Mr. Moore's Email
Friday, August 30, 2019


Current Work: Writing Task
Show me you can write expressive, descriptive pieces, following specific formatting instructions and conventional use of spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar and paragraphing.

Students are required to use Microsoft Word for class submissions. (Adobe pdf's and Macintosh .Pages files are not compatible with school technology and will not be accepted.) Microsoft Word is available free of charge for all UCDSB students. Failing that, please install Open Office and "Save As" .docx


Past Work
 
Sept 13
Personal Writing #1
Submit your first original, informal writing piece to Turn It In, using prescribed format #1. The three-part story structure and Personal Writing Guide will help make this story interesting. Try for 1.5 to 2 pages in length. Demonstrate consistent verb tenses, and proper punctuation, capitalization and paragraphing. Expressive and personal writing only. Be descriptive, colourful and interesting. (no informational pieces. No essays. No journalism)
Sept 20
Personal Writing #2
Submit your second original, informal writing piece to Turn It In, using prescribed format #2. This format will make your story look just like an essay, but do not actually write an essay. Write a story. The three-part story structure and Personal Writing Guide will help make this story interesting. Try for 1.5 to 2 pages in length, doubling that length for the double-spaced format #2 piece. Demonstrate consistent verb tenses, and proper punctuation, capitalization and paragraphing. Informal and personal writing only. Be descriptive, colourful and interesting. (no informational pieces. No essays. No journalism)
Sept 20
Personal Writing #3
Submit your third original, informal writing piece to Turn It In, using prescribed format #3. The three-part story structure and Personal Writing Guide will help make this story interesting. Try for 1.5 to 2 pages in length. Demonstrate consistent verb tenses, and proper punctuation, capitalization and paragraphing. Informal and personal writing only. Be descriptive, colourful and interesting. (no informational pieces. No essays. No journalism)
Oct 4
Fill-In-The-Blank Essay
Using the essay template, write an essay on a non-school topic. Retain all of the essay formatting and the wording I have given you, filling in the blanks and completing my sentences. Avoid every single of the twenty problems outlined on the Stop! Sheet. Include a partner's name on the essay when submitting it to Turn It In. Your partner's job is to point out if you have lost the essay formatting anywhere, not retained my wording, or done anything you were asked not to do on the Stop! Sheet.
Oct 11
Short Fiction #1
Short Fiction #1: Follow these instructions perfectly, and submit your work to Turn It In, using prescribed format #3. Some reading choices are here...
Oct 11
Short Fiction #2 and #3.
Short Fiction #2: Follow these same instructions perfectly, and submit your work to Turn It In, using prescribed format #3.
Short Fiction #3: Follow these same instructions perfectly, and submit your work to Turn It In, using prescribed format #3. Make sure you haven't read three stories by the same author or of the same kind. Avoid choosing only the shortest stories.
October 18
The Loser Story The Loser Story: Follow these different instructions perfectly for the story you are going to criticize, and submit your work to Turn It In, using prescribed format #2.
Make sure you have read at least three authors.
TBD
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
 Find elements from The Odyssey in O Brother, Where Art Thou? Follow these instructions. Use format #3.
TBD
Lord of the Flies chapter work
Handwrite about a page per chapter, following these instructions exactly.
Show me you can correctly quote directly from the book, using the literary language I have created for you.
TBD
Personal News: My December
 Show me you can still format a story and use proper capitalization, spell check, punctuation and paragraphing. Follow these instructions. Use the skills you learned in September. Use format #1with columns.