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All the students in room 15 teach and learn from each other. The challenges that are achieved are limited only by the restrictions of their own minds!

by Envua teacher: Michael La Marr


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Bonus BLOG 05/16
Old Sacramento 04/22
Westminster Woods Poetry 04/15
The Terrible Wave 01/08
California's History 10/23

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5/22 Old Sacramento floods
4/26 Wesminster Woods Poetry
2/1 Description from “The Terrible Wave”
1/22 California's History

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Description from “The Terrible Wave” The Terrible Wave, by Marden Dahlstedt, is a great book full of descriptive writing based on the Johnstown Flood. A girl named Megan Maxwell is stuck with a group of people during the Johnstown flood. There is a lot of evocative writing such as, ”At first all she could see was a sinister black mist. It rolled toward the house like billowing smoke,” which I think is very vivid. I think it’s vivid because of all the writing is worded so it’s very descriptive. s
There is a bit of personification in the book “ A piano drifted beside her, its white keys looking like a great grinning mouth.” I think all the writing is very graphic. There are times when the writing gets so descriptive that the reader gets a picture in his or her mind, which is called a mental picture.
There are lots of other pieces and types of expressive writing in The Terrible Wave so try reading it. It’s a good read!

Article posted February 1, 2012 at 11:05 AM • comment • Reads 108 • see all articles



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