- If you need to finish your District Writing Test or your Scholastic Reading Inventory Test, please go to lab 223 for Cavetime.
- For the District Test, pick up a packet from Ms. Dorsey.
- For the SRI, carefully follow the directions on the poster in the lab to log-in.
- I can now access the information for you to log into Utah Compose -- in case you'd like to write the Duct Tape Essay for the Writing Lab Contest.
- utahcompose.com
- Contest Open from March 13 - April 24.
- Entries cannot exceed 2500 words in length.
Today, March 30, 2015, is Utah Vietnam Veterans' Day.
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| Thank you to our Vietnam Veterans! |
Today's Activities:
1. Individual Reading -- Your choice.By the way, your next book assignment is again your choice of genres among novels.
2. Finish your magical study guide. The test will be on April 2/3.
Word Parts
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3. Quiz A on Word Parts -- You may use your study guide!
Examples: If bi- means _____________ and cycle means _____________,
then bicycle means _____________________.
If scope means _______________ and tele mean _______________,
then telescope means ________________________.
4. Listening: (If you are absent, you should listen to the podcast and write out the
answers to the questions and hand them in.)
answers to the questions and hand them in.)
Getting Ready to Listen:
Notice this Practice Sample for a listening portion of the State Test:
On the state test, notice that you do not get a text to go with the listening.
You must listen carefully.
- Look at all the questions first. (This time, see below.)
- Make a place to take notes.
- Don't write whole sentences. Abbreviate where helpful. Sketch if helpful.(You can replay the audio, but be aware that it always starts over from the beginning.)
We are each others business 4 minutes 27 seconds?
http://www.ifyc.org/about-us/eboo-patel
Recently in Utah -- Presidential Lectures -- September 2014
Recently in Utah -- Presidential Lectures -- September 2014
What do you see in this picture?
What religion is Eboo Patel?
Name the religions of three of the people he ate lunch with in high school.
What is the experience he wished had never happened?
F.Y.I. Anti-Semitism means against Jewish people.
How had Eboo responded to that experience at the time?
What does he feel he should have done?
What is the central idea of this podcast?
Watch for --
title/topic
gist
repeated words or synonyms
repeated ideas
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Some things we noticed:
what the poem looks like on the page the story he is telling figurative language -- metaphor descriptive language emotions/mood |
(If you are absent, you should carefully read the poem and write down at least five things you notice about the poem -- the story and the sounds and other poetic aspects of the poem. This can be on the same paper as your answers to the questions about the podcast.)
Hoods
Paul B. Janeczko
In black leather jackets,
watching Spider work
the wire coat hanger
into Mrs. Koops car,
they remind me of crows
huddled around a road kill.
Startled,
They looked up,
then back
as Spider,
who nodded once, setting them free
toward me.
I bounded away,
used a parking meter
to whip me around the corner
past Janelli's Market,
the darkened Pine Street Grille,
and the steamed windows
of Sudsy's Modern Laundromat.
I climbed-two at a time
the granite steps
of the Free Public Library
and pushed back thick wooden doors
as the pursuing pack stopped –
sinners at the door of a church.
From the corner table of the reference room
I watched them
pacing,
head turning every time the door opened,
pacing,
until Spider arrived
to draw them away.
I waited, fingering hearts,
initials carved into the table,
grinning as I heard myself telling Raymond
of my death-defying escape.
