Sunday, August 31, 2008
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Descriptive Writing
We are learnig how to write a descriptive paper in English class. We have learned about vivid verbs, showing not telling our reader, capitalization and punctuation, and formatting our paper.
Our target skills are:
Our target skills are:
- writing a title
- capitalizing the words in the title
- beginning with a "hook"
- indenting each paragraph 2 finger spaces
- capitalizing the first word of each sentence
- using proper punctuation
- using vivid verbs
- showing not telling our reader
- concluding with a good take-away ending such as "This reminds me of ..."
I would like you to post your best work to this blog. We will help you fine tune your paper.
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