FEAR Anthology - Contents

FEAR ANTHOLOGY CONTENTS:
1) A Cover Page
- includes title, name, date, class

2) Awake Dream
- Revised copy

3) Fear Poems
- At least 4 poems, in 3 or more formats

4) Artistic Response to one of the short stories read in class
- A piece of visual art depicting scenes or themes. Any medium (pastel, charcoal, paint, collage, coloured pencil etc.)

5) A timeline of one of the short stories
- A list of main events from the story in chronological order

6) A suspenseful short story (Extension possible to Wed Mar 31st, 10% bonus if submit by March 10th)
- An original short story involving fear or suspense (300-1000 words)

**NEW** DUE DATE: Thursday March 11th in class

Spelling/Vocabulary deadlines changed

The Spelling & Vocabulary test scheduled for Tuesday Feb 16th will be moved to the next Day 3, Thursday February 25th. Sentences and definitions will be checked by Ms. Gesner Wednesday February 24th (Day 2).

5 days left to earn bonus points for Term 2

Want bonus points for Reading? Finish Reading your Red Maple books and post a reaction to the Red Maple website.

http://winonaredmaple.pbworks.com/

2% Bonus per book read and posted on the blog before Tuesday Feb 9th; 9pm (up to a maximum of 10%).

No blog post = No points. Deadline is final. Happy Reading!



Interested in bonus points for WRITING? Come play Scrabble, Wednesday and/or Thursday at lunch in Room 11.

Up to 5% bonus based on attendance up to Feb 10th.

List 9 Spelling and Vocabulary

List 9 Spelling and Vocabulary

Sentences and definitions due: Friday February 12th (Day 2)

Test: Tuesday February 16th (Day 3, the day after Family Day)



For each word provide:

1. Word function (noun, adjective, verb etc.)

2. A Definition that you understand
Try http://www.wordreference.com/ "English Only"

3. A sentence.

HINT: All of the words come from the short stories in your FEAR duotangs. You can use these sentences but be sure you use quotation marks to show that you are quoting.
The Tell-Tale Heart: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/POE/telltale.html
The Monkey’s Paw: http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/mnkyspaw.htm


1. acute
2. foresight
3. sagacity (think sage)
4. stifle
5. fury
6. shriek (noun and verb)
7. vehemently
8. hypocritical
9. sinister
10. wail (noun and verb)

Wed Jan 27th - You should be working on...

1) Editing AWAKE DREAM for Content & Mechanics.
Content - Does my writing get straight to the point and stay focused? (no jumping around)
Mechanics -
a) Choose a consistent verb tense (present or past)
I walk, I look, I see
I walked, I looked, I saw
b) Check for RUN-ON SENTENCES (too many verbs) & SENTENCE FRAGMENTS (no verb)
c) Check punctuation, especially in dialog. Rules for quotation marks etc.:
http://fictionwriting.about.com/od/writingexercises/qt/punctuation.htm

2) Drafting quality poetry on the subject of FEAR - You will eventually need at least 4 different poems in 3 or more formats. **Minimum 2 poems due Friday**
Sol poetry magazine gives you guidelines for 45 possible formats including Haiku, Diamante, Found, Free Verse, Wave, Limerick and Cinquain at:
http://pages.prodigy.net/sol.magazine/pl01form.htm

You can also try TWITTER POETRY - Free verse poetry using no more than 140 characters (use the Word Count function in the Tools menu of Microsoft Word)

TWIHAIKU - Same as above, but 5 syllables / 7 syllables / 5 syllables
http://twitter.com/HAIKU


3) Spelling List 8 Sentences & Definitions. (Due next Wednesday, Feb 3rd)
http://www.askoxford.com/


4) Begin working on a suspenseful short story.


DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START?? WORDS THAT YOU SAID EVOKE FEAR: Snakes, Clowns, Light at the end of the tunnel, Spiders, Monsters, Loneliness, Being buried alive, Dogs, Axe-Murderers, Blood, Spirits/Poltergeists, Pigs, Insects, Ventriloquist Dummies, Toe Jam and more...

LIST 8 SPELLING AND VOCABULARY

For each word list provide
a) the part of speech (ex. noun, verb, adverb, adjective)
b) a definition that you understand
c) a sentence

1.hoping 2.hopping 3.writing 4.creepy 5.petrified 6.goblin 7.warlock
8.horrifying 9.frightening 10.cadaver

Spelling Test Friday. 40 words, no definitions.

Graded List: reason, perfect, friend, getting, nearly, desire, arrange, written, search, popular, interest, pleasant, therefore, folks, celebration, minute, divide, necessary, height, reference, career, character, separate, committee, annual, principle, immense, judg(e)ment, acquaintance, discipline, lieutenant
Term 1 Review: Session, parallel, physician, pneumonia, existence, thwart, typify, onomatopoeia, banshee, kerosene.