Announcements and Reminders:
1. SAGE TESTING
To prepare for the SAGE Testing in May (May 7 and 9), be ready to bring your own headphones. You will receive extra credit for bringing them. To prepare for the SAGE Testing in May (May 7 and 9), you can go to http://sageportal.org/training-tests/ and go over the practice test. 2. If you have not presented your March Book Assessment, come to Cave Time to do it. 3. I will send in book orders next Friday, May 2, then again May 9. Order online or bring the order form and a check. If you order online, use the Class Activation Code: GKLJW 4. Our own drama department will be presenting The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the Broadway Musical, beginning April 30!
1938 movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUDuRvQGw3k
Text from the book for the whitewash scene: http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/learnmore/writings_tom.html |
Today’s Agenda:
1. Individual Reading 2. Using Phrases and Clauses to Build Sentences Simple Sentences: A simple sentence is a single independent clause.
Compound Sentences: A compound sentence is made up of two or more independent clauses hooked together with a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
FANBOYS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPoBE-E8VOc
This is your model sentence:
There was only about a block to go before our bus stop, but I couldn't stand Stephen's whining another second.
-- Andrew Clements, The Report Card (2004)
This is an imitation by Jeff Anderson:
It was only a mile until we reached the rest stop, but I couldn't hold it another second.
Another imitation:
It was only a day before the competition, but I couldn't concentrate on the game anymore.
In your composition book, label this entry "Compound Sentence" and add today's date. The write a sentence (imitating the sentences above) following this pattern:
It
or There or He or She or [Name] was only _____(complete the thought to create an independent clause)______, but ___(complete the thought to create an independent clause)___.
IC, + Coordinating Conjunction + IC.
And a quiz: http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/language_arts/sentence_types/quiz1848.html Coming Next Time -- Complex Sentences:
http://learningediting.pbworks.com/w/page/15839781/Compound%20Sentences Types of Sentences (Compared with Families) The Compound Sentence Phrases and Clauses 3. Suffixes (Use this handout: Suffix Practice 2 and family sentences.docx.)
5. Symbolism -- Take notes pale eyes in The Giver (notice that it does not say "blue," just pale) What would a bicycle represent -- especially for a child just getting one? Jonas and the newchild Gabriel have "lighter" eyes. If time:
Codes-Symbols -- Take notes in your composition book.
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-key-to-media-s-hidden-codes (6 minutes)
B5 to 4:16 camera angles B6 just copying code chart B7 to copying code chart: 2:38 B8 finished. Your notes should include the two things that must be so of symbolic codes, and the family tree of technical codes.
Watch for symbolism in The Giver. Watch for symbolism in your own book of the month. Think about what colors and other symbols you could use to represent the characters and setting in the scene you choose from your book.
Symbolism of color: http://www.incredibleart.org/lessons/middle/color2.htm |
If you were absent:
See above.
Today B7 got to the top of page 47. Today B8 got to the last paragraph of page 55. |