Saturday, November 1, 2014

Tuesday/Wednesday, November 4/5, 2014


B2 only:  The LIVE Week Lesson we missed --
 Laugh & Achieve.pptx
But anyone could look at the  Halloween Jokes.
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Tuesday/Wednesday, November 4/5, 2014
Reminders:
Today you should be signed up for your nonfiction book.



1. Individual reading of your nonfiction books.

 2. External text features activity

  • First, use the book you are reading for your project to look for external text features.
  • Follow the directions on the worksheet.
  • For any text features that you did not find in your book, find them in other nonfiction books in the room.
  • Look in the books available, or ask other students whether they have found the features you haven't yet found.  
    • DO NOT just copy from another student's worksheet.
    • To get the benefits from this exercise, you must SEE the text feature in the book.  
  • Find as many of the text features as you can in the time allotted.
  • This will be turned in at the end of the allotted time.  

Examples for External Text Features




F.Y.I.
This is regular text.
This is italics.
This is bolded.
ap·pen·dix
əˈpendiks/
noun.
  1. 2.
    a section or table of additional matter at the end of a book or document.
    synonyms:supplement, addendum, postscript, codicil


Your Book Project for November
For part of your book project, you will create an external text feature for your book: 
a timeline   Example:  Timeline for Ice Story
a glossary   Example:  Glossary for Ice Story
a who's who  Example:  Shackleton's Crew
a what's where  Example:  What's Where for King of the Mild Frontier
an original graph or table
a top ten facts about the subject
or propose another text feature that would be helpful for your book

  (Handouts for the project will be available next time. Start collecting information for the external text feature you select.)

3.  CSI


CSI  American Fork


Now Investigating:  Conventions in Sentences Investigation

     
Copy this sentence into your composition book.  Be prepared to share what you notice about it. 


Before I do anything else, I need to go back over 

everything that has happened this summer: the Big 

Mistake, the old man, the book, the lamp, the 

telescope, and this box, which started it all.
  
   -- Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life (2006)


Notice everything you can about the above sentence. 
No more tickets for capital letters at the beginning of the sentence 
or periods at the end. 
It is a correct sentence (I hope), so you are not looking for errors (I hope). 




Utah State Core: 
 Reading: Informational Text Standard 10 

By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

925L–1185L

Conventions of Standard English Language Standard 1 

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Speaking and Listening Standard 1

Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.

If you were absent,  
make sure you are signed up for your nonfiction book,
look in the handouts box for the text features worksheet and complete that assignment and turn it in,
copy the CSI sentence into your composition book, and make a list of all the things you notice about it (notice especially the subordinating conjunction at the beginning of the sentence), 
and study the information about text features and about your November book assignment. 

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