Wednesday/Thursday, May 2/3, 2018

Announcements and Reminders for  Wednesday/Thursday, May 2/3, 2018:                           Today is the Day to bring your photo        and create your poster! Be thinking of how you could describe the photo using  simile metaphor hyperbole personification onomatopoeia allusion   -- Here is great example:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snF-FqfJna4 and, for extra credit, alliteration More Examples of Figurative Language! List of Onomatopoiea Words https://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/onomatopoeia-word-list/ Today is also your word parts test.  Symbolic Story Representation  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 the tab for Required Reading/Book Assessments, April/May for more details. We have 19/20 days of school left, including the hour or so on the last day.

Targets for Today: I can recognize Greek word parts and use them to figure out unfamiliar words. I can recognize and use figurative language to enrich the way I describe things.

Today’s  Agenda for Wednesday/Thursday, May 2/3, 2018: 1.  Prepare for your Greek Word Roots test.      Take the Greek Roots test. 2.  Create your figurative language poster.    You need a photo of you doing something.     Write out on scratch paper the sentences that you will use on your poster.  Do not write them on your poster until you have revised and edited them.     Revise to make sure you are using all of the required types of figurative language.     Revise and edit them to make complete, correct sentences.     Check them with a classmate, and, if time, with Ms. Dorsey.     Select a piece of paper to use as a poster.     Attach your photo to the poster paper with tape or glue.     NEATLY write your sentences on the poster.     Label each sentence with the type of figurative language.      Write the sentences large enough for someone viewing the poster to easily read.  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 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 More Examples of Figurative Language!

If You Were Absent: See above.

Vocabulary:

Help and Enrichment  Common Greek Roots auto self automatic, autograph, autobiography, automobile, autocracy bio life biology,  biosphere, biography, biochemistry, biometrics, biophysics graph write graphite, geography, graphic, photograph, phonograph hydro water anhydrous, dehydration,  hydrogen, hydrant, hydrostatic, hydrophobia, hydrotherapy, hydroplane meter measure speedometer,  odometer, metronome, thermometer, chronometer, perimeter, hydrometer ology study of geology, theology, zoology, meteorology, phonology photo light photography, photocopy, photosynthesis, phototropism, photostat,  photogenic scope examine periscope,  stethoscope, telescope, microscope, microscopic tele far telephone, telepathy, telegraph, television therm heat thermos, thermodynamics, thermostat, thermophysics