Don't forget to take the SRI if you haven't done it within the past couple of weeks. You may do it during CaveTime in Lab 223. Bring me your print out.
Finding figurative language in "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"
[B2 and B4 found similes on page 13. B1, A1, A4 still need to do similes.]
A2 needs to correct sentences. Look also at the use of lie/lay.]
Topics for today: Subject-Verb Agreement / Finding subject and verb in a sentence / Lie-lay verbs
Short Story -- Plot Line/Character
B1 -- not yet covered character.
Find plot outlines for our short stories and more about plot here.
The Major Parts of a Plot:
Exposition (introduces characters and setting and the basic situation)
Rising Action (conflict and complications are shown)
Climax (This is the highest point -- the point of greatest tension. At the point of climax, something important changes -- usually the conflict is resolved.)
Falling Action (Tells what happens after the climax. This is a winding up
Resolution -- How did everything end up. "And they all lived happily every after" is a resolution. In "Rikki-
Tikki-Tavi" the resolution tells us that from then on Rikki kept the garden free from snakes.
"The Smallest Dragon Boy" by Anne McCaffrey -- filling in a plot line (33:31)
If you are absent, to read the story and write in your composition book, come in for Cave Time intervention or come after school.
You can read it here: http://ebookbrowse.com/anne-mccaffrey-pern-series-15-the-smallest-dragonboy-pdf-d185149984
Self-Starter: ("The Smallest Dragon Boy")
A. In your textbook, on page 46, read "Make a Connection" and "Quickwrite." Write the quickwrite in your composition book.
See an article about "underdogs" here.
B. Subject-Verb Agreement exercise: Copy these sentences into your composition book, and make corrections.
1. That make Percy a target to monsters.
2. There's magic item's in the book.
3. Ares ask them to go and retrieve his sword.
4. Grover get approval to become a searcher to search for Pan.
-->
C. Read the “Background” on page 46.
D. If you have time, read page 45 about metacognition.
Plot for "The Smallest Dragon Boy" by Anne McCaffrey
Dragonriders of Pern books by Anne McCaffrey -- a list of Dragonriders of Pern books.
Finding subject and verb in a sentence.
