April Book of the Month
We will go to the Media Center on April 26/27.
Sign up by April 28/29
Genre: Historical Fiction
DUE MAY 12/13
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.
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.
About Historical Fiction
English 7 April
Book-of-the-Month Genre:
Historical Fiction
Important Dates: Media
Center April 26/27 Sign up by April 28/29 Due by May 12/13
[Book: at least 100
pages, grade/reading level appropriate,
not read before, not on do-not-read list.]
Bring your historical
fiction book to class each time. You
will have time to read in class.
·
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 true facts and how you found out whether they were
real or imagined.
· You will take notes on the page provided (yellow), or print your own from April 2016 Book of the Month Instructions.docx, or on lined paper. You may do that on the hard copy
or take your notes on the computer and hand them in by printing them or sending
by email.
·
You will create your list as a poster (8 ½ x11
or larger), a prezi, a PowerPoint, a video, or Google Slides.
Include Ten True Facts, your sources, and
three or more illustrations.
- Your work
must be neat and legible and include at least three illustrations that contribute
to or clarify the information presented.
- PowerPoints, videos, Prezies, Google Docs or
Google Slides will be emailed to Mrs. Dorsey. Hard Copy Posters will be turned in in class. Due
dates apply to all.
·
You will turn in this page with your notes when
you turn in your list.
·
For each item you think might be real, record
what it is, whether it turned out to be real or imagined, and how you found
out.
·
As you take notes, include the “facts” you found
out were NOT real, and where you looked to find out.
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Announcements
and Reminders:
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 did not take the comma test and word parts test, come in for Cave Time or after school on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday.
*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:
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Today’s Agenda:
1. Select a book from one of the boxes on the desks or on the rolling table at the front of the room.
2. Individual Reading Time: Read as directed. (We are sampling books)
[A1 practiced lining up for emergency drills.]
3. Poetry
As you read and listen to this, consider these questions:
Who is the intended audience? What is the purpose?
What is the central idea? What is the mood?
 Betty's Room There is no clutter cluttered up (a) more closely, I presume, (b) than the clutter clustered clingingly (c) in my friend, Betty's room. (b) Her mother mutters mawkishly (d) and fills her with such dread. (e) She mutters on about the muss (f) that messes Betty's bed. (e) At bedtime, Betty bounces all (g) her objects to the floor. (h) Each morning, when she wakes up, they (i) go on her bed once more. (h) There's papers, pencils, potpourri. It piques her mother's stress. She pouts. She plies and yet her cries do not clean Betty's mess.
There's partly broken plastic toys,
each with a missing part, some worn and withered whistles, which are close to Betty's heart. Old ballet shoes she cannot lose, and photos of her friends, a burnt-out fuse, some fruity chews, a box of odds and ends. Old magazines and school reports (the ones that got the A's), her worn out jeans, some socks to sort, the programs from three plays. Each object is an artifact, a personal antique. She cannot bear to throw them out; they make her life unique. There's feathers, fans, and fairy dolls -- and mother-daughter strife. Her mother lives for neatness, but, well, mess is Betty's life.
by Denise Rodgers
Copyright© Denise Rodgers
A Little Bit of NonsenseAll Rights Reserved
What is alliteration?
4. About your Comma and Word Parts Tests
*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
Most missed on word parts: tract and tele
5. A Long Walk to Water
A1 -- page 26 to page 31
B5 -- page 20 to page 32 B6 -- page 28 to page 52. B7 -- page 20 to page 28. |
If You Were
Absent:
See above.
Look for an historical fiction book to read for your book of the month.
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A1 on Historical Fiction:
-- something that really happened with some fake parts in it
Topics:
World War I and World War II
Other real wars
slavery
real shipwrecks
situations that real families have found themselves in
immigration
B1 on Historical Fiction
facts
Among the topics: war -- baseball -- prison
historical
based on something that happened
part of it is imagined, part of it is real
