Reading Assignment: pages 92-129 in Charlotte's Web
Writing Assignment: We have talked about a long list of words, which I will send you via e-mail. On a website dedicated to vocabulary improvement, they suggest that to learn new words like the ones on our list, you should find a rhyme for them. The pattern they provide goes like this: Introduce the word at the end of a brief sentence; define it in the second line, then add a third line that rhymes. So here's an example:
Spiders are very sedentary.
They don't move around much.
It's probably hereditary. *
Please write two rhymes using two different words from the list I send you. The list will only contain definitions if we haven't discussed the definition in class. Overall, you will be supplying the definitions for the rhymes.
If that seems too hard--I'm actually not sure how hard it is for a non-native speaker-- then complete this assignment: Write a description of the perfect friend (at least from your point of view). How would that person behave? What would he or she like? How would that person behave toward you. Please be conscious of how you use transitions to move from sentence to sentence.
*hereditary: inborn, arrives with you at birth, inherited.
