Thursday/Friday, September 17/18, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:     Parent Teacher Conference September 17 from 3:30 to 8:00 pm               Should you need a preview or plan to be absent from class on any of the days during the rest of September: What We're Doing -- Sept. 15 - Sept. 30  Book of the Month Book Discussion will be held next week. Be prepared. And yes, you may bring treats to share with your group if you wish.    Cave Time on Thursday will be an assembly for seventh graders.  You will all receive colored slips and will all go to the assembly. Ms. Dorsey's Cave Time on Friday will be held in Computer Lab 202. Prepare for your post test on Literary Terms -- September 29/30. Literary Terms Book orders (Scholastic) will be sent in again on September 30.

Targets for Today: I will participate appropriately in class       activities.          (Utah State Core Language Arts: Speaking and Listening, Standard 1)  I can select and read books at my own reading level. (Utah State Core Language Arts: Reading Literature, Standard 10)  I can demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English spelling for two sets of commonly confused words. (Utah State Core Language Arts: Language, Standard 2)  I can recognize specific elements of literature.  (Utah State Core Language Arts: Reading Literature, Standards 3 and 4)     Specifically, I can recognize and define theme, topic, summary, genre figurative language:  simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia     (literal and figurative)

Today’s  Agenda: Pick up your composition book.  Prepare for your spelling test. 1. Spelling Test:  were/we're/where, then/than 2. Your next test will be September 25/28: here/hear barely/barley 9. here/hear How long have you been here? I can't hear you. 10. barely/barley I just barely made it into class on time. I enjoy bread made from wheat and barley. 3. The Sorting Hats for Topic, Theme, Genre, Summary Sort For tickets!  (Draw or spin names!) Random Name Pickers 2015 Words, Phrases, and Sentences to Sort: Biography Love is worth fighting for. A young Native American girl is kidnapped by an enemy tribe, sold as a wife to a French trapper, and later ends up as a guide for Lewis and Clark. Don’t give up on your dreams. Fantasy Friendship Listen to good advice and don’t assume you know everything. Love Magic Friendship is important. Mrs. Frizzle challenged the kids to learn more about the human body, so they shrank themselves and the bus, and then spent the day exploring Arnold’s insides. Mystery A little girl breaks into the three bears’ cottage, eats their food, breaks their things, and sleeps in their beds. Non-fiction Picnics Respect other people’s property. Romance Science fiction Snowboarding The caterpillar was very, very hungry, and he wandered around eating many various things. Unicorns Key for Sorting Hats ______________________________ 4. Figurative Language  Literal or Figurative?  PowerPoint  Prezi:  https://prezi.com/aasiosvmxiu6/literary-devices/    (brief) especially for onomatopoeia We copied the definitions for terms onto the Literary Terms worksheet. Literary Terms We didn't do this yet in A1:  Figurative Language Pop Culture 2014  (10 minutes +) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S-uxMeNnt4 Key for Figurative Language in Popular Culture Tickets!  B5 to That Boy is a Disease. B6 to B7 to Happy Now. Should you need more: Personification  Personification "A hook shot kisses the rim. . . "               from  "Fast Break" by Edward Hirsch Onomatopoeia poof! Onomatopoeia Figurative Language with Song Lyrics PowerPoint Alliteration example from Adeleigh W. : Baby Billy broke my big brother's bottle of blobs, but built it back together by bananas, and Billy's buddies (Bilbo, Bach, Bonnie, Brian, Brianna, Becca, Benny, Ben, Bill, Bob, and Breatta) dropped by to buy the bottles of blueish, brownish blobs.

If You Were Absent: Arrange to take the spelling test. See the list above for Topic, Theme, Summary, and Genre.  Find out if you can identify each item in the list as  Topic, Theme, Summary, or Genre. Check yourself with the key:  Key for Sorting Hats View the Prezi: https://prezi.com/aasiosvmxiu6/literary-devices/ especially to notice the definitions. We didn't do this yet in A1, but for the other classes -- Watch this and find out if you can identify the types of figurative language: Figurative Language Pop Culture 2014 (10 minutes +) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S-uxMeNnt4 Key for Figurative Language in Popular Culture