Wednesday/Thursday, May 18/19, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                   Today please turn in all books checked out from our classroom. Reminder:  Figuratively Speaking Poster By May 18/19 – for English class Bring a photo of yourself DOING SOMETHING. In class you will create a poster about that photo including  (Change your assignment to ONE each of the following:) -1 simile -1 metaphor -1 hyperbole -1 personification -1 onomotopia -1 allusion extra credit for alliteration (at least three repetitions of the sound)    You will have time to finish next time.  Today we will also retake the SRI Test  in Lab 202. All late and revised work is due by this Friday, May 20. If you have an F, see me.

Targets for Today: I can recognize and write figurative language. I can do my best on a test to determine  my reading level.

Today’s  Agenda: The teacher will send students who have not finished the SAGE Reading test to Computer Lab 224. 1. Review of figurative language Simile and Metaphor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB0HrNdqJKQ (Not all of these are correct, but most are.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoSBVNUO2LU Hyperbole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_ODYCs9CS4 Personification https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMKgLnhelX4 2. Go to  Lab 202 to take the SRI Test.  See the poster on the wall to access the test.  Do your best on this test.  3. When you finish, you may type up your figurative language for your poster or return to the room to work on your poster.    4.  Create your figurative language poster!            If you do not have your photo with you today, go ahead and create the poster and bring the photo tomorrow to attach to your poster.  You will have time to finish next time.

If You Were Absent:  See above.

Sample picture and Figurative Language 

from the famous Ms. Dorsey

Though the night was as dark as pitch, 

seeing the play Nosferatu live on stage was a dream come true.

We were dying to meet the actor who played the title role.

You can tell that the camera loved us as we danced with the vampire after the show.

Thud, thud, stomp, stomp went our feet. 

This was a vampire who neither sparkled nor made girls swoon, 

but spending time with him was a thriller. 

Very soon the villainous, vigorous, voracious vampire 

vanished from view

We will work on this today, and

you will have time to finish next time. 

-1 simile

-1 metaphor

-1 hyperbole

-1 personification

-1 onomotopia

-1 allusion

extra credit for alliteration (at least three repetitions of the sound