Once again it is the end of a long day.  Today was great; students were inspired and working diligently in the lab on their creative writing samples.  Some students were creating cartoons using Power Point and clip art adding call out talk bubbles, others are using: http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/, or http://www.wittycomics.com/make-comic.php, and Pixton.com.  Other were using templates create on Word to make small poetry chapbooks.  Still others were writing stories or plays.  All required to use elements from this list:

Onomatopoeia     Metaphor     Hyperbole     Oxymoron     Understatement

Personification     Simile            Idiom             Irony              Alllusion

Sarcasm                Tone             Analogy          Cliche’            Denotation

Symbolism            Imagery       Connotation