Announcements and Reminders:
 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. 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. I am losing my voice today, so I may communicate with you mostly by writing. |
Targets for Today:
I can recognize and use Parts of Speech.
I can recognize the setting, conflict, protagonist, and antagonist in a piece of literature. |
Today’s Agenda:
1.Why learn Parts of Speech? A1, B5, B6 still need 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?
 
you can enjoy using your language more, and you can use your language more effectively. 1. A bit of individual quiet reading of your own book of choice.
2. In your composition books, under notes, you will write down the Eight Parts of Speech.
For each you will include
The Write Source books have helpful definitions, beginning on page 439. You will do this for 1) noun, 2) pronoun 3) adjective, 4) verb, 5) adverb, 6) conjunction, 7) preposition, 8) interjection. Be accurate! You will have about 15 - 20 minutes to do this, so be on task. If you are finished early, continue to read your own book.  3. Receive back your book assessments, and participate in an activity to share. Those who receive back your papers will line up, and the others form another line to move along the first line learning about your books. If you do not have someone opposite you, tell your neighbor in your own line about your book. If you didn't receive a satisfactory grade, complete or revise/redo your book-of-the-month assignment as soon as possible.
4. More from A Long Walk to Water
for B1 and B2
As you read, jot down conflicts you see and which type of conflict it is. Also take notes on any change of setting -- time or place. What conflicts are you seeing in the part you're reading? What is the setting? Did it change?
Stop #1: for A1 and A2
Now, in your composition book, list the problems that Salva has in the part that you just read.
Then --
In your composition book, UNDER CLASS NOTES, 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?
Read again, watching for setting. What changes in setting (time and place) do you observe as you read. Jot them down in your composition book. Stop #2: Discuss Setting
Literary Terms: Setting:
Conflict:
Protagonist:
Antagonist:
A1 is on page 44 or up to 50.
A2 is on page 56.
B5 is on page 50 to 56.
B6 is on page 50 to 56.
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If You Were Absent:
See above for what we did. Catch up on reading A Long Walk to Water in class or during CaveTime. Take notes in your composition book on setting and conflict. See the notes above, and take your own notes on what you observe in your reading about these literary elements. 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
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.
On your poster you will need
Make the best small poster you can -- clearly readable, neat, colorful, informative!
In your composition books, under notes, you will write down the Eight Parts of Speech.
For each you will include
You may use sentences from posters or books. Use the poster at the front the room, the Write Source Books, and other resources available, including your sentence diagramming guide. There are more examples of diagramming posted on the cabinets at the back of the room, and in the handouts file at the front corner of the room.
The Write Source books have helpful definitions, beginning on page 439.
You will do this for 1) noun, 2) pronoun 3) adjective, 4) verb, 5) adverb, 6) conjunction,
7) preposition, 8) interjection.
Be accurate!
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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 Setting: when and where the story takes place More information on Literary Terms: Literary Terms |
