Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Under Pressure

When my son was in his first year of hockey,  he had a lucky scoring streak. Nothing that made him a prodigy, but a little streak of a goal every game for about three games. Maybe streak is a strong word for that, but when they score goals before they can write their name parents get a little excited.

Coming off the ice one afternoon, a childhood friend of my husband well-meaningly remarked, "Looks like you inherited your father's hands."

And the streak ended as fast as it had begun. My son didn't score for the rest of the season.

I think this kind of happened to me and the class blog this year. It got a little bit of attention, and I got a few compliments, and my posts promptly dried up. Performance anxiety.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Writing Assignment: Character Traits

Students,

Use the link below to identify traits you might use to describe the character in your text.

Character Traits List

French-English Dictionary

Reverso: language translation on-line

Then, for the second part of the exercise, use this site:

Thesaurus

 to find antonyms for the adjectives you chose.

Happy Writing,
Ms Napier