Handouts for French Revolution Part 1

Here are the first 3 handouts for the French Revolution. I will add the rest as we go.

Link to French Revolution handouts

Handouts for English Civil War

If you have lost your notes sheets and need them to study, here are the ones from the English Civil War.

Link to Civil War handouts

Resilience Reader Responses

The following activity will be used for our resilience reader during silent reading on most days. Please follow the instructions in the doc.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dv08GOzFTIkCifUx-4P_R963XvzmUETn5QFuRqN1TE4/edit?usp=sharing

You will hand in a paper copy of the work you do for this activity. It will be due at the start of class the day after the assigned reading.

Contact Sheet for Grade 3 Art

Please look at the contact sheet for the grade 3 art.

Contact Sheet Link

Tuesday 

Complete a storyboard for your book. The starred areas need to be complete. You do not have to copy out the full text for each square. You have two choices:

1. You print off your story. Using 2+ different colours, alternate underlining what goes on each page.
2. Make a copy of your story in your assignment folder. Divide up using enter to show what is on each page. Print this out and hand it in with your storyboard.

Your pictures in your storyboard should show a rough idea of what will be in each picture. Please write the number of the image you want to use in the text box area.

This should be done for homework if not finished in class.

Here is a good website telling you how to select an image in GIMP

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Changing_Background_Color_2/

Short Story Elements

These are the short story elements we will use in our stories.

Literary Devices

Alliteration: the repetition of the same sound at the start of several words. For example, “my mother makes marvelous muffins.”

Imagery: descriptive language involving multiple senses to make a word picture. For example, “The sharp crack of the frost shattered the inky night air.”

Irony: when a statement or situation means something different from (or even opposite of) what is expected.

Metaphor: an implied comparison of two things that are not alike. The comparison suggests that they do share a common quality. For example, “Her words were a knife to my heart.”

Mood: The feeling that the author wants the reader to have.

Onomatopoeia: words that imitate sounds. For example, Bang!

Oxymoron: a device that combines contradictory words for dramatic effect, for example, jumbo shrimp.

Personification: When objects, ideas, or animals are given human qualities. For example, “The sun smiled down on me.”

Simile: A direct comparison between unlike things using the word “like” or “as” to connect them. For example, “Potatoes are like apples of the earth.”

Stereotypes: an oversimplified picture, usually of a group of people, giving them all a set of characteristics, without consideration of individual differences.

Tone: The writer’s attitude towards the subject or the audience.

Persuasive Essay Format

This is the format we have decided to use:

http://www.professays.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Persuasive_essay_format.jpg

This is the format of the essay in general terms:

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