Pre-Writing Realistic Short Stories, Voice, & More Diction Work

Week 11:

1. Choose your top THREE story ideas from last week.  For each of those three story ideas, write a descriptive paragraph that focuses in on a character or a setting within that story idea, using imagery.

2. Learn about and active versus passive voice here.  Then, quiz yourself by filling in the Google Form.  Turn the passive sentences into active sentences correctly for full points.

3. Last, expand your vocabulary by learning about Greek and Latin roots.  View and complete the following worksheet that will expose you to and give you practice with 14 common roots.