Friday/Monday, April 22/25

April Book of the Month

On Friday and Monday

you will receive your Book of the Month assignment papers.

Historical Fiction

April 2016 Book of the Month Instructions.docx

About Historical Fiction

We will go to the Media Center on April 26/27.

Sign up by April 28/29

Genre:  Historical Fiction
DUE MAY 12/13  

at least 100 pages, your reading level, haven’t read before
NOT ON THE DO-NOT-READ LIST
Here is the list of  Books Not Allowed for the Outside Reading Assignment.

• Your book assignment will be to find the "real deal" within your books.  
• What are some facts you learn about the real setting, people, and situation by reading this book?   
• You will be creating a top-ten list of facts and how you found out whether they were real or imagined.
•      Real or not??  How do I find out?   Go online or use a nonfiction book.
           Example: 
           http://www.waterforsouthsudan.org/salvas-story/  (Find out about Salva.)
           http://www.amazon.com/Long-Walk-Water-Based-Story/dp/0547577311   (Beware of reviews. They tell about the book, not about what is real or not.)
              http://www.waterforsouthsudan.org/a-long-walk-to-water-faq/  (Find out about Nya.)

Nuer :  http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Nuer.aspx

No Wikipedia, other wikis, blogs, 

or sites such as answer.com or ask.com.

Announcements and Reminders: Friday, April 22, 2016   Reminders of Emergency Procedures --  Join your A1 class on the playing fields.    Line up alphabetically by last name.  If you have not yet done this, turn in your book of the month project that was due last week -- as soon as possible!  If you have handed it in, pick up the corrected papers from the bottom wire basket for your class.  If you did not take the comma test and word parts test, come in for Cave Time or after school.                                          The retake for the comma test should is ready.  Come for Cave time.   On Friday and Monday you will receive your Book of the Month assignment papers. Your grades for the comma test are on Skyward. The questions that were missed the most included those about these topics: *when you name a person using just one name:          My best friend Sylvia is visiting in town. *when you are using quotation marks *for an indirect quote           Sylvia said that I'm not her best friend. *place names  *introductory phrases or clauses *coordinate adjectives -- using the "and" or "reverse" rule  For games and the rules, go to   Using Commas

Targets for Today: I can learn from reading historical/multicultural fiction. I can analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot). -- Reading: Literature Standard 3 I can compare a fictional account with a nonfiction account of a time, place, or character. Reading: Literature Standard 9  Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history. I can read, understand, and enjoy poetry. I can use commas correctly.

Today’s  Agenda: If you handed in your March book project and have not picked it up yet, pick it up from the bottom wire basket. 1. Individual Reading -- Have you found your book of the month?        You MUST be reading an historical fiction book              during individual reading time.  Your book assignment will be to find the "real deal" within your books.   What are some facts you learn about the real setting, people, and situation by reading this book?    You will be creating a top-ten list of facts and how you found out whether they were real or imagined. Book Talks today --Does anyone have a recommendation? Between Shades of Gray (Stalin)  http://www.betweenshadesofgray.com/ Poetry Science fiction is fiction (made-up rather than things that have really happened) and usually involves either outer space, technology, or ideas about the future. Many deal with imagined technology, or with the results of the misuse of technology. The characters usually act as people would if the situations they are placed in were real. We shared a poem that works as a riddle, and worked on figuring out what was being described and who was seeing it that way. You could call this a "science fiction" poem! Here is the poem: (By the way, May Swenson originally came from Utah. She was born in Logan, attended the University of Utah, and became a world-famous poet.) Southbound. . . By May Swenson A tourist came in from Orbitville, parked in the air, and said: The creatures of this star are made of metal and glass. Through the transparent parts you can see their guts. Their feet are round and roll on diagrams or long measuring tapes, dark with white lines. They have four eyes. The two in the back are red. Sometimes you can see a five-eyed one, with a red eye turning on the top of his head. He must be special— the others respect him, and go slow when he passes, winding among them from behind. They all hiss as they glide, like inches, down the marked tapes. Those soft shapes, shadowy inside the hard bodies—are they their guts or their brains? Poems from Students  -- When here, poem turned in by C.H.  Using Modifiers in Ways that Won't Embarrass You Misused Modifiers Worksheet.docx Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 5.  A Long Walk to Water         A1 --  page 39  to page 48         B5 -- top of page 42 to  page 49         B6 -- page 55 to          B7 -- page 28 to page 33 (did not read last time)

If you were absent, when you come back catch up on the reading in A Long Walk to Water.
Study the poem provided.  What is the answer to the riddle?  What is the alien seeing that he thinks are the intelligent beings on Earth?
What message( theme)  is Ms. Swenson trying to tell us?

Misused Modifiers Worksheet.docx

April 2016 Book of the Month Instructions.docx