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=Independent Reading Time (25 minutes)=

=Reading Assessment: //Regret// by Kate Chopin=
 * Input your multiple-choice answers HERE.
 * Write your Open Response on the paper.

Mini Lesson--4 Easy Style Tools to Make Your Writing Pop!
>> || fear || Shards of glass littered pavement || >> || relief || My flipflop in a pool of blood beneath her hair || >> || terror || frozen || Like the hands of ancient clock—unable to move || >> || guilt || Sirens/horns blaring || >>
 * Mrs. Huff tells story of near-death experience in Chicago.
 * Writing Topic: Describe a memorable event that had an impact on you.
 * Writer's Notebook: Brainstorm list of events.
 * On note card--create three column chart and pre-write (generate ideas!)
 * Model: My chart
 * || **What is emotion?** || **Details?** || **Emotion like? Reminds you of?** ||
 * Write paragraph that incorporates at least FOUR Writer's Tricks to make your writing POP!
 * Similes
 * Sensory Details
 * Intentional Fragments
 * Rhetorical Questions
 * Mrs. Huff's first draft of paragraph:
 * The black SUV barreled through the stoplight, slamming into the taxi. Time seemed to stop. Silence gripped me in an icy embrace. I was frozen like the hands of an ancient clock, unable to move. Suddenly, time resumed, sirens and horns and gasps and screams bringing me back to life, to my flipflop that now sprawled in a pool of blood seeping from her head. Oh my gosh. Moments before she had been standing in front of me. Now, she lay lifeless on the pavement. Isn’t it ironic how we can be laughing one moment, carefree, and the next, gasping for our last breath?