1. Pick up your composition book.
If you have not placed it in the new folder for this semester, it may be in the cardboard box on the west side of the classroom.
2. Individual Reading
3. Conventions in Sentences Investigation
Tuesday
Title it: Chunking to
Imitate January 20/23, 2015
Directions:
Copy the model and then copy the sentence that imitates it. Then chunk both the model and the
sentence that imitates it into meaningful sentence parts, using a slash mark
(/).
1. MODEL: His face was bloody, his shirt torn
and bloody down the front.
Hal Borland, When the Legends
Die
a. The day was perfect, the sky blue and perfect in the
heavens.
b. His sister married someone they didn’t know, a stranger
to the family.
2. MODEL: Big, rough teenagers jostled
through the crowd, their sleeves rolled high enough to show off blue and red
tattoos.
-- Robert Lipsyte, The Contender
a. An old, large man reached for the available chair and
sat down, huffing and puffing, before I could get there.
b.
Silent, silver fish moved through the tank, their bodies sleek enough
to suggest larger and more dangerous predators.
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Wednesday January 21/ Thursday, January 22, 2015
3. Capitalizing and Punctuating Titles
4. More argument -- Writing up a report on the case
Write a paragraph as a police report on what you have observed and what you think is true.
1. Your central idea (claim) will be either
"Mrs. Volupides is not telling the truth."
or
"Mrs. Volupides is telling the truth."
2.
The first piece of evidence . . . is. . . .
(Explain the general rule why this piece of evidence shows that your claim/central idea is correct.)
The second piece of evidence . . . is. . . .
(Explain the general rule why this piece of evidence shows that your claim/central idea is correct.)
A third piece of evidence . . . is. . . .
(Explain the general rule why this piece of evidence shows that your claim/central idea is correct.)
Provide two more pieces of evidence and explain how each proves your claim.
3. Conclude by restating your claim.
5. Media Center to find historical fiction books
- how to use Alexandria to find historical fiction book
- Go to our school homepage. http://afjh.alpineschools.org/
- Go to Resources
- Go to Alexandria. (2nd item down)
- To the right of the search bar, change from Simple to Advanced -- type in "historical fiction"
- Use the call number FIC (with first three letters of the author's last name) to find the book on the shelf. On the right side of the book info, you can see whether it is IN or OUT.
Recommended books from Ms. Jones:
World War I -- Aftermath: After the Dancing Days
Civil War: Across Five Aprils
1800's - Medicine: The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
Golf -- Caddies for a Great Golfer: The Legend of Bagger Vance
Revolutionary War: What if the British Won? The Year of the Hangman
Make sure you receive Book-of-the-Month Assignment today.
Sign-up for your historical fiction book as soon as you can. This is due by January 23.
Next time for B-Day--
Chunking 2
Next time for A-Day--
Correctly Writing Titles
