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Using adjectives, write about your monster that you drew.

Students are required to write a persuasive letter to the leader of their country in order to build their new cities.

Using grid paper students created a city consisting of 10 or more buildings. Using their mathematical knowledge students calculated the perimeter and area of each of their city buildings using the formulas previously taught and learned.

Students will write a 3-5 minute speech to present in class. Speech is to entertain, persuade or inform.

Students write a procedure passage, explaining their magic potion recipe, using transitional words.

Students must create a map of the North Pole for the elves. The map must include two parallel streets and 2 perpendicular streets to those. Various polygons, quadrilaterals and details as described in the instructions.

Students will choose a specific topic to write a reverse poem. The students will create a poem that contains 6 lines minimum. On the border around the poem, the student will create symbols that represent their poem.

Upon completion of in-class practice of personification of inanimate objects and writing about it in the form of a story, the learner will be able to effectively write a story from the perspective of a classroom inanimate object.

Create a menu. You must give your restaurant a name and create the menu. The menu should include at least five complete choices for each of the sections of the menu: appetizers, entrees, kids menu and desserts. The menu should be visually pleasing with easily identifiable headings, prices, and pictures. Each food item must have 2-4 sentences with minimum of 4 adjectives each.

Students will compose a speech as one of the characters from one of the epics that we are studying (Beowulf, The Iliad, and The Odyssey). Student’s speeches must have a theme or focus that is relevant to the epic they choose. Themes must be reinforced throughout the speech and the climax of the speech must be both intriguing and thought provoking. Students will be graded on theme, theme reinforcing methods, and the strength of the climax of the speech.

Here are some criteria and suggestions for the comic strip: Think of a story line before you do anything else. Planning is important. Write a title for your comic strip. Have a main character. Make at least five pictures or scenes. Include your vocabulary words. Include at least 5. Make sure that your pictures and actions make sense with your chosen vocabulary words.

Write a meaningful thank you letter to the family, and one to the slave. Based on the book UNSPOKEN.

Students are to create a movement routine in partners that shows a minimum of 7 different movements, as well as responding to the music heard in the song. The routine needs to have two different, but noticeable, movement sections and a tableau pose for the ending. Students will apply the creative process to the composition of movement pieces, using the elements of exercise and music to communicate feelings (facial expression) and ideas.

Students will be evaluated on the following criteria; Answers the 5 W's Report flows, Speaks clearly, Eye Contact - focused on audience, Correct Grammar, Clarity - Audible, Intro and exit music with name credits

Rubric to use with "Reporting Live " lesson plan.

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The student will use main ideas and events from the story to summarize and shorten it by 60-80%.