Announcements and Reminders:
Hand in your Worksheet for Prefixes and Suffixes and Editing from last time!
Be prepared to present your March Book Assignment! If you were not here to receive the assignment for our
April/May book assessment, pick up the handout from the
handouts file at the front of the room. See the tab above
for Required Reading for more information.
If you need to make up the district writing test, plan on a
day after school. Let me know when you can stay for
about 45 minutes or so.
Please finish and hand in your magical study guide.
If you have not finished the SAGE test, come to
Cave Time.
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Today’s Agenda:
Now: Hand in your Worksheet for Prefixes and Suffixes and Editing from last time! 1. Individual Reading and March Book Presentations 2. Editing Practice Editing: "Serial commas help combine sentences and expand ideas by using sensory detail -- specific nouns and verbs." p. 50 of Everyday Editing by Jeff Anderson "Lists can be a way to add specifics to our writing.'" p. 51 (sensory details) Model sentence: His room smelled of cooked grease, Lysol, and age. -- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) An IMITATION of the model sentence: Hector's room smelled of gym socks, Hot Cheetos, and lies. -- Jeff Anderson Ms. Dorsey's IMITATION of the model sentence: My car smells of Armour-All vinyl cleaner, banana peels, and teenagers. Students worked together to create an imitation, describing the interior of a car.
[Place] smells of ____________, ____________, and ______________.
Then each student used this framework to create their own sentence in their composition book :
Label Commas in a Series - April 21, 2014
[Place] smells of ____________, ____________, and ______________. We listened to a song titled "That Smell." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDB-yswOrzc&feature=kp Students shared and celebrated sentences. 2. Forms of Government with PowerPoint -- Take notes on the handout. This is the handout: FormsofGovernment.doc Take notes on this PowerPoint: (Authoritarianism is not a particular type of government, but a category for the types of government that follow it.) Types of Governments.ppt 3a. Finish Reading and answering questions about Chapters 1-4 of The Giver. 3b. When you finish chapters 3 and 4 of The Giver, and answering the questions, Complete the "Utopia" assignment, writing about the perfect society you would create if you could. |
If you were absent:
See above.
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