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Language Arts Paragraph  **Use this pdf file to help you write your paragraph for this assignment. **

Business Letter Here is an example of what a lettercould look like.

Now it is time for you to write your first paper! The **MONSTER ** essay Think of the types of monsters that you know from literature, comics, cartoons, and trading-card games. Then generate a list of descriptive words and phrases to describe them. Using that list of idea, begin brainstorming an idea for an original monster of your own design. Be as creative and imaginative as possible. Make the monster yours. Think of exactly how it will look, smell, act, and even taste. Think about where it lives and what that is like. How does it attack or defend itself. What does it do when confronted with people or other monsters? How does it make more monsters? Once you get a good idea of your monster (you can use this link to get some ideas), use this template to create a monster trading card. Here is an example. Try using "powerful," vivid language to describe your creature. Use descriptive imagery and word choice and combine that with visual elements to make a monster never before imagined. Then describe your monster fully in 5 paragraph essay. Note Taking

You will start by taking notes so that you know what you are going to write about. In this assignment, find articles, books, or magazines in your local library or online to use that will help you get an idea of what you want your monster to be. For each source you find, you will create a note card that looks like this. media type="youtube" key="ngK_9cromhQ?hl=en" height="344" width="425"

Outline <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Now move on to your outline. An outline helps you put everything in its correct place. Once you have the notes you need to figure out what your monster will be, fill out this form to help you put the information your found and decided to use to build your outline. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;">media type="youtube" key="EiOuqwgXqAM?hl=en" height="344" width="425" media type="youtube" key="J4EsmiL3Zfs?hl=en" height="344" width="425"

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;">media type="youtube" key="6TpoEGhx7t8?hl=en" height="344" width="425" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Once your outline is done, your paper is basically written. Now all you have to do is put that information in paragraphs. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">media type="youtube" key="andfAFtoK3w?hl=en" height="344" width="425"

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 300%;">Final Report <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Now it is time to write your essay. For each part of your outline, write one full sentence. Then, put all of the sentence together and read your essay out loud to someone else. Look over your essay and make sure that you correct spelling and grammar errors, and make sure that it sounds good and makes sense. Use the example and the worksheet below to help you make your essay great. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Once your rough draft is exactly the way you want it, email it to me. I will give you comments how to make your essay better. Read my comments and edit your essay. You can have your family or a friend help. Last, write a final draft with no errors and email it to me. I will post your final grade to the assignment listed above on Odyssey.



<span style="color: #3fe23f; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Want some extra credit? How about making a wanted poster for your monster. It can be a digital poster or on poster board. Use the software on my tech links page to get started and get ideas. Your poster should look something like this.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 300%;">Advertisement <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Create a product and make an ad to sell your product to the public. Be creative. Humor always helps.



<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 300%;">Propaganda <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">For this assignment, do not use the directions listed on Odyssey. I have a better idea for you. Let's discuss the word that all students dread to hear: HOMEWORK! Why do teachers give homework? Is it really necessary? Take a look at the Homework page and get some perspective. Then, think of reasons why homework should be banished from schools. Use this topic and these ideas to write a persuasive essay explaining why homework should never be allowed in schools. Use the pdf files below to help you write your paper. You will do a Brainstorm, an Outline, a Rough Draft, the Edit Worksheet, and a Final Draft for this assignment.
 * <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">To further help you with this assignment, you need to understand the types of propaganda used. Watch this short video and get an idea of how propaganda is used in our world: ** media type="youtube" key="TD4a4u9AbZA?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 300%;">Persuasive Oral Presentation <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">media type="custom" key="9246984" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">You are now going to take the essay you have written in the previous project and unit and turn it into a three to five-minute speech by creating a podcast. You could also create a propaganda film instead of speech if you would like. That would also be accepted instead of doing a speech. You could join the two ideas and create a digital story like you did for the All About You project and present your speech with pictures to make your points. If you are unfamiliar with what a podcast is, use this link to familiarize yourself. To create your podcast presentation, you can download (which you might need help to do) and use Audacity or any recording software of your own. Once you have recorded your speech, create a Podbean account and post your speech to your new account as a podcast. Make sure you check out each of these help files to learn how it is done: **<span style="color: #ff5800; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Audacity Tutorials ** **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Podbean Quickstart Userguide **
 * <span style="color: #642b2b; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">VoiceThread Guide **