Sunday, December 18, 2016

Monday/Tuesday, December 19/20, 2016



Announcements and Reminders:

Turn in your Article of the Week.

 Get ready for your book assessment. 
  • Make sure you have a central idea that applies to all or a large section of the book.   
  • Make sure you have 7-10 supporting details that support that central idea.
  • Have the page number(s) for each supporting detail.  

 If you are retaking the argument writing vocabulary test on Tuesday, December 20, don't forget to study!    This is for students who received 13 or less on the post test.  Check Skyward and email  for a message from Ms. Dorsey. 

 For next time, think of a scene you would like to describe.  It needs to be real or based on reality.  
You will not tell a story, only describe a place.
It could be your living room on Christmas Morning or Eve, your own bedroom, your yard or another outdoor place, a cathedral you've visited, part of a store, part of the school, a favorite place,  etc.  Choose one of those or your own.

Thursday, December 22, is the last day to hand in late and revised work and extra credit other than unused hall passes. 

Targets for Today:

Understand how to write an effective paragraph.
Understand how to write an effective descriptive paragraph.

Show that you can find one or more central ideas in a nonfiction text, and identify supporting details from the text for the central idea(s).  

Today’s  Agenda:

1. Individual Reading -- If needed, finish preparing for your December Book Assessment

2.   About Writing a Descriptive Paragraph

3. December Book Assessment:  Nonfiction -- Central Idea and Supporting Details
Lab 224  -- Use a Google Doc for writing your Book Assessment.  
Print it and staple it to the FRONT of your rubric.

DecemberBookofMonthRubric.docx

 If you do not finish your book assessment today, you will do it outside of class, and it is due by  December 22.

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4. If you have extra time, continue to work on your How They Croaked Assignments.
Have you handed in

If You Were Absent:
You may complete the book of the month assessment on your own time.
Study the material about creating a descriptive paragraph.  Be prepared to write one of your own next time.  

Vocabulary:
descriptive paragraph:
spacial order:
transition:

Central Idea:
Central Idea will be a complete sentence.
It will include
    •     the topic and  
    •     the idea the author wants you to learn about the topic.
  • It will NOT be a question.  It will be a complete statement.
  • It will be broad enough to cover the big idea(s) in the chapter or paragraph or other passage.
  • It will be narrow enough so it's NOT including things that are not in the chapter or paragraph or other passage.
  •  When you are looking for the central idea of something you are reading, the central idea you find will NOT include your own opinions about the chapter or paragraph or other passage.
Central idea is also called main idea or topic sentence.


More on descriptive paragraphs: http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Descriptive-Paragraph
http://web.clark.edu/martpe/descriptive%20paragr.htm



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