Do you have your note-collecting paper for the nonfiction book assignment? If not, pick on up.
1. iRead: Media Center for Reading Time or to Find a Book
Leave your backpack in the classroom. Take your nonfiction book, if you have it, and go to the Media Center. YOU WILL BE READING OR LOOKING FOR A BOOK. If you do not have a book, find one in the classroom or media center:
NONFICTION: BIOGRAPHY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, LITERARY NONFICTION, NONFICTION ON ONE SUBJECT
Pick up your composition book.
2. iWriteRight: Subject-Verb Agreement 2
Do copy these sentences. Add them to the sentences from last time -- April 8/9. Copy them, using the correct verb.
#5. Beans and Barley Restaurant (a. serve, b. serves) great veggie burgers.
#6. Carnival rides, fireworks, and cotton candy (a. makes, b. make) state fairs fun.
#7. The committee (a. has, b. have) recommended improvements for school lunches.
#8. Neither the faculty nor the students (a. is, b. are) happy with the change in the schedule.
These rules are a Reminder: You do not have to copy this reminder unless you do not yet have it.
- The subject and verb of a sentence must agree in number.
- In other words, if the subject is singular, the verb must be singular, too.
- If the subject is plural, the verb must be plural.
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Teams Assignment
As a team, notice as many things as you can about the following poem. Using one scribe, list all the things you notice.
3. iReadPoetry
- Read the poem and see if you can tell what the poet's purpose is.
- Also, notice what the mood of the poem is.
- Can you identify a central idea or theme?
- What else do you notice?
A central idea is the big idea or message of nonfiction.
A theme is the big idea or message of fiction.
3a. Small Group Noticings
Poem See Literature Text, page 25, and audio recording.
"The Runaway" by Robert Frost
Once when the snow of the year was beginning to fall,
We stopped by a mountain pasture to say 'Whose colt?'
A little Morgan had one forefoot on the wall,
The other curled at his breast. He dipped his head
And snorted at us. And then he had to bolt.
We heard the miniature thunder where he fled,
And we saw him, or thought we saw him, dim and grey,
Like a shadow against the curtain of falling flakes.
'I think the little fellow's afraid of the snow.
He isn't winter-broken. It isn't play
With the little fellow at all. He's running away.
I doubt if even his mother could tell him, "Sakes,
It's only weather". He'd think she didn't know !
Where is his mother? He can't be out alone.'
And now he comes again with a clatter of stone
And mounts the wall again with whited eyes
And all his tail that isn't hair up straight.
He shudders his coat as if to throw off flies.
'Whoever it is that leaves him out so late,
When other creatures have gone to stall and bin,
Ought to be told to come and take him in.'
3b. Silent discussion about poem
3c. For A1, A3, A4: Central Idea Quiz #1.
A4 still needs quiz?
4. iLearn: External Text Features in Ice Story
External Text Features 1 -- Take notes!
If you are absent, carefully study the above link.
A1 needs notes again.
A1 needs notes again.
External Text Features 2
Examples for External Text Features
Examples of External Text Features
External Text Features:
Make sure you can recognize
captions
graphs and charts
tables
table of contents
index
glossary
titles
headings
subheadings
bolded words
External Text Features in Ice Story
5. iRead: Ice Story
Important Questions:
What is (and is not) courage?
What makes a good leader?
Who will survive?
Book
A1 to page 8 end of second paragraph
A3 to page 8 end of second paragraph
A4 to page 11, settles like an iron blanket
B7 to page
B8 to page
Video
last time
A1 Watched video to 1:22
A2 Watched video to 1:18:34
A3 Watched video to 1:12:53
A3 Watched video to 1:12:53
B7 Watched video to 1:07:55
B8 Watch video to 1:08:01 to
Wonder?
