January 27, 2003.
Hollywood Stars.
I read your Emails today about your new Hollywood names. I was impressed with your reasons for choosing your "movie star" name, and I was pleased to see the creativity you revealed in creating the new names.
What about Your Name?
The next writing assignment is a formal paragraph about your own name. In Kaleidoscope, you read about naming customs. A couple of you have already told me what your name means. (Ask Sanja.) The first step in preparing for this composition is to collect some ideas. After that, you will write the rough draft.
Why Did Daddy
Give Me a Boy's Name?
I wrote the following essay about my name a few semesters ago while my students were writing in their journals. Notice that it is in paragraph form and that I write about one thing only — how I got the name "Freddie."
A Boy's Name.
My name is Freddie. It's an ordinary enough name for a male, but I'm not a boy, so why did Daddy give me a boy's name?
Well, my parents, Fred and DeLean, had been married for eleven years and still had no children. They had almost given up on having any children, but they promised each other that if they were blessed with a child, the first one would be named Fred after my father.
Guess what? The baby was a girl. Me! So as a symbol of their love for each other and their gratitude to God for blessing them with a baby girl, they named me Freddie (little Fred) and Elizabeth, the middle name of my mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. That's why Daddy gave me a boy's name.
Bonus Point Challenge Answers
Simple Present Tense.
Congratulations to the winners.
1. True False: Use the base form of the verb after does.
Answer: True.
2. True False: Frequency adverbs come after the to be verb.
Answers: True.
3. True False: For place of origin, use the simple past tense.
Answer: False. Use simple present tense.