Showing posts with label short story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label short story. Show all posts
Monday, October 14, 2013
Monday, May 3, 2010
May 4/5, 2010
May 4/5, 2010
Don't forget to take the SRI if you haven't done it within the past couple of weeks. You may do it during CaveTime in Lab 223. Bring me your print out.
Finding figurative language in "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"
[B2 and B4 found similes on page 13. B1, A1, A4 still need to do similes.]
A2 needs to correct sentences. Look also at the use of lie/lay.]
Topics for today: Subject-Verb Agreement / Finding subject and verb in a sentence / Lie-lay verbs
Short Story -- Plot Line/Character
B1 -- not yet covered character.
Find plot outlines for our short stories and more about plot here.
The Major Parts of a Plot:
Exposition (introduces characters and setting and the basic situation)
Rising Action (conflict and complications are shown)
Climax (This is the highest point -- the point of greatest tension. At the point of climax, something important changes -- usually the conflict is resolved.)
Falling Action (Tells what happens after the climax. This is a winding up
Resolution -- How did everything end up. "And they all lived happily every after" is a resolution. In "Rikki-
Tikki-Tavi" the resolution tells us that from then on Rikki kept the garden free from snakes.
"The Smallest Dragon Boy" by Anne McCaffrey -- filling in a plot line (33:31)
If you are absent, to read the story and write in your composition book, come in for Cave Time intervention or come after school.
You can read it here: http://ebookbrowse.com/anne-mccaffrey-pern-series-15-the-smallest-dragonboy-pdf-d185149984
Self-Starter: ("The Smallest Dragon Boy")
A. In your textbook, on page 46, read "Make a Connection" and "Quickwrite." Write the quickwrite in your composition book.
See an article about "underdogs" here.
B. Subject-Verb Agreement exercise: Copy these sentences into your composition book, and make corrections.
1. That make Percy a target to monsters.
2. There's magic item's in the book.
3. Ares ask them to go and retrieve his sword.
4. Grover get approval to become a searcher to search for Pan.
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Finding subject and verb in a sentence.
Don't forget to take the SRI if you haven't done it within the past couple of weeks. You may do it during CaveTime in Lab 223. Bring me your print out.
Finding figurative language in "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"
[B2 and B4 found similes on page 13. B1, A1, A4 still need to do similes.]
A2 needs to correct sentences. Look also at the use of lie/lay.]
Topics for today: Subject-Verb Agreement / Finding subject and verb in a sentence / Lie-lay verbs
Short Story -- Plot Line/Character
B1 -- not yet covered character.
Find plot outlines for our short stories and more about plot here.
The Major Parts of a Plot:
Exposition (introduces characters and setting and the basic situation)
Rising Action (conflict and complications are shown)
Climax (This is the highest point -- the point of greatest tension. At the point of climax, something important changes -- usually the conflict is resolved.)
Falling Action (Tells what happens after the climax. This is a winding up
Resolution -- How did everything end up. "And they all lived happily every after" is a resolution. In "Rikki-
Tikki-Tavi" the resolution tells us that from then on Rikki kept the garden free from snakes.
"The Smallest Dragon Boy" by Anne McCaffrey -- filling in a plot line (33:31)
If you are absent, to read the story and write in your composition book, come in for Cave Time intervention or come after school.
You can read it here: http://ebookbrowse.com/anne-mccaffrey-pern-series-15-the-smallest-dragonboy-pdf-d185149984
Self-Starter: ("The Smallest Dragon Boy")
A. In your textbook, on page 46, read "Make a Connection" and "Quickwrite." Write the quickwrite in your composition book.
See an article about "underdogs" here.
B. Subject-Verb Agreement exercise: Copy these sentences into your composition book, and make corrections.
1. That make Percy a target to monsters.
2. There's magic item's in the book.
3. Ares ask them to go and retrieve his sword.
4. Grover get approval to become a searcher to search for Pan.
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C. Read the “Background” on page 46.
D. If you have time, read page 45 about metacognition.
Plot for "The Smallest Dragon Boy" by Anne McCaffrey
Dragonriders of Pern books by Anne McCaffrey -- a list of Dragonriders of Pern books.
Finding subject and verb in a sentence.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
November 13/14, 2008
November 13/14, 2008
Today students handed in their book approvals, and extra credit reading logs if they had them.
Sentence Combining
Students completed a Sentence Combining Worksheet. They learned about combining sentences by taking a key word (adverb, adjective, or participle) from a short sentence to combine with another short sentence. For example:
1. "I passed my English test. I passed it yesterday." (adverb)
This could be changed to "Yesterday, I passed my English test."
2. "Ella did the exercises with ease. The exercises were difficult." (adjective)
This could be changed to "Ella did the difficult exercises with ease."
3. "Joe's dog scares people. Joe's dog snarls." (participle)
This could be changed to "Joe's snarling dog scares people."
Activity 1. Revising Sentences
a) Students completed the chart for looking at the lengths and beginnings of their sentences from an essay they wrote.
(Any students who did not copy, double-space, and print their "Cherished Memory" essays in class last time need to do this at home and bring them to class next time.)
b) Students completed and back of the chart and read and studied information in the Writing and Grammar textbook.
c) Students revised at least 5 sentences from their essays by correcting fragments or run-ons, changing beginnings (for variety or effect), or by dividing or combining sentences.
Activity 2. Short Story
Students worked on filling out a story map as they listened to the short story "The Smallest Dragon Boy."
Example for the Reading Log
I am reading The Hiding Place by Corie Ten Boom with John and Elizabeth Sherrill.
Topic: This book is about a kind, generous family who were persecuted (and some killed) by the Nazis during World War II.
Themes: pp. 4-10 Corrie's father is kind and loving to everyone. He hires people who otherwise couldn't get a job. He pays attention to the children. He "forgets" to charge people for the work he does for them. When the family celebrates the one hundredth birthday of their watch shop, nearly everyone from their community comes, not to celebrate the watch shop, but to honor Corrie's father, whom they love.
Theme: If you want to be loved, love others.
Today students handed in their book approvals, and extra credit reading logs if they had them.
Sentence Combining
Students completed a Sentence Combining Worksheet. They learned about combining sentences by taking a key word (adverb, adjective, or participle) from a short sentence to combine with another short sentence. For example:
1. "I passed my English test. I passed it yesterday." (adverb)
This could be changed to "Yesterday, I passed my English test."
2. "Ella did the exercises with ease. The exercises were difficult." (adjective)
This could be changed to "Ella did the difficult exercises with ease."
3. "Joe's dog scares people. Joe's dog snarls." (participle)
This could be changed to "Joe's snarling dog scares people."
Activity 1. Revising Sentences
a) Students completed the chart for looking at the lengths and beginnings of their sentences from an essay they wrote.
(Any students who did not copy, double-space, and print their "Cherished Memory" essays in class last time need to do this at home and bring them to class next time.)
b) Students completed and back of the chart and read and studied information in the Writing and Grammar textbook.
c) Students revised at least 5 sentences from their essays by correcting fragments or run-ons, changing beginnings (for variety or effect), or by dividing or combining sentences.
Activity 2. Short Story
Students worked on filling out a story map as they listened to the short story "The Smallest Dragon Boy."
Example for the Reading Log
I am reading The Hiding Place by Corie Ten Boom with John and Elizabeth Sherrill.
Topic: This book is about a kind, generous family who were persecuted (and some killed) by the Nazis during World War II.
Themes: pp. 4-10 Corrie's father is kind and loving to everyone. He hires people who otherwise couldn't get a job. He pays attention to the children. He "forgets" to charge people for the work he does for them. When the family celebrates the one hundredth birthday of their watch shop, nearly everyone from their community comes, not to celebrate the watch shop, but to honor Corrie's father, whom they love.
Theme: If you want to be loved, love others.
Monday, November 3, 2008
November 3/4, 2008
November 3/4, 2008
Today more students presented their Book of the Month Club Assessments -- presenting their characters to the class through quotes from their books. If you did not present today, and were not absent, it may be awhile before you can change that zero grade.
We also talked about the genre of science fiction.
Science fiction is fiction (made-up rather than things that have really happened) and usually involves either outer space, technology, or ideas about the future.
Many deal with imagined technology, or with the results of the misuse of technology.
The characters usually act as people would if the situations they are placed in were real.
We shared a poem that works as a riddle, and worked on figuring out what was being described and who was seeing it that way. You could call this a "science fiction" poem!
Here is the poem: (By the way, May Swenson originally came from Utah. She was born in Logan, attended the University of Utah, and became a world-famous poet.)
Southbound. . .
By May Swenson
A tourist came in from Orbitville,
parked in the air, and said:
The creatures of this star
are made of metal and glass.
Through the transparent parts
you can see their guts.
Their feet are round and roll
on diagrams or long
measuring tapes, dark
with white lines.
They have four eyes.
The two in the back are red.
Sometimes you can see a five-eyed
one, with a red eye turning
on the top of his head.
He must be special—
the others respect him,
and go slow
when he passes, winding
among them from behind.
They all hiss as they glide,
like inches, down the marked
tapes. Those soft shapes,
shadowy inside
the hard bodies—are they
their guts or their brains?
We also read the short story, "The Boy with Five Fingers," in preparation for more short stories, and for reading the novel The Giver. This story, like The Giver, looks at a possible post-apolcalyptic future. In other words, in these books, man has destroyed civilization and most of mankind. The story and book deal with what sorts of societies might grow up many years after such an event.
In this case, apocalyse means "any universal or widespread destruction or disaster: the apocalypse of nuclear war."
any universal or widespread destruction or disaster: the apocalypse of nuclear war.
Today more students presented their Book of the Month Club Assessments -- presenting their characters to the class through quotes from their books. If you did not present today, and were not absent, it may be awhile before you can change that zero grade.
We also talked about the genre of science fiction.
Science fiction is fiction (made-up rather than things that have really happened) and usually involves either outer space, technology, or ideas about the future.
Many deal with imagined technology, or with the results of the misuse of technology.
The characters usually act as people would if the situations they are placed in were real.
We shared a poem that works as a riddle, and worked on figuring out what was being described and who was seeing it that way. You could call this a "science fiction" poem!
Here is the poem: (By the way, May Swenson originally came from Utah. She was born in Logan, attended the University of Utah, and became a world-famous poet.)
Southbound. . .
By May Swenson
A tourist came in from Orbitville,
parked in the air, and said:
The creatures of this star
are made of metal and glass.
Through the transparent parts
you can see their guts.
Their feet are round and roll
on diagrams or long
measuring tapes, dark
with white lines.
They have four eyes.
The two in the back are red.
Sometimes you can see a five-eyed
one, with a red eye turning
on the top of his head.
He must be special—
the others respect him,
and go slow
when he passes, winding
among them from behind.
They all hiss as they glide,
like inches, down the marked
tapes. Those soft shapes,
shadowy inside
the hard bodies—are they
their guts or their brains?
We also read the short story, "The Boy with Five Fingers," in preparation for more short stories, and for reading the novel The Giver. This story, like The Giver, looks at a possible post-apolcalyptic future. In other words, in these books, man has destroyed civilization and most of mankind. The story and book deal with what sorts of societies might grow up many years after such an event.
In this case, apocalyse means "any universal or widespread destruction or disaster: the apocalypse of nuclear war."
any universal or widespread destruction or disaster: the apocalypse of nuclear war.
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