Thursday, February 13, 2014

Announcements and Reminders:  If you still need to turn in or revise your January Book Project (Historical Fiction Background on Edmodo), do that as soon as you can!  Be prepared on February 28 to create the brochure for your Nonfiction February Book of the Month. Collect your information on the pink assignment sheet. Remember to edit your work for our Essential Spelling Words. No school on Monday!

Today’s Agenda:   1.  Individual Reading of your nonfiction book.                  (Reading: Informational Text Standard 10)        An external text feature  -- Glossary for The Trouble Begins at 8.doc      A glossary is like a mini dictionary with words that are in the book -- words the reader might not understand without a little help. Does your book have a glossary?  If not, you might want to collect  (on your pink assignment sheet) words for your brochure. 2.   Capitalization Mini-lesson -- with Mr. Hadley 3.   Argument                                                                   (English Language Arts Grade 7, Writing, Standard 1) B5 Argument Chart B6 Argument Chart B7 Argument Chart B8 Argument Chart Activities:   Students will practice finding evidence by observation, and creating warrants to prove a connections between the evidence and a possible claim. Target:    Students will support a claim with relevant evidence and logical reasoning. They will use words, phrases and clauses to clarify the relationship between evidence and reasons.  (As a rule. . . . , or Generally when. . . . ) Standard W71b-d

If you were absent:  See above.  See the handout file.  Ask your group members about Queenie!

Argument                                                                          (English Language Arts Grade 7, Writing, Standard 1)

Additional Example

Claim:    Ima Criminal robbed the Moneybags Community Bank on July 14, 2013.
 (Note: The following  is only part of the evidence collected by police officers.)

Evidence (Data)	Warrant (Rules and Explanations/Reasoning)
1. The robber was wearing a black ski mask and a black ski mask was found in the glove compartment of Ima’s car.	As a rule, most people do not keep ski masks in their cars – especially in July.  ?
2.   An empty canvas bag marked  Moneybags Community Bank was found in Ima’s  washing machine.  The bank uses  canvas bags like this to transport money.	As a rule, most people do not have canvas money bags from a bank in their laundry, or even in their possession.
3.  Her landlord reported that Ima was unable to pay her rent the day before the bank robbery, and  a real estate agent testified that the day after the bank robbery Ima offered to pay cash for a $300, 000 house.	Generally people do not change their financial status that quickly.
Conclusion:   Ima was likely involved in the  robbery of  the Moneybags Community Bank.

Investigative Teams

B5

Adamson Jenkins Reinhold Whitehead	Condie Jimenez Shields Sumsion	Deans Lambert Walker, D. Peyregne	Eldredge Madigan Walker, A. Burgos
Epperson Markle Springer Neibar	Greenwood Norton Merrill Cruz Rasmussen	Larson Phillips Warburton Prieur	Eagar Wettstein Baird McClellan

Investigative Teams

B6
Anderson Wilson Daoheuang Lott	Ashcraft Yerkes Cook Pellom	Coleman Taylor, E Horne Orr	Demonja Taylor, A Gilbert Susov
	Harper Russell Lewis Goold	Herzog Zamorano Tholstrom Garner	Rasmussen Jolley Vannarath Eskelsen

Investigative Teams

B7
Annas Paskett Luke Shaughnessy	Arnson Phillips Farley Baker	Llewellyn Larson Wagner Tanner	Corbridge Stratton Murray Zabriskie
Davis Johnson Allred Brems	Edwards Woolf Fano Flynn	Horn Roberts Lambert Sharp
Hernandez Knighton Farnsworth Williams	Izatt Keetch Spainhower Bishop

Investigative Teams

B8
Contino Francom Monson Smith	Dupaix Smart Merkley Bentley	Golding Dickey Moore Griffin	Tipps Nelson Farnsworth
Hiatt Sheppard Wright Hammond	Knudson Poulson Bushman Hall, L	Manges Hall, J Winters Nixon	Mecham Crabb Jasper Sabey
		Pack Brems Mitchell Warren

When you read nonfiction -- read smart!
External Text features are there to help you understand the text.
If you're interested, here is more information on external text features:
External Text Features, Alphabetically

External Text Features 1 

External Text Features  2

Examples for External Text Features

Examples of External Text Features