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Students had to take five simple sentences and use their knowledge of how word choice and repetition affect mood, to create complex sentences with a defined tone and mood.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.7.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.

Students use Rachel Carson's "Fable for Tomorrow," found in her 1964 book Silent Spring, as a model. Students choose one topic from a list of ten and write their own fable, organized according to the four rhetorical elements of an argument: thesis, purpose, technique, and audience. Students address their peers and future generations of high school students in a narrative that may be humorous, satirical, or serious, and that either informs, entertains, or educates.

Write a fable (a fiction narrative) that illustrates a particular moral using imagined characters and events. Your fable should demonstrate what you have learned about characterization, character development, and how plot unfolds in a series of episodes.

This is a general rubric tha might be used to assess a Glogster project on any topic and for the students to use as a guide when completing their Glogster assignments. How would your Glog measure up? From EDU GLOGSTER educator resource guide

Students are to collect information about their assigned composer and present it to the class through a power point presentation.

Students are to collect information about their assigned composer and present it to the class through a power point presentation.

Use with House on Mango Street "Louie, His Cousin & His Other Cousin" chapter

Each group will write a script that highlights the main ideas from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart". The groups will then act out the scripts in order to teach the class about point of view and main details they used in the story.

Rewrite the story as a picture book for young children. Use simple language and include images appropriate for young readers. Your story should be at least twenty pages long and fit with the characters, theme, and plot portrayed in the book.

Please use this rubric to help guide your Edmodo discussion posts.

Based on this rubric, your knowledge of children's stories, and your knowledge of what makes a children's story effective, grade your peers' story!

Students made a baseball card after following a particular player at a Redhawks baseball game field trip. Those who were not on the trip were given a player to look up and complete the same assignment. Aside from making a card they had to turn in the note card that they used. They were to get additional information from the following website, www.oklahomacity.redhawks.mlb.com.