1. Comma worksheet. Try to print the short story
Comma worksheet. Try to print the short story. Try to print those simple and compound worksheets.

2. Formal; Comma; Script; Succinct; Conventions
How do I use a comma?
In your groups, I want you to create a brainstorm about how to use a comma.
Success criteria for your brainstorm:
Clearly describe the uses of a comma in point form.
Provide examples of how to use a comma.
Common mistakes people make.
How do you I use a comma?
Leader
Manager
Note Maker
Reporter
Supporter
Formal; Comma; Script; Succinct; Conventions

3. When do I use a comma? To know what commas are.
To understand the importance commas are in conveying meaning.
To be able to correct and revise sentences that need commas.

8. Formal; Comma; Script; Succinct; Conventions
To know what is a run-on and complete sentence.
To understand the components of a complete sentence and when there is a run-on sentence.
We are going to read through the uses of a comma in more detail.
Then you will work on a worksheet.
I have to make sure you know your grammar before we start writing essays!
Formal; Comma; Script; Succinct; Conventions

9. In your groups, you will re-write this paragraph so that there are no run-on sentences. You can use simple, compound and complex sentences.
Well to start with my hair looked terrible and then the science teacher called on me to give my oral report and I was counting on having another day at least to get ready for it and when I got to English class I realized I had left my purse in science class and I didn’t have time to go back and get it and to top it off Mrs. Edmunds gave us a surprise quiz on our reading assignments.

10. Similes and Metaphors OBJECTIVES: Define a simile and a metaphor
Understand the purpose of similes and metaphors
Explore similes and metaphors in literature and music
Create your own similes and metaphors

11. Definition of Simile
A simile is a comparison of two unlike things using ‘like’ or ‘as’
What are the purposes of writing simile?
Authors use simile to explain, express emotion, and to make their writing more vivid and entertaining

12. Simile: Examples The night was as black as coal.
The paper is as light as a feather.
The ocean was a raging bull.
Her eyes shone like stars in the night sky.
The horse moved with lightning speed.
created by Dianne St Clair

13. Simile in Poetry “O my luve's like a red, red rose.
That's newly sprung in June;
O my luve's like a melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune.”
excerpt from A Red, Red Rose
by Robert Burns
Challenge:
Could you explain in your groups what this poet is trying to say in simple English (prose)? (2-min)

14. Similes in Literature
“In the eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug laid for the feet of the coming sun...”
The Red Badge Of Courage
by Stephen Crane
“The café was like a battleship stripped for action.”
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
“She is, as sailors say, like a lady's watch, always out of repair.”
Two Years Before The Mast
by Richard Henry Dana Jr.

15. Simile: More Examples! For more examples of simile .
created by Dianne St Clair

16. Definition of Metaphor
A metaphor is a comparison that says one thing is something else.
Literally, it is not!
Her laugther is a gentle song.
Metaphors are similar to similes, but make a comparison instead of actually suggesting that two things are essentially the same.
created by Dianne St Clair

17. Examples of Metaphors She is sunshine, brightening our day
A blank page is a playground for imagination
The melody is a balm to my soul.
The wheels of justice turn slowly.
His cotton candy words did not appeal to
her taste.
Challenge:
Could you explain in your groups what these sentences are trying to say in simple English (prose)? (2-min)
created by Dianne St Clair

18. Metaphor in Poetry "The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.“
Fog
by Carl Sandburg

19. Metaphor in Poetry "Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility."...
extract from 'Because I could not stop for Death‘
by Emily Dickenson

20. Metaphor in Literature
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
As You Like It
— William Shakespeare, As You Like It
This quote is a metaphor because the world is not literally a stage. By figuratively asserting that the world is a stage, Shakespeare uses the points of comparison between the world and a stage to convey how the world works and the lives of the people within it.

21. The field is a rainbow of colors.
Simile or Metaphor?
The field is a rainbow of colors.
METAPHOR

22. The trees are like a canopy covering the road.
Simile or Metaphor?
The trees are like a canopy covering the road.
Simile

23. The lake is a mirror of beauty.
Simile or Metaphor?
The lake is a mirror of beauty.
METAPHOR

24. The clouds are as balls of cotton.
Simile or Metaphor?
The clouds are as balls of cotton.
Simile

25. Similes and Metaphors in Music
Look and listen for similes and metaphors in these song clips!
created by Dianne St Clair

26. Consolidation
Which one do you think is more effective? Metaphor or Simile? Why?
Do you know why it’s good to study Similes and Metaphors?
Task:
Each group writes 3 sentences. Two similes and one metaphor; or, one simile and two metaphors.