1. Bell-Ringer:
a. More on using colons.
Read the passage and write an imitation (Sentence: commas in a series list.) about what makes you afraid or angry or sad or happy or excited. Choose one emotion.
The passage to read:One of his best friends has recently made a name for himself at school by riding a skateboard down Dead Man’s Hill. Now Will is standing alone with his own skateboard at the top of Dead Man’s Hill, knowing that B.T. really did it, but not understanding how he could have.
The rising sun was straight ahead. I could look directly at it because it was bloody orange and just over the horizon and smoky with clouds. When I looked at the sun, my eyes were crossing 93 million miles of space. But my feet wouldn’t cross another inch. . .
Ninety three million miles of space in front of me, and every inch of it seemed packed with the things I was afraid of: high places, cramped places, dark places, thousand-leggers, speed, flying, death, change, time, pain, failure, criticism, roller coasters, train tracks, being wrong, being smelly, being late, being stupid, being rejected, black mambos, leeches, hantavirus, losing, deep water, uncertainty, being buried alive, being caught being afraid, myself. . .
I could see my epitaph:
HERE LIES WILLIAM JAY TUPPENCEHE WAS AFRAID
(from Smiles to Go by Jerry Spinelli, pages 30, 31)
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2. Reading minute: Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers by Gary Paulsen
3. Reading: Developing reading skills and learning literature terms and strategies.The Outsiders
Character and Conflict in Literature
* Don't forget to fill in your chart about a character from The Outsiders. If you were absent, pick up the chart from the file folders at the back of the room.
Also take a few notes in your composition book on the other characters. Today you heard about Bob and Randy.
Today we read from The Outsiders: (the track and time information are notes for me, the teacher)
A1 page 35 (Track 2, about 28:00) to top of page 47 Disc 2, Track 1, minutes about 3:39?
A2 page 37 Begin on Track 3 to top of page 47 Disc 2, Track 1, minutes about 3:39?
A3 page 37 Begin on Track 3 to top of page 47 Disc 2, Track 1, minutes about 3:39?
A4 page 37 Begin on Track 3 to top of page 47 Disc 2, Track 1, minutes about 3:39?
Students recreated a scene from The Outsiders for a still photo.
4. Spelling/Vocabulary: Commonly confused words --Create posters. Students worked on creating their posters about their seventh grade commonly confused words. We will finish them next time.
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 was due last time!
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 (TODAY).
Make sure you're up-to-date on your composition book at The Composition Book -- So Far.
