Homework
- Writing Minutes
- Freewriting (the skeleton in the class)
- Use the humor style points (exaggeration, humorous imagery, and silly simile) in a humorous essay. You may choose to add these to an existing essay or create a new essay.
- Continue working on your mystery
Homework
- Writing Minutes
- Complete Humorous Essay
- Compile humorous Top-10 list
- Develop the character of each of your suspects. You’ll need around 12 suspects in order to create enough misdirection, but not so many that your reader can’t keep track of them all .
Homework
- Writing Minutes
- Humorous Essay
- Use your humor elements (Incongruity, Superiority, and Relief)
- Try to hand it in by next week. BUT next week’s assignment will be shorter, so if you need extra time, it will be available. Don’t use more than two weeks, though, or you’ll begin to fall behind!
- While you’ll only receive one grade (the 6-trait), you still need to include dress-ups and openers…for now. Use the checklist below to help you. Lydia, Nate, and Tessa, you three only need to have the first three dress-ups (strong verb, quality adjective, and adverb) in each paragraph.
- Your mystery. Choose a crime. Think about why and how it was committed. Begin thinking about and creating characters. We’ll spend more time on this next week!
Homework
- Writing Minutes
- Mystery brainstorming
- Write an essay about your summer (This can be fiction or non-fiction, serious or humorous!)
