By today you should have signed up for your realistic fiction book for the Second Basic 8 Book of the Month.
Realistic Fiction -- Contemporary
If you haven't turned in your First Basic 8 Book of the Month, turn that in as soon as possible (ASAP) either on Edmodo or as a hard copy.
Receive new book order fliers.
1. Individual Reading Time
2. Book Share
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3. About the September/October Book Project and receive handouts for it. Basic 8, Book #2 Assessment -- Character Cube
Character:
How do you learn about someone new? What evidence can we gather to learn about him or her?
How We Learn About Character
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CSI American Fork
Now Investigating: Conventions in Sentences Investigation
CSI American Fork
Now Investigating: Conventions in Sentences Investigation
4. Investigation by Imitation!
Your task:
a. Label the page with today's date and copy the first sentence into your composition book:
His room smelled of cooked grease, Lysol, and age.
-- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
-- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
These are imitations of the above sentence:
Hector's room smelled of gym socks, Hot Cheetos, and lies.
-- Jeff Anderson
Hector's room smelled of gym socks, Hot Cheetos, and lies.
-- Jeff Anderson
My car smells of Armour-All vinyl cleaner, banana peels, and teenagers. -- Ms. Dorsey
b. Create your own sentence using a list with commas in a series by copying and filling in the blanks on this sentence.
[Write in a Place] smells of ______________, _____________, and __________________.
or
B8 What is a sentence?
5. The Outsiders
B5 to top of page 95, iTunes chapter 6, 17:13
B6 to page 109 iTunes, chapter 6 , 41:11
B7 to top of page 87, iTunes chapter 6 , 2:55
B8 to page 96, chapter 6, 19:31
