Learn More About Advertising

Visit these sites and write down three things you learn about how advertisers persuade you to buy their products.  Write down your notes on a piece of paper.  If there is time, you can then write them in the comments section:

Don’t Buy It!

See How You Get Hooked Into Buying Now!

You Are Here

CoCo Adversmarts (this one lets you create your own advertisement.  After you make it, please print it out)

Admongo

Ad Decoder

Exercises For Problem/Solution Essay Writing

Try these writing activities and games. If the first ones are too easy, try the next one. Each one gets a little harder.

Five minutes before class ends, please leave a comment saying which activity you liked the best and why:

“I liked ______________ the best because ________________________.”

The New News

The New News 2

The New News 3

Bitesize 2 Writing

Making Sentences

Bitesize 3 Writing — Here, do everything that is labeled “Activity.” Be sure to turn-on the subtitles so you can read what is being spoken.

Virtual Traveler

Writing Tutorials

Proofreading: Spelling and Writing

Complete this activity and print it out.

Describe How You Will Write Your Auto-I

Go to Fotobabble, pick a picture of yourself writing from this photos, and describe how you will write your Autobiographical Incident essay.

Here’s the “cloze” you can use to help you with the description:

Tomorrow, I will begin writing my Autobiographical __________ Essay. I will start my essay with a ____________. Then I will describe the ___________ and the __________ . I will use __________ details to describe where the incident happened and who was there. Then I will explain what happened and use __________ to tell the story. I will describe how I was feeling back __________. In my conclusion, I will describe my feelings _________ and I will explain __________ I learned.

Please leave a link to your description in the comments section of this post.

Practicing Adjectives

Do these activities and write down the adjectives that you learn:

Describing Words

Using Adjectives

Finding Adjectives

Practice With Adjectives

All About Adjectives

The Adjective Detective

Grammar Blast: Adjectives

Adjectives Quiz

People Adjectives

Choosing Adjectives

Identifying Adjectives

BBC Skillwise: Adjectives

Enchanted Learning: Adjectives

Mrs. Haquet from Frenchfrog’s Little English Pond has developed another great interactive. This one is on Physical Descriptions.

Feelings Words

Go to the links below.

On a sheet of paper, please write down all the feelings words that you learn.

Emotion Theater

Feelings

Feelings
More Feelings

About Face

Mood Maker

Feelings Puzzle

Feelings Game

Your Feelings

Feelings Audio Game

Puppet Personalities

Puppet Personalities 2

Match the Feelings

More Feelings and Emotions

After you have made your list, type the words into these sites. It will show you other similar words. Add ones that you understand to your list:

Lexipedia

Visuwords

Snappy Words