Monday/Tuesday, February 13/14, 2017

What I wish for you today is that everyday
for you will be filled with love and joy 
and gratitude for the goodness of life!
Happy Valentines' Day! 

Announcements and Reminders:                           Tuesday is Valentines Day. There will be no school next Monday. There will be NO CAVETIME with Ms. Dorsey on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.  Your next Book-of-the-Month will be  a novel in your choice of genres.     Remember that it needs to be at least 100 pages long,      at your reading level, or at a seventh grade reading level,      and a book you haven't read before. Book sign-ups will be available later in the week. Continue to study your word parts from your magical study guide. I'm waiting for students to earn the extra credit available on the bulletin board about word parts. Today, Tuesday, February 14,  will be an open Cavetime  instead of a request day.   I am losing my voice today, so I will communicate with you mostly by writing.

Targets for Today: I can recognize and use Parts of Speech. I can recognize the conflict, protagonist, and antagonist in  a piece of literature.

Today’s  Agenda: Why learn Parts of Speech? A1 still needs this discussion.  Do you need to understand the vocabulary of football to enjoy watching it?  Do you need to understand the vocabulary of football to play it well?   If you understand the vocabulary of how sentences work,  you can enjoy using your language more,  and you can use your language more effectively.  1. Receive directions for our Parts of Speech Activity.     Follow the directions.     First you will read individually and take notes from books about your part of speech.     After reading time, you will get together in your group to create small posters about your assigned part of speech. You will earn points for participation, quality, and accuracy. In Write Source 2000, the section on Parts of Speech begins on page 439. http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-interjections.html Conjunction Junction:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iov0FE4xydo Interjections:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e24kdjdbtw You have a half hour to study about your part of speech, find a useful definition, create new sentences, create two posters. Be on task!  ___________________________________ Read the books. Find a definition that is helpful to you. (The Write Source 2000 books are a good source for definitions -- starting on page 439.) READ, READ, READ/Study. Bring your proposed sentences to Ms. Dorsey for approval. I will then give you two sheets of card stock. Make the best small posters you can -- clearly readable, neat, colorful, informative! _______________________________________ Create your own sentences. Diagram just one.  You can use your Diagramming Guide and any extra papers provided.  ____________________ Please put away books, papers, etc. Turn your posters in -- to the top wire basket. If you are not done, have one or two people from your group quietly finish up the poster(s).  Another member of the group will read to the worker(s).  2.  More from  A Long Walk to Water   You need the book, and your composition book. Read from page 15 through page 32.  You may read silently or in pairs. I will write notes to you as you read.  So listen for the chimes!   Stop #1: Now, in your composition book, list the problems that Salva has in the part that you read.   Then --  In your composition book, write these definitions: ✎Write this definition: Conflict: the problem in the story  ✎Write the types of conflict (Don't write the examples.) man vs. man        Literary example: The Outsiders man vs. nature   Literary example: Hatchet man vs. society   Literary example: Among the Hidden man vs. the unknown (or the supernatural)     Literary Example:Dracula, Frankenstein, War of the Worlds. The Odyssey man vs. technology      Literary example: parts of 2001: A Space Odyssey man vs. himself       Literary example: Words By Heart (deciding whether to forgive) Then write theses definitions: ✎Antagonist:  the "bad" guy (or force) that causes the problem for the protagonist ✎Protagonist:   the "good" guy -- the main character  ✎Then write down three conflicts you've seen so far in the story -- from the beginning. For each, who or what is the protagonist, and who is the antagonist?            Literary Terms:               Conflict:               Protagonist:               Antagonist: A1 is on page 35. A2 is on page 37. B5 is on page 33.  B6 is on page 33.

If You Were Absent: See above for what we did.        Catch up on reading A Long Walk to Water in class or during CaveTime.       See Ms. Dorsey for a poster assignment.  In the meantime, study the 8 Parts of Speech.  http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/free-printable/writing-printables/parts-speech-sheet Here is a game you can use to practice:  http://www.abcya.com/parts_of_speech.htm To make up the poster assignment,  Follow the directions.     First you will read individually and take notes from books about your part of speech. See Ms. Dorsey for a part of speech.     You will create  a small poster (8 1/2 x 11 -- I have card stock)  about your assigned part of speech.  You will earn points for participation, quality, and accuracy. In Write Source 2000, the section on Parts of Speech begins on page 439. http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-interjections.html On your poster you will need  a useful definition,  one sentence created by you that uses the assigned part of speech.  Underline it in the sentence.   Also create another sentence (keep it simple) and diagram it. You may use your sentence diagramming guide and other helps. Make the best small poster you can -- clearly readable, neat, colorful, informative!

Vocabulary: Conflict: the problem in the story See this link for more information: Conflict Antagonist:  the "bad" guy (or force) that causes the problem for the protagonist Protagonist:   the "good" guy -- the main character  More information on Literary Terms:  Literary Terms

Next time:  Writing --- paragraphs plus