Announcements and Reminders:
Happy Teachers' Day/Week 2017! I am happy to be your teacher!
End of year:
We will do a locker clean out during Cavetime on Wednesday May 24th. We will have cleaning supplies available for those who need them.
Modified Schedule for May 25th (Yearbook day)
A1 8:15-9:50 Hand out yearbooks and watch Norm Lyde’s movie in the auditorium by all call.
A2 9:55-10:25
A3 10:30-11:00
A4 11:05-11:35
Lunch - 11:40-12:25 Pizza and J-Dawgs
B1 12:30-1:00
B2 1:05-1:35
B3 1:40-2:10
B4 2:15-2:45
We will have JDawgs for lunch on yearbook day. The cost to the students is $2 in cash.
Last Day -- Friday, May 26:
The outside doors will be locked and all students will enter from the west doors at 8:15am. Students report to the theater. Students will stay in the auditorium until 10:00 am, at which time they will be dismissed from school.
Assignment:
Figurative Language and Your Assignment
Figuratively Speaking Poster
By May 11/12 – for English class
Bring a photo of yourself DOING SOMETHING.
In class you will create a poster about that photo including
-1 simile
-1 metaphor
-1 hyperbole
-1 personification
-1 onomatopoeia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9GqATedqPQ
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmjIPRqPChs -1 allusion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_53YsFkFZ4&list=PLX5KCivQH9mwGMbZQcuUmLagm3AExxRcf Extra credit for alliteration (at least three or more repetitions of a sound)
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Targets for Today:
I can recognize and use figurative language:
simile metaphor onomatopoeia hyperbole personification and the sound device alliteration I understand the difference between "literal" and "figurative." |
Today’s Agenda:
In your composition book, next page under Writing Prompts: Label it "Goals" or "Useful?" Label it with today's date. Write at least a half page. Prompt: What is YOUR biggest goal in life? or A goal? or What is it that makes someone useful? or What do you do or what will you do that will make you "useful"? From HONY: What is it that makes someone useful?
How did you do on the SAGE Test? Literal Language and Figurative Language Literal language means exactly what it says, while figurative language uses similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and personification to describe something often through comparison with something different.
--www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson-docs/LiteralFigurativeHandout.pdf
          Read the poem "Mama is a Sunrise," page 400 in our literature textbooks. or http://bookbuilder.cast.org/view.php?op=view&book=42579&page=3 Read the Short Story "Amigo Brothers," page 244 in our literature textbooks. or http://205.186.130.127/images/uploads/Amigo+Brothers+Story%20-%20Piri%20Thomas.pdf Audio: http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/yetcres/multimedia/McDougalLiterature/g07/cd09/Amigo%20Brothers.mp3 B5 needs to take the coordinate adjective post test. (Look at some similar questions.) |
If You Were Absent:
If you are in B5, arrange to take the coordinate adjective post test.
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Vocabulary:
Literal language means exactly what it says, while figurative language uses similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and personification to describe something often through comparison with something different.
--www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson-docs/LiteralFigurativeHandout.pdf
See Literary Terms
Idiom: a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ). Slang: a type of language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of people. |
Mama is a Sunrise
http://bookbuilder.cast.org/view.php?op=view&book=42579&page=3
Amigo Brothers
http://205.186.130.127/images/uploads/Amigo+Brothers+Story%20-%20Piri%20Thomas.pdf
"Early morning sunrises would find them running along the East River. . . "
"Whenever they had met in the ring for sparring sessions, it had always been hot and heavy."
-- Fig. referring to serious passion or emotions.
"But even when joking with each other, they both sensed a wall rising between them."
"slapped skin"?
"Antonio then beat the air with a barrage of body blows and short devastating lefts with an overhead jaw-breaking right."
barrage
a concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area.
"The sunrise was now creating day."
I’ve been awake at night, pulling punches on you, trying not to hurt you.” Idiom -- This time it is literal.
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Idiom: a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ).
Slang: a type of language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of people.
Next Time:
Writing Prompt
Put together Posters, and . . . .
Figurative Language -- 21 questions
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, and Hyperbole
https://create.kahoot.it/#quiz/819f2075-6927-4010-9155-3b39e9414d31