Letter from Squeaky to Gretchen!

Due: Thursday, May 7
(use the time after you've finished the STAR test for working on this assignment)

Write a one-page (handwritten) letter from Squeaky to Gretchen, asking for Gretchen's help in training Raymond to be a runner.
Write in Squeaky's "voice" to show her character, using such features as:

• slang
• word choice
• fragments
• loooooooooong sentences!
• Use some slang: gonna, wanna, gotta, cuz, hecka, cause, OK, Ima, 'nuf, yo, goin, tryin, thinkin, ain't,
• Show me you understand Squeaky's character and her "attitude," and that you understand how the author created Squeaky's "voice" to get her character across to the reader.
  
  You can create long sentences by using adding long clauses to a basic sentence:

I think you're the best so I'm asking you to help me. (basic sentence)

I think you're the best because you won the race so I'm asking you to help me and give me some advice.

Even though I'm shy about saying it, I think you're the best because you won the race and because you didn't give up especially when I was ahead of you by a nose right at the end of the race, so I'm asking you to help me and give me some advice because I really need some tips on how to make Raymond, loveable but stubborn and hard-to-reach bro that he is, a great runner.

1st period: Give it to me at the beginning of class.
4th period: Put it in my mailbox (across from the main office) or slide it under my classroom door sometime on Thursday.