Unit 9 Vocab Relationships Open on Edmodo along with the vocab list!

Instructions: Describe what is ALIKE or DIFFERENT for the following pairs of words. Benign/Foible: These are similar in the sense that some see kindness as a weakness, and in a fight, a benign persons harmlessness would also be their foible. Forgo/Fraught:

WRITE YOUR TALE! Consider some of the following ideas:

Include specific detail and descriptive imagery to help your reader imagine who, what, where, and when

VAGUE and BORING: R was a cute girl in a red hoodie. SPECIFIC: People stopped in their tracks when they saw R sauntering by in the stoplight red American Apparel hoodie shed gotten as a birthday gift from her granny.

 Incorporate occasional dialogue to make it more interesting/realistic Show the reader what the characters are thinking to help them understand why

Move faster over the more boring parts and spend more time/words elaborating on the interesting parts

The Little Girl and the Wolf by James Thurber

One afternoon a big wolf waited in a dark forest for a little girl to come along carrying a basket of food to her grandmother. Finally a little girl did come along and she was carrying a basket of food. "Are you carrying that basket to your grandmother?" asked the wolf. The little girl said yes, she was. So the wolf asked her where her grandmother lived and the little girl told him and he disappeared into the wood.
When the little girl opened the door of her grandmother's house she saw that there was somebody in bed with a nightcap and nightgown on. She had approached no nearer than twenty-five feet from the bed when she saw that it was not her grandmother but the wolf, for even in a nightcap a wolf does not look any more like your grandmother than the Metro-Goldwyn lion looks like Calvin Coolidge. So the little girl took an automatic out of her basket and shot the wolf dead. (Moral: It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be.)

BRING A FINISHED DRAFT TO CLASS TOMORROW!

We will do peer editing and reflections, then you may share your revision for extra credit