Friday/Monday, November 13/16, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                                                                          All book sign-ups for the Book-of-the-Month were due by  November 11.     The book discussions will be on November 19/20.

Targets for Today: Reading: Literature Standard 1  Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Writing Standard 1  Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. Language Standard 2  Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. Speaking and Listening Standard 3  Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.

Today’s  Agenda: A1 1. Individual Reading Complete this exercise with your Book of the Month.  Copy one paragraph (at least six sentences) from your book.  It is better not to use all dialogue. Underline the words you need to change to convert it from first person to third person or from third person to first person.  If it is written in second person, see me. See the direction sheet provided.    Point of View Switch.docx  If you are doing this at home, click on the link, click on the tab for Download. Open the document.  Make sure you have another student check it.  Then print it to hand in.  You need at least four underlined and changed words, in six sentences or so (or fewer long sentences).  You need your own name and period. You need the title of the book and the page from which you took the passage. Label each paragraph with Point of View. Use correct capitalization and punctuation.   Example Page 92 of The Graveyard Book  The Original:  Third Person  It's going to eat me, he thought bitterly.  Smart, Bod.  And he thought of his home in the graveyard, and now he could no longer remember why he had ever left.  Monster dog or no monster dog, he had to get back home once more.  There were people waiting for him.      He pushed past the beast, jumped down to the next step four feet below, fell his height, landed on his ankle, which twisted underneath him, painfully, and he dropped, heavily, onto the rock.   Changed to First Person     It's going to eat me, I thought bitterly.  Smart, Bod.  And I thought of my home in the graveyard, and now I could no longer remember why I had ever left.  Monster dog or no monster dog, I had to get back home once more.  There were people waiting for me.      I pushed past the beast, jumped down to the next step four feet below, fell my height, landed on my ankle, which twisted underneath me, painfully, and I dropped, heavily, onto the rock.   Another Example:  Page 16 of Michael Vey 5: Storm of Lightning by Richard Paul Evans.  The Original: First Person         The Electroclan and I are on a flight back to the United States from  Taiwan.  We just rescued a young Chinese girl named Jade Dragon from  the Elgen.  We were at a safe house in Taiwan when we learned that the  Timepiece Ranch, the headquarters of the resistance, had been  destroyed by Elgen forces.  The last communication we received from  the voice is that there were no survivors.         For me this is personal.  My mother was at the ranch.  Changed  to Third Person       The Electroclan and Michael are on a flight back to the United States  from Taiwan.  They just rescued a young Chinese girl named Jade  Dragon from the Elgen.  They were at a safe house in Taiwan when they  learned that the Timepiece Ranch, the headquarters of the resistance,  had been destroyed by Elgen forces.  The last communication they  received from the voice is that there were no survivors.         For Michael this is personal.   His mother was at the ranch. Practicing for Argument --  A1 did not do this yet. 2. https://archive.org/details/Five_Minute_Mysteries  "The Weapon" https://archive.org/details/Five_Minute_Mysteries  "No Leg to Stand On" 3. Practice for spelling -- Lay or Lie?   A1 needs to correct this. Remember the difference whether or not it takes an object.  Practice:  Here is the worksheet: recline:put to lie:lay practice.docx  If you are doing this at home,  click on the link, click on the tab for Download. Open the document.  For each of these sentences tell whether the verb form is past, present, future, participle, or perfect. Then change the verb to the correct lie or lay verb. Harold reclines in the arm chair. Harold puts his sister in a car seat. Leslie reclined on the Spongebob Squarepants chair. Leslie put her purse on the Spongebob Squarepants chair. Mark will recline in his hotel room. Mark will put his briefcase in his hotel room. Jimmy has reclined by the pool way too much this summer. Jimmy’s friends have put firecrackers under his lounge chair. Sally is placing a candy on each desk for her classmates.                   Mrs. Dorsey is out of the room, so Sally is reclining under Mrs. Dorsey’s desk, waiting to see her classmates’ reactions when they eat those jelly beans.      These are helpful links: Information about Lie and Lay  Verbs Verb Tense http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/tenses/present_perfect.htm#perfect http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/tenses/past_perfect.htm#perfect http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/tenses/future_perfect.htm#perfect Practice Quiz:  http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/lay-versus-lie-quiz A1 did not read The Outsiders today. 3. More from The Outsiders: A1 read from   page 58, "pg 45, Track 1", minute  21:30 to page 62, beginning of "pg 45, Track 2".  B5, B6, B7 1. Individual Reading 1. Individual Reading Complete this exercise with your Book of the Month.  Copy one paragraph (at least six sentences) from your book.  It is better not to use all dialogue. Underline the words you need to change to convert it from first person to third person or from third person to first person.  If it is written in second person, see me. See the direction sheet provided.    Point of View Switch.docx  If you are doing this at home, click on the link, click on the tab for Download. Open the document.  Make sure you have another student check it.  Then print it to hand in.  You need at least four underlined and changed words, in six sentences or so (or fewer long sentences).  You need your own name and period. You need the title of the book and the page from which you took the passage. Label each paragraph with Point of View. Use correct capitalization and punctuation.   Example Page 92 of The Graveyard Book  The Original:  Third Person  It's going to eat me, he thought bitterly.  Smart, Bod.  And he thought of his home in the graveyard, and now he could no longer remember why he had ever left.  Monster dog or no monster dog, he had to get back home once more.  There were people waiting for him.      He pushed past the beast, jumped down to the next step four feet below, fell his height, landed on his ankle, which twisted underneath him, painfully, and he dropped, heavily, onto the rock.   Changed to First Person     It's going to eat me, I thought bitterly.  Smart, Bod.  And I thought of my home in the graveyard, and now I could no longer remember why I had ever left.  Monster dog or no monster dog, I had to get back home once more.  There were people waiting for me.      I pushed past the beast, jumped down to the next step four feet below, fell my height, landed on my ankle, which twisted underneath me, painfully, and I dropped, heavily, onto the rock.   Another Example:  Page 16 of Michael Vey 5: Storm of Lightning by Richard Paul Evans.  The Original: First Person         The Electroclan and I are on a flight back to the United States from  Taiwan.  We just rescued a young Chinese girl named Jade Dragon from  the Elgen.  We were at a safe house in Taiwan when we learned that the  Timepiece Ranch, the headquarters of the resistance, had been  destroyed by Elgen forces.  The last communication we received from  the voice is that there were no survivors.         For me this is personal.  My mother was at the ranch.  Changed  to Third Person       The Electroclan and Michael are on a flight back to the United States  from Taiwan.  They just rescued a young Chinese girl named Jade  Dragon from the Elgen.  They were at a safe house in Taiwan when they  learned that the Timepiece Ranch, the headquarters of the resistance,  had been destroyed by Elgen forces.  The last communication they  received from the voice is that there were no survivors.         For Michael this is personal.   His mother was at the ranch. 2. Lie or Lay?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3k1xGZH3GI (Lie/Lay) 4 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU20NaE_dfo (Beach Boys) (waves)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG2eGVt6v2o  3. Slip or Trip?  Writing up your evidence with warrants. Slip or Trip Police Report(1).docx 4. If time: More from The Outsiders:  None of the classes got to The Outsiders. B5  read from page 59, "pg 45, Track 1", minute 24:03 to page 64,  "pg 45, Track 2",  minute  3:29.  B6 read from   "page 65,   "pg 45, Track 2",  minute 5:03  to minute 17:00, page 72, "Johnny handed me the knife." B7 read from page 57  "pg 45, Track 1", minute 19:22  to page 60, "pg 45, Track 1", minute 26:01.

If You Were Absent: See above. Here are the directions for Point of View Switch.docx.  Click on the link, click on the tab for Download. Open the document. B-Day: Slip or Trip Police Report(1).docx for B-Day Classes A-Day: Here are the directions for Point of View Switch.docx.  Click on the link, click on the tab for Download. Open the document. Here is the worksheet for lie/lay (spelling) : recline:put to lie:lay practice.docx for A-Day Classes.  Click on the link, click on the tab for Download. Open the document.