Sentence Modelling

She had been dreaming about a squirrel. In her dream, he was flying with his legs straight out in front of him and his tail straight out behind him.  He was a squirrel on his way to save someone!  He looked supremely, magnificently heroic.

Flora & Ulysses by Kate Dicamillo

When do I italicize?

http://www.kcitraining.com/styleguide/book/itals.html
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k70847&pageid=icb.page363226

Sentence Modeling

"The moon was a thin, bright machete cutting its way through patches of clouds."


- In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez, Page 89.

Proper Citation

A week in the life....

Diary Entry for a Main Character 
 Imagine you are the main character in your book. Write a diary entry for 7 days. Each entry must be at least one page long with 5-7 sentences per paragraph.

Sentence Modelling

Subsitute the words in red.  Write your new sentence(s) in your notebook.  Post your favourite one.

With a grin and a giggle, a hug and a whistle, we'd slap our knees and Mama would say: 'Bless the world it feels like a tip-tapping song-singing finger-snapping kind of day. Let's celebrate!' And so we did.

Libba Moore, My Mama had a Dancing Heart, p.2

Sentence Modelling

"My name is India Opal Buloni, and last summer my daddy, the preacher, sent me to the store for a box of macaroni-and-cheese, some white rice, and two tomatoes and I came back with a dog."

Opening sentence to Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo