Read the following poem quietly out loud to yourself.
Example:
Without a comma at my command, more
punctuation I would demand.
There'd be no brake to slow the rush of cursor
crayon pen or brush.
My days of writing soon would end without that
modest little friend
Who slips quietly in between the words in series
long or lean.
Now, read it again to figure out where three missing commas should go.
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Commas keep words and ideas from running together in a sentence. They are used between words, phrases, or clauses when there are three or more in a series.
Announcements
and Reminders:
Your Book of the Month Project is due next time.
The time after you will take tests on comma rules and word parts (your magical study guide word parts). Comma games online: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/punctuation.htm -- Select Comma Chameleon Quiz: http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/language_arts/punctuation_comma/quiz2140.html or http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/using_commas/quiz1004.html http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/6_8/grammar/gr6/launcher.html?qid=0605 |
Targets for
Today:
1. I can recognize a theme (central idea) in poetry.
2. I can use commas correctly. 3. I know the seventh grade Greek and Latin word parts! |
Today’s Agenda:
Individual Reading and (hopefully) finish up your Book of the Month project.
Poetry -- Today's Poems
This poem shared by Mrs. Mace -- After Zeno "For my Father" When he was I was. But I still am and he is still. Where is is when is is was? I have an is but where is his? Now here-- no where: such a little fatal pause. There's no sense in past tense. -- by Kay Ryan This poem shared by Ms. Dorsey -- APRIL - POEM BY SARA TEASDALEThe roofs are shining from the rain. The sparrows tritter as they fly, And with a windy April grace The little clouds go by. Yet the back-yards are bare and brown With only one unchanging tree-- I could not be so sure of Spring Save that it sings in me.
Word Parts
A Long Walk to Water
B5 page 17 to page 20 B6 page 25 B7 page 20 |
If You Were
Absent:
See above.
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