 Announcements and Reminders:
Pick up your composition book and then read your nonfiction book quietly. Read the announcements below.
If you need to retake the Argument Vocabulary Test, study for it! We will take it next week -- Tuesday during Cavetime. Argument Terms/Vocabulary. Plan to retake it if you received 13 points or less.
See me if you received less than 28 on your Argument Writing Post Test. Before you do make-up work, review and learn what we have studied about writing an argument essay: what each of the five paragraphs is and what each needs, transitions, formal style, evidence, explanation, citing your sources, etc. I will be available after school on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, December 13-15.
If you haven't signed up for your book of the month, do so now. Please make sure it is nonfiction. Have the book read and be ready to write your assessment on December 19/20.
If you have not finished or revised and edited your Outsiders essay, do that right away!
If you need to retake the Argument Vocabulary Test, study for it! We will take it next week -- Tuesday during Cavetime.
Pick up your composition books.
Santa letters are now available for the Macy's Make-a-Wish Fund Raiser.
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Targets for Today:
I can read a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction.
I can find the central idea in nonfiction.
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Today’s Agenda:
1. Individual Reading
Pick up your composition books. 2. Receive your Article of the Week. Change the due date on the paper to December 19/20.
Put them away!
4. How They Croaked: Tone and Central Idea
Authors make choices!
Class A1-- Continue reading Chapter 2 -- Finish creating a circle chart
to find central idea.
Finished the chart for Julius Caesar
Class A2-- Continue reading Chapter 2 -- Finish creating a circle chart
to find central idea.
(Watched "The Good Death." Noticed tone.)
Finished the chart for Julius Caesar
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Class B5 --Begin Chapter 2 -- create a circle chart to find central idea--
on the back of your questions sheet for King Tut.
Use the "tem-plate" to draw a circle.
View examples.
Read an article about yet another time Tut's mummy was taken out for a new examination. New CT scans reveal strange.docx
For each paragraph, sum up in one sentence what it tell us.
Then we'll come up with an overall central idea for the article.
New CT scans reveal strange, frail visage of Tutankhamun
(B5 working on Julius Caesar -- Hasn't looked at example for that yet.)
We started taking notes on supporting details for the Julius Caesar chapter,
beginning on page 11.
Class B6 (Last time we watched 1 minute and 48 seconds of "The Good Death.")
Begin Chapter 2 on page 11-- create a circle chart to find central idea --
on the back of your questions sheet for King Tut.
Use the "tem-plate" to draw a circle.
View examples.
Read an article about yet another time Tut's mummy was taken out for a new examination. New CT scans reveal strange.docx
For each paragraph, sum up in one sentence what it tell us.
Then we'll come up with an overall central idea for the article.
New CT scans reveal strange, frail visage of Tutankhamun
We started taking notes on supporting details for the Julius Caesar chapter,
beginning on page 11.
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More on Tut:
Finding Central Idea for "King Tut"
http://www.sciencealert.com/news/20142710-26397.html
How to pronounce his name: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/tutankhamen 
Begin Chapter 2 on page 11-- create a circle chart to find central idea --
on the back of your questions sheet for King Tut.
Use the "tem-plate" to draw a circle.
Leave the very center blank for the Central Idea.
Write what you think are important supporting details around that space.
Watch for repeated words and ideas.
What do several sentences and paragraphs have in common?
Around the outside of the the circle, collect words that help create the tone.
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If You Were Absent:
See above.
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Vocabulary:
Central Idea:
Supporting Details: Tone: attitude |
More about King Tut: Another source about King Tut: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/controversial-afterlife-king-tut-180953400/
