Category: ELA – Writing

Today we covered quotations as we prepare for your 2nd paragraph in our persuasive writing unit which will be about customer testimonials.

Watch the videos to refresh your memory. Remember the steps:

1. Identify the speaker tag
2. Check if the remaining dialogue makes sense
3. Add quotation marks around the dialogue
4. Add punctuation to separate the dialogue from the speaker tag
5. Keep in mind capitals in the appropriate places

Our class notes from today, including some samples AND HOMEWORK (on the back side – 2nd picture)

Please see the instructions below. The key to success is written in RED.

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This term, we will investigate persuasive writing with a twist. We are going to explore advertisements and commercials.

To begin: Please watch the following advertisements. Notice the differences.

• Video 1: BCSPCA
• Video 2: Shamwow!

Did you notice any advertisement techniques that made you feel sad? Enthusiastic? In the coming weeks, we will investigate more about these techniques.

In the meantime, it’s time to begin brainstorming and designing your own product. Use the following document to guide your design process.

Criteria:

• Come up with a fun name for your product
• You will eventually make your product out of cardboard and real life materials. Your product must be smaller than the size of a library return bin.
• Your design must have at least 5 features.

Please see the picture below for an example of a Test Taking Pencil.

Document for you to work on: 

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First assignment of the year! Please write a 3 paragraph letter to yourself. This letter will be returned to you at the end of the school year. It’ll be fun and probably cringey to read.

Please remember to…

• Set up your page properly.
• Title (Letter to Self) capitalized
• Write on the correct orientation on your lined sheet of paper.
• Focus on capitals and punctuation
• ALL OF THIS determines what our mornings look like to start our days at 9:00-9:20.

See the picture below for what each paragraph should be about:

Here’s my sample:

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Click here to see the samples of our newspapers this year.

https://sd41-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/e21109_burnabyschools_ca/EsoVjq9NOMpGkCM9I7kFhfIBV4Sqk2HoYBvzFG4F1WPd8w?e=SHn7ka 

Use the following notes we wrote up to write a 5 paragraph essay about the following prompt: Would you rather have mustard coming out of your belly button or ketchup come out of your nostrils for the rest of your life?

See the picture below for the expectations of your formatting for your newspaper articles. DETAILS MATTER!

Please see the criteria and sample below: