Wednesday/Thursday, January 3/4, 2018

Announcements and Reminders for January 3/4, 2018:                           Happy New Year! No Cave Time this week. Find your seat and pick up your composition book.  On this day (January 4),  122 years ago, in 1896, Utah became the 45th state in the United States of America.

Targets for Today: I know the difference between nonfiction and fiction. I can take helpful notes while listening to nonfiction pieces. I can determine an author's tone (attitude toward what he or she is writing). I can determine central idea.

Today’s  Agenda: Find your seat and pick up your composition book.  1.  Writing:  Respond to this prompt by writing about a half page in your composition book under QuickWrites.   Label this with today's date and the title "See the Light." You could argue whether the quote is right or wrong.  You could give examples, state an opinion or observation, tell a brief story, write a poem, or respond in another way to the quote.   2.  Nonfiction and Fiction  -- What is the difference? Instructions for Cornell Notes: My Cornell Notes Name                                                              Date                      Subject Main topics/Key Words Notes and My Reactions (MR)                             [Identify Sources)  You will usually add these after you have taken notes on the other side of the page. → Because you will be taking these notes as you listen, make your notes brief, just jotting down key words, dates, phrases. You could use abbreviations. You could sketch a quick picture. You could use symbols that mean something to you. If you have a question about something, add a question mark.  If you are surprised by something, add an exclamation mark.    Summary of what I learned and thought:  (A summary is not required today.) Central Idea:  (Required for this assignment.)   A central idea will be a complete sentence, but not a question, and will include the topic (subject) and what the author is saying about it.   As you listen, watch for repeated words and ideas to help you determine what the central idea is.  I am grading your notes pages on a ✔ for full points (5),  ✔ + adds a point, ✔- subtracts a point or two. A. Nonfiction       1) Example --  Introduction and Chapter from the book  How They Croaked --              (Did not read intro with B5 -- Did I read it to A2?)  Your job -- Take notes. (Cornell Notes)  Determine what the author's tone is. Figure out what the central idea is.        2)   Example -- from a recent podcast from NPR          Your job -- Take notes.   (Cornell Notes)  Determine what the author's tone is. Figure out what the central idea is. http://kuer.org/post/holiday-special-chocolate-cinnamon-bear#stream/0 B.  Fiction -- Historical Fiction        Looking at historical fiction books. Record any you might want to read in your composition book under "Books I Think I'd Like to Read,"  page 31.

If You Were Absent: See above. Things for you to do: 1. Ask me right away for a set of hall pass requests. 2. Write the half-page response to the prompt.  You could argue whether the quote is right or wrong.  You could give examples, state an opinion or observation, tell a brief story, write a poem, or respond in another way to the quote. 3. At home, listen to the podcast from NPR, taking Cornell Notes on it, and writing a central idea for it at the bottom of the page provided.  My Cornell Notes.docx 4.  If you have not already selected a historical fiction book for your January book project,  look through these suggested titles. See the information about Historical Fiction, then scroll down to see the book titles.  Historical Fiction

Vocabulary: Fiction: literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people. (Although we now have authors who write fiction in poetic form, such as in the books Out of the Dust and Witness.)  -- Google Definition, adapted Nonfiction: prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history. (Some nonfiction is written now in the form of poetry.) -- Google Definition, adapted Historical Fiction: a story is made up but is set in the past and borrows true characteristics of the time period in which it is set  -- from http://www.yourdictionary.com/historical-fiction  Tone: is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. The tone can be formal, informal, serious, comic, sarcastic, sad, or cheerful, or it may be any other existing attitude.   from https://literarydevices.net/tone/ Central Idea: The topic plus what the author is saying about the topic in non-fiction. -- Mr. Gillis