Your Book-of-the-Month Book Project is due today.
September Book of the Month Assignment
1. Bell-Ringer:
a. If you were absent last time, find out from a classmate what's going on in The Outsiders from a classmate. We're to the top of page 24.
b. More on using colons.
If you were absent, read through the following sentences and create your own imitation using this pattern:
Complete sentence: sentence.
Colons also introduce complete sentences and quotes.(The colon acts as a fanfare for what follows.) [Sound effect?]
Take time for all things: Great haste makes great waste. -- Benjamin Franklin
He took his Scout motto seriously: Be prepared. -- Andrew Clements, A Week in the Woods (2004)
I tried to concentrate on Ms. Meadows's advice: "Just listen to yourself and put it down (on paper."
--Tracy Mack, Drawing Lessons (2002)
This was all his life had been since April 29 of last year: a ride to somewhere he didn't want to go.
Jerry Spinelli, Eggs (2007)
2. Reading minute: Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
The Outsiders
Conflict : a problem or struggle between two opposing forces in a story. Here are five basic conflicts:
- person vs. person
- person vs. self
- person vs. society
- person vs. nature
- person vs. fate (God, the gods, the supernatural)
* Students selected a character from The Outsiders and began creating a chart about that character and now the author reveals his or her traits. If you were absent, pick up the chart from the file folders at the back of the room.
Today we read from The Outsiders: (the track and time information are notes for me, the teacher)
A1 top of page 24, (track 2, 8:13) to page 35 (Track 2, about 28:00)
A2 top of page 24, (track 2, 8:13) to page 37 Begin on Track 3.
A3 top of page 24, (track 2, 8:13) to page 37 Begin on Track 3.
A4 top of page 24, (track 2, 8:13) to page 37 Begin on Track 3.
4. Spelling/Vocabulary: Commonly confused words -- assign and perhaps begin making posters.
Important reminders:
If you were absent when we went to the lab to take these tests, you will need to take the MyAccess writing test in computer lab (Room 223) during one Cave Time, and the SRI in the computer lab during another.
If you were here and did not finish the SRI, you may finish it in the computer lab (Room 223) during Cave Time. For the SRI, print your results and bring them to me.
Your Book-of-the-Month project is due TODAY!
There will be retakes (for those who have already taken it) of the teachers' names spelling test during Cave Time on September 17 and 23.
Make sure you're up-to-date on your composition book at The Composition Book -- So Far.
