Café de Language Arts
APPETIZERS
Main courses
DESSERTS
The “Adverb-tizer”: Write three sentences,
each containing conjunctive adverbs. Underline
the adverbs.
Cheese-stuffed Chatterboxes: Write a
conversation between you and your
best friend. Talk about something you
both love. Be sure to use quotation
marks correctly.
Please-Bake Cheesecake: Write a persuasive
Red Pepper-Roasted Roots: Write three words
for each of the following prefixes: bio-, auto-,
therm-.
Great-Beginning Breadsticks: Write three
different sentences that would each be an
interesting way to begin your autobiography.
Side DISHES
Connotation crab cakes: categorize the following
pairs of words as meaning either positive or
negative. Make a T-Chart. fat – healthy, thrifty penny-pincher, scrawny -thin, unique-strange,
ugly-different
Parenthetical Potato Poppers: Write four
sentences using some of the following
parenthetical expressions:
I think, as well as, by the way, in fact, as a result,
as stated earlier, in my opinion
Deep-Fried Definitions: Look up each of the
following words in the dictionary: apparition,
haggard, pungent, virtuoso. Use the word in a
sentence.
Grilled-to-Perfection Poetry: Write a
poem about something or someone
very important to you.
Cluck-Cluck Casserole: Write a journal
entry about a time when you
overcame a fear. Include details so
your reader feels like he or she is right
there with you!
letter to the owner of Café de Language Arts.
Persuade the owner to put the cheesecake you
had last month back on the menu.
Fabulous -Follow-Me Float: Write the
directions making something. Be sure to include
all the steps.
So Sweet Concoction: Write five sentences
about something you did that was sweet. Each
sentence must contain an emphatic verb.
Ex. I did help my brother with his homework.
Double-Decker Descriptive Delight: Write a
paragraph describing your favorite food
(without naming the food).
Pickle Sandwich Prepositions:
Locate five objects in the classroom.
Then write a sentence describing its
location using prepositional phrases.
Drinks
Tropical Transitions: List ten transitional words and
phrases.
Pile-of-Pasta Pandemonium: The
Simile Smoothie: Write five sentences about things
that are smooth. Use similes to show your
comparison.
name of this dish is alliterative because it
includes words with the same beginning
sound. Write three sentences that use
alliteration and two that use assonance.
Assonance is the repetition of vowel
sounds in nearby words.
Mocha Milkshake Marvel: Write two complex
sentences and two compound-complex sentences.
Cool Coconut Clauses: Write three sentences. Use
an adjective clause in one, an adverb clause in one,
and a noun clause in one.