Friday/Monday, May 4/7, 2018

Announcements and Reminders:                   Our SAGE Reading Test will be on May 10-15. May 23 is the last day to hand in late work, revisions, and  extra credit.  Your book project is due on May 16/17.  You will receive extra credit if you present early.  2018 Symbolic Story Rep.doc See Required Reading/Book Assessments, April/May for more details. We have 19/18 days of school left, including the hour or so on the last day.          This could symbolize me as I visualize watching the play Peter and the Starcatcher.

Targets for Today: I can recognize and use figurative language to enrich the way I describe things.  I can read a play and recognize its parts.  Reading: Literature Standard 5  Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Finish, if needed, your figurative language poster.      (or)     Read your science fiction or fantasy book. allusion   -- Here is great example:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snF-FqfJna4 More Examples of Figurative Language! 2. Quiz on Latin Word Roots 3.  Reading a Play Peter and the Starcatcher  An act in a play is like a chapter in a book. A scene (drama) is a part of an act usually defined with the changing of characters or setting. Cast of Characters for Prologue and Scene 1 Alf    _________________________________ Aster  _________________________________ Boy  _________________________________ Fighting Prawn  _________________________________ Greggors   _________________________________ Grempkin  _________________________________ Molly  _________________________________ Mrs. Bumbrake  _________________________________ Prentiss  _________________________________ Sailor  _________________________________ Sailor  _________________________________ Sailor  _________________________________ Scott  _________________________________ Seamen  _________________________________ Seamen   _________________________________ Seamen  _________________________________ Slank  _________________________________ Smee  _________________________________ Stache  _________________________________ Stage Directions  _________________________________ Ted  _________________________________

If You Were Absent:

Vocabulary:

Help and Enrichment  Figuratively Speaking Poster Grading On time – May 2/3  A-day/B-Day   ______  4 points Brought a photo of self doing something   ______  4 points Created a NEAT, LEGIBLE poster with   ______  4 points  1 simile   ______  3 points 1 metaphor   ______  3 points 1 hyperbole   ______  3 points 1 personification  ______   3 points 1 onomatopoeia  ______   3 points 1 allusion  ______   3 points extra credit for alliteration ________ Correct conventions – caps, punctuation, etc. ______    4 points    Label each type of figurative language.     Total ______  34 More Examples of Figurative Language! simile. A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, (e.g., as brave as a lion). metaphor  a figure of speech in which one object is likened to another (that is unlike it in most ways) by speaking of it as if it were that other.  (e.g., Life is a rollercoaster.) Similes and Metaphors from Richard Peck Hyperbole     An exaggeration that is so dramatic that no one would believe the  statement is true.    "Yo mama's so fat, I had to take a train and two buses just to get on her good side. "  Personification    A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to an animal or an object.    "The sun winked at us from behind a cloud." Onomatopoeia    The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound  or the sound made by an object or an action.     Example: snap, crackle, pop Allusion: an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. "an allusion to Shakespeare" synonyms: reference to, mention of, suggestion of, hint to, intimation of, comment on, remark on "the town's name is an allusion to its founding family" Example:  • “If you want to do well in class, and can choose where you sit, pick a seat by the class Hermione or by the class Einstein.”   -- These are allusions to the Harry Potter books and to a famous real-life person.           Alliteration The repetition of the same initial letter, sound, or group of sounds in a series of words. Alliteration includes tongue twisters. Example: She sells seashells by the seashore. Chart for Examples and Non-Examples of Simile and Metaphor And more examples: Alan Ferko's face turned as red as Bo Peep's pigtail ribbons. -- Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl (2000) Simile: "He [felt] a throbbing like a snake slithering in and out of the tendons in his left leg." -- Kim Russon writing Giver Chapt 24, 2/4/03 Another sample simile: from Heat by Mike Lupica, pg 3 "He . . . saw the fat cop. . . wobbling like a car with a flat tire. . . . " Common Latin Roots audi hear auditory, audience, audit, auditorium, audible, inaudible, audition dict speak dictate, predict, dictator, edict, contradict, dictation, indict, prediction ject throw reject,  inject, projection, interjection, eject, objection, dejection port carry transport, transportation, import, export, porter, portable, report, support rupt break rupture, erupt, eruption, interrupt, interruption, disruption scrib/script write scribe,  describe, manuscript, inscription, transcript, description, prescription spect see, look spectator, inspect, inspector, respect, spectacle, spectacular struct build structure, construct, construction, instruct, destruction, reconstruction tract pull tractor, traction, attract, subtraction, extract, retract, attractive vis, vid see vision, visual, visit,  supervisor, invisible, vista, visualize, visionary http://membean.com/wrotds/spect-see

https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/teachersatwork/the-big-show-helpful-vocabulary-for-teaching-plays/

kqed.net/pdf/arts/programs/spark/theatervocab.pdf

An act in a play is like a chapter in a book.
A scene (drama) is a part of an act usually defined with the changing of characters.