SENIORS: Today's writing exercise dealt with Prose Rhythm.  The length of your sentences can have an emotional effect on your reader.  Short, choppy sentences create a feeling of movement, action, tension, anxiety, and that things are getting faster.  Long sentences slow things down and give a relaxing quality or a feeling that something is happening gradually.  In your notebook, titled Prose Rhythm, write two pieces of fiction, one that has choppy sentences and one that has long sentences.  Both of these writing exercises together should take about a half a page. Don't forget to bring your notebook, as I will be collecting them for a notebook check at the end of the period.

SOPHOMORES: We did a multiple choice, fill in the blank diagnostic about expository writing.  Just what DO you remember from 9th grade? :)