Wednesday/Thursday, April 19/20, 2017

Announcements and Reminders: Today is April 19 or 20.         Make sure you have finished your short story work for today's class!                The Reading/Listening portion of the SAGE ELA Test will be given  at the beginning of May -- May 1-4.   We are preparing for that now.   Cavetime on Thursday, April 20 will be an assembly for 7th grade.  Writing Assignment:  Next time in this class we will go into the computer lab, and you will write a story.  Here are the topics so you can be thinking about them: Choose one:  Continue This Story -- While out exploring the woods one day, you hear the clouds start to rumble and small drops of rain begin to fall. As you turn to return home, you hear a twig snap in the woods behind you. When you turn around, you see nothing, but you get the feeling that you are being followed. Having a Superpower for a Day A Fantastic Day!   Write about a normal, daily event that turns into something that could not really happen. Animal for a Day Spirit Week Wednesday: hat day Thursday: jersey day (wear your favorite team or club's jersey, t-shirt, or hoody ... this can be a caveman or professional/collegiate teams, et cetera ...  remember dress code still applies, this means you may need an undershirt to go under your jersey) Friday: caveman day (wear your caveman gear or dress up in white, red, and black!)

Targets for Today: I can read a short story and answer text-based questions with evidence-based answers. I can listen and answer questions based on what I listened to.  I can read and comprehend short stories and recognize elements of literature within them.    I can recognize where commas belong in a sentence, and can use them correctly for items in a series,  after first, second, third when in a series, with coordinate adjectives,  with a long introductory phrase or clause, with words or phrases or clauses that interrupt the train of thought, with direct address,  to set off appositives,  to set off the explanatory words with a direct quote,  with compound sentences, in certain dates, places, and addresses, following the greeting in a friendly letter

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Finish correcting short story work.  I will allow about 15 minutes at the beginning of class for finishing and correcting.  If you do not get that done, plan to finish in Cavetime on Friday or at home. Three Skeleton Key Question # and Points 1c = up to 3 3   = up to 5 4a  = up to 4 4b =  up to 2 4c =  up to 2 4d =  up to 2 4e =  up to 2 Total 20 Rikki-tikki-tavi 1 = up to 5 points if you wrote a half page  Bully 2a  = 2 points    animals talk 2b = 2 points     other books, etc. 2c = 2 points     terrible Nagina 2d =  2 points    you and Darzee  3 = 1 point per word with answer and explanation = 5 4 = up to 10 points for 10 boxes filled in -- plot line = 10  Total 28  Smallest Dragon Boy Hand it to Ms. Dorsey, and she will correct it.                                             ↑ Notice the comma for a compound sentence.   2.  Listening Exercise: Read through the questions. Listen to the story, watching for answers.  Answer any questions that you can.  If needed, listen to the story again.   Finish answering the questions.   http://kuer.org/post/untangling-mystery-why-shoelaces-come-untied Watch the short video, too.  3. Commas in a Series and Review Coordinate Commas --        MAKE SURE YOU ARE PREPARED FOR A TEST ON COMMAS!  Coordinate Adjectives with Commas            Rule #3.  When there are two or more coordinate adjectives, use commas between them.  .  If you can test the adjectives by putting “and” between them, they are coordinate.  If you cannot use “and” between them, they are probably not coordinate and will not require a comma.                Another test you can use is to switch the adjectives, and if you can switch them, and they              still sound right, they are probably coordinate.            Example: He is a strong, healthy man. We could also say healthy, strong man. Example: We stayed at an expensive summer resort. We would not say summer expensive resort, so no comma.   From http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/commas.asp Commas in a Series: Rule #1. Use a comma after every item in a series except the last one.  The series, a group of three or more, may be made of words, phrases, or clauses. https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/9f8ed170-f62c-40d6-8eee-e8c694a757a6 Poetry What would you do if you saw this on a test?  What are you seeing here? Writing Assignment:  Next time in this class we will go into the computer lab, and you will write a story.  Here are the topics so you can be thinking about them: Choose one:  Continue This Story -- While out exploring the woods one day, you hear the clouds start to rumble and small drops of rain begin to fall. As you turn to return home, you hear a twig snap in the woods behind you. When you turn around, you see nothing, but you get the feeling that you are being followed. Having a Superpower for a Day A Fantastic Day!   Write about a normal, daily event that turns into something that could not really happen. Animal for a Day

If You Were Absent: See above. You could do the listening exercise on your own. For the short stories, The documents are attached to the assignments on Skyward, and you can find the stories here:  "The Smallest Dragonboy" at http://bookbuilder.cast.org/view_print.php?book=64557 "Rikki-tikki-tavi" at  http://burnet.twpunionschools.org/subsites/smarcario/documents/Rikki-Tikki-Tavi%20Text.pdf or  https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mongoose/rtt.html "Three Skeleton Key" at  http://www.mpsaz.org/taylor/staff/bjdavis/short-stories/files/threeskeletonpdf.pdf

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