Cave Writing

Bell-Ringer:  Work more on the brief story you are writing based on words from the word bank. Use wonderful words and eliminate dead words!...

Your scary stories -- finished, revised, edited-- ready to share -- are due by October 22.  We will be able to use the computer lab October ...

October 31, 2007 Happy Halloween! Students wrote a description of the Haunted Mansion Ride, and a description of a candy corn. We spent the ...

October 25, 2007 The self-starter was writing a poem or brief story in response to a painting, using effective description. Students could ...

October 23, 2007 Students described thoroughly the objects they received (jelly bellys) -- sight, smell, taste, touch/texture, sound Story s...

October 17, 2007 Students wrote brief scary stories in response to black and white photos. We discussed what makes it easy to write bad fict...