Self-Starter: Homophone editing quiz (with a partner if you wish).
Circle and correct all homophone and other spelling errors in the following selection. Show each correction above the word you circled. There are twelve (intentional) errors.
Your going to have a “test” on your Book-of-the-Month Club book this week. Don’t forget too bring you’re book when you come to class on Thursday or Friday. If you still have alot of reading to do, you’d better get busy! (Don’t forget to keep a reading log as your read.) You’ll be expected to rite about your book using the computer program Word. It would be a good idea between now and then too look for passages in you’re book that show the setting and the point of view two. Be able to explain how you know what the point of view is. Its also important for you to be able to tell about conflict in that novel. Think, to, about what you did and didn’t like about the novel, or what you especially liked. What are it’s best and worst points?
Class Activities:
1. Correct quizzes.
2. Lesson on external text features with Mr. Christensen. Ms. Dorsey read to the students a picture book: Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad. We discussed external text features in the book.
We made a list of external text features including titles, pictures, photos, summary, table of contents, illustrations, headings, subheadings, index, graphs, charts, lists, text boxes, italics, bold face, underlining, change of fonts, change of font size, change of color of text.
3. The Outsiders
B1 - to page 75
B2 -- to page 74
B3 -- to page 79
A1 -- to page 74
A2 -- to page 75
We practiced finding the sorts of evidence in a text that you will need to find in your novel for the test on your book-of-the-month.
