If everyone in your class began teasing and picking on your best friend, and you know that if you stayed friends everyone would start picking on you, would you stay friends? Why or why not? (a.l.5)

Describe the fog outside. Use five senses (Sight/touch especially), sentence variety and a simile (onomatopoeia if possible). 6-7 Sentences

TIME FOR KIDS’S first Spotlight on Service volunteer, Laura White, 17, is making a big splash in Atlanta, Georgia. Her organization, Wild and Water, teaches local kids how to swim. When Laura was 15, she volunteered to go on a camping trip with some of the area’s underprivileged children. During an outing to the lake, several campers who couldn’t swim ran into the water. Laura, a former competitive swimmer, helped five struggling kids to safety. “It was crazy,” she told TFK. Soon after, the teen started Wild and Water. In addition to receiving swimming lessons from the group’s volunteer instructors, kids are also taught how to be safe around water. So far, Wild and Water has worked with 115 kids in Atlanta. There are also plans to expand to other cities, including Savannah, Georgia, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Seeing the kids’ excitement and watching the program grow “is a feeling you can’t describe,” says Laura.

Create a graphic organizer (UMBRELLA) and summarize the article above. Make sure to paraphrase (use your own words/don’t copy). 

If you woke up tomorrow and by magic were already grown-up and had kids of your own, how would treat them differently from the way your parents treat you? Why would you treat them differently?

Describe today’s weather in detail. Use sentence variety, five senses, onomatopoeia, and a simile or two.

Describe a memorable to time when you opened a gift. If it was the best gift ever or the worst, use sentence variety, the five senses, similies, onomatopoieas, adjectives, and adverbs to write a 9-10 sentence paragraph.

What is like to shop during the month of December? Remember to use sentence variety, five senses, similes, descriptive adjectives and adverbs, etc. 

What are you most proud of? What would make you more proud?

If eating nothing but a tasteless food paste for a year would make you stronger and more attractive, would you do it? Why?

Describe what it’s like to stand outside in line before the school bell rings. Use sentence variety, five senses, a simile, and an onomatopoeia.