Anchor Work Short Stories/Novel

ANCHOR WORK – Unit Four

You must complete the Mandatory Space assignment and 2 of your choice over the course of the unit. The 3 assignments combined will be worth one test grade.

INTRAPERSONAL VISUAL/SPATIAL BODILY/KINESTHETIC

Write about a pet you have Draw a comic strip based on any Invent a new dance with multiple owned based on “The Dog that one of the travel essays that we steps. Provide a written set of Bit People.” Include at least 3 or have read. Must include 8 frames instructions explaining how to do more anecdotes and one properly and follow the plot structure. the dance with no illustrations. punctuated piece of dialogue. (3 ELACC9-10RI3 See if anyone can successfully paragraph minimum) perform your dance based on ELACC9-10W3 your instructions. Write the results of your experiment along with your instructions. ELACC9-10SL4

LOGICAL/MATHEMATICAL MANDATORY SPACE MUSICAL

Review Bill Bryson’s excerpt Choose one city that you wish to Find 5 similes or metaphors in about the dog chase in Australia. visit in your lifetime. Search the “The Dog that Bit People.” List List three words, two sentences internet for an article about a and explain what they mean. and one paragraph (all unique recent news event in that city. This one is more challenging than examples) and explain how these Provide a copy of the article you think! contribute to the overall humor of along with a two paragraph ELACC9-10L5 the piece. summary that contains one ELACC9-10RI5 embedded quote from the article. ELACC9-10W7

NATURALIST INTERPERSONAL VERBAL/LINGUISTIC

Choose one species of plant or Print 3 editorial or political Refer to Wallace’s essay animal identified in Bill Bryson’s cartoons, and write a paragraph “Shipping Out” and analyze why work. Research this plant or on each explaining what the Wallace is troubled by Frank animal on the internet. Compare cartoon says and the cartoonist’s Conroy’s brochure. How do and contrast the information that point of view. Wallace and Conroy’s points of you discover with the information ELACC9-10RI4 view differ? How does Conroy conveyed by Bryson. Was ELACC9-10RI6 make use of rhetoric? (2 written Bryson correct in his assessment? paragraphs) Write two paragraphs and provide ELACC9-10RI6 an MLA source for your information. ELACC9-10RI7