How about
Becoming a Good Extreme Sentence Surgeon ?
Do you have what it
takes to become an Extreme Sentence Surgeon? Your paragraph surgery skills will be put to the test as critically injured
paragraphs enter your emergency room. Their injuries are significant: poor
spelling, no punctuation, wrong word usage, and much more.
It will be
gruesome. Use your superior skills to fix the bad spelling words, add commas,
capital letters, periods, apostrophes, and change words used incorrectly. The
paragraphs are counting on you. Be careful, though. You only get three
incorrect fixes before your paragraph dies.
You must
completely fix two paragraphs before earning your Ph.D in extreme
sentence surgery.
Good Luck! Click on
the words that need to be fixed and edit them. Use the link below to play the game
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Type or handwrite your work. Once you have finished, turn it in to your teacher.
Mystery Time!
Mystery writers know the answers to questions such as: Who did it? What
was the strange noise in the night? Will the detective find the scoundrel? Who
has been pursuing our hero and why?
An observant reader can sometimes figure out the mystery before finishing
the story. In fact, if the ending is a complete surprise, the writer has not
done a good job! After finishing the story, the reader should be able to go
back through the story and find clues that hinted at the solution.
- Now read the following beginning of a mystery story:
1. Who
is the old woman?
2. What does she tell Sylvia
about the origins of the ring?
3. Is she telling the truth about the ring?
4. If so, what happens next?
5. If not, what happens next?
6. Will Sylvia’s friend Marcy
have anything to do with the rest of
the story?
7. If not, why not? If
so, what will Marcy do?
- Use your answers to write the rest of the story.
When you are finished, make up
a catchy title for your story and hand in your work (answers to questions + story ending) to your teacher.
CATCHY
TITLE: ______________________________________
Now that’s a very unusual ring,” the woman went on.
“Why, that ring came from...
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