un- and -ist extra credit

Add up to five words that are not on these lists for two points each.   The words must either begin with un- which means not, or end with -ist which means one who. They must be real, dictionary words. 


un- words  un- means not


uncover
undo
unspoken
undisclosed
unmapped
unmarked
unspoiled
uncooked
unmasked
unrequited
unloved
unmitigated
unreal
unappreciated
unsightly
unwashed
unread
unwanted 
unable 
unfit 
unequal 
unearned 
undone
undiscovered
___________
unimaginable
unbelievable
unrestrained
uncomfortable
untouchable
____Thanks, Jeff A. _______________

unaccountable
unaccustomed
uncertain
unconscious
____Thanks, Brandon S. _______________

-ist which means one who (adjective) 

artist

physicist

chemist

physicist

scientist

hypnotist

podiatrist

periodontist

apologist

dentist

flautist 

dramatist

machinist

 novelist

 realist

 socialist

_________________________
biologist
____Thanks, Brandon S. _______________

abolitionist
zoologist
orthodontist
watercolorist
abiogenist
___Thanks, AnneMerie J.______________

Friday, February 3, 2012

Self-Starter:  All students who did not get full points on the quiz should complete the apostrophes practice: Apostrophes 3.   Those who did may read quietly.

Noticing Sentences and Apostrophes

2. Spelling Test on im- words.

Vocabulary/Spelling #9              Test on  February 3

Prefix to study:   im- which means not     

                                   For extra credit, what part of speech are all of these words?

1. impossible
2. improbable
3. imperfect
4. immobile 

3. New Spelling words: Receive the handout for un- and -ist words.

If you wish, you can see this post for an extra credit opportunity:  un- and -ist extra credit

Vocabulary/Spelling #10 and #19   -- Test on February 9 

Vocabulary/Spelling #10              

Suffix to study:   -ist which means one who (nouns)

1. artist
2. physicist
3. chemist

and

Vocabulary/Spelling #19           

 Prefix to study:   un-  which means   not   (adjectives)

1.      unable

2.      unfit

3.      unequal

4.      unearned

5.      undone

4. Read more of Words By Heart.
 
Words By Heart Student Notes 2012.docx
A1    top of page 23             Video to end of spelling bee about 8 minutes in. 
A2    top of page 36             Video to  end of spelling bee about 8 minutes in. 
A3    page 10 to page  25 ?   Video to  end of spelling bee about 8 minutes in. 
A4    page 7, right after  "burdened by something"  to page 20   Video to end of spelling bee about 8 minutes in.  

Your book assessment is on February 9.
Your essay is due by or on February 15.


5. Computer lab  (Lab 201, second half) to do research on the nonfiction background of your book:
Historical Fiction Essay Research.docx
Historical Fiction Books and Topics
 Sample for Historical Fiction Essay
Rubric for Historical Fiction Essay.docx

 
Students who have finished their research could work on their MyAccess narrative story or essay.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

1. Self-Starter  
A. Take E-Reader Survey.

B. In your composition book, under "Editing," combine each set of  sentences into one sentence using commas in a series:
(If you are absent, and want to do this at home, do it on a half-sheet of paper and later tape it into your composition book.)

Set #1: 

1. The fox coughed.
2. The fox gagged.
3. The fox sneezed.
4. The Stinky Cheese Man flew off his back and into the river, where he fell apart.

(from Jon Scieszka, "The Stinky Cheese Man")

Set #2: 

I have  hair the color of carrots in an apricot glaze.

I have skin fair and clear where it isn't freckled.

I have eyes like summer storms.

(from -- Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle -- 2004)

Combining Sentences Using Commas in a Series

 

Example: Her cleats were in her backpack.

Her shin pads were in her backpack.
Her sweats were in her backpack.
Her backpack was slung over her shoulder and heavy with homework.

The above sentences could be combined to become this sentence:

Her cleats, shin pads, and sweats were in her backpack which was heavy with homework and slung over her shoulder.

To practice more with commas in a series, see this post: Commas in a Series

More on apostrophes for those who got less than 20/25.   
Apostrophes 1 and  Apostrophes 2   for those who got under 20 on the test.


2.  Words By Heart 
Words By Heart Student Notes 2012.docx
A1   page 13, halfway down   to top of page 23
A2   page 21, halfway down   to  top of page 36
A3  the beginning of chapter 2, page 10 to
A4  page 7, right after  "burdened by something"  to



Book of the Month Assessment Documents

Historical Fiction Books and Topics

Taking notes while reading:
Historical Fiction Assess Literary Elements. A(1).docx

Questions:
BoM Questions for Jan Feb.doc

Answers:
My January February Book-of-the-Month Assessment.doc 

Grading:
Grading for Jan-Feb Book of the Month.doc

------------------------------------------------- Essay Assignment 

We will hopefully have the computer lab   on February  3rd  and 15th, on the third to do some research and on the fifteenth to finish up your essay if needed. 

Create it as a word document.  You may hand it in prior to February 15th.  

Historical Fiction Essay Research.docx

Book of the Month Essay for Historical Fiction.docx


This will be graded based on your writing a complete essay, presenting your research on the background of your novel, using informal citation, and using seventh-grade-appropriate conventions.

im-

Vocabulary/Spelling #9              Test on  February 3

Prefix to study:   im- which means not

1. impossible
2. improbable  F.Y.I. According to the Random House Dictionary,  the origin of probable is
   Origin:
   1350–1400; Middle English  < Latin probābilis  likely, literally, capable of standing a test, equivalent to probā ( re ) to test ( see probe ) + -bilis -ble
3. imperfect
4. immobile  F.Y.I. If you are mobile, you can move.  A related word is automobile.  "Auto" means "self," and "mobile' means "capable of being moved," so an automobile can move itself.

immobile -- The child is immobile because he has been in an accident and will be moved to the hospital.

imperfect

improbable -- It probably wouldn't happen.

impossible -- This could not be built.

Monday, January 30, 2012

1. Self-Starter 
A. Take the apostrophe quiz. 
B.  Put the two tape-ins into your composition book, and follow the directions.

Notice these examples:

His room smelled of cooked grease, Lysol, and age.   -- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)

Hector's room smelled of gym socks, Hot Cheetos, and lies. -- Jeff Anderson

Mine:  My car smells of Armour-All vinyl cleaner, banana peels, and teenagers.

Now create your own sentence using commas in a series. 

Use this pattern.

[Place] smells of ______________, _____________, and __________________.

To practice more with commas in a series, see this post: Commas in a Series

2.  Words By Heart 
Words By Heart Student Notes 2012.docx
A1  to page 13, halfway down
A2  to page 21, halfway down
A3 to the beginning of chapter 2, page 10
A4 to page 7, right after  "burdened by something"




Book of the Month Assessment Documents
Taking notes while reading:
Historical Fiction Assess Literary Elements. A(1).docx

Questions:
BoM Questions for Jan Feb.doc

Answers:
My January February Book-of-the-Month Assessment.doc 

Grading:
Grading for Jan-Feb Book of the Month.doc

------------------------------------------------- Essay Assignment 

We will hopefully have the computer lab   on February  3rd  and 15th, on the third to do some research and on the fifteenth to finish up your essay if needed. 

Create it as a word document.  You may hand it in prior to February 15th.  

Historical Fiction Essay Research.docx

Book of the Month Essay for Historical Fiction.docx


This will be graded based on your writing a complete essay, presenting your research on the background of your novel, using informal citation, and using seventh-grade-appropriate conventions.

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/apostrophes.htm

Commas in a Series

Here is a game -- firing at spaceships -- that reviews commas in a series.
http://www.childu.com/sample_act/34lang_confusion.html

Using Commas Between Adjectives

 

Commas in a Series

 

 

 

 

Historical Fiction Books and Topics

Here are many of the books that 

students  have chosen in previous years:

1. All Quiet on the Western Front:  World War I, trench warfare
2. A Long Way from Chicago:  Great Depression, 1930's, Illinois
3. A Thousand Never Evers: South during the Civil Rights Movement, 1963
4. Across Five Aprils:  Civil War, Southern Illinois
5. Adventures of Tom Sawyer:   Mississippi River town in the early 19th century
6. All Capone Does My Shirts: Alcatraz, Great Depression, Al Capone, autism
7. Assassin: John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Reconstruction
8. Black Storm Comin':  Pony Express, racial tensions, wagon trains, Civil War
9. Book of the Lion: Crusades, King Richard
10. Book Thief, The :  World War II, Holocaust, Dachau
11. Boy in the Striped Pajamas:  World War II, Concentration Camps, Holocaust, Auschwitz
12. Caged Eagles:  Canada, World War II, Pearl Harbor, Japanese Internment
13. Chains: slavery, Revolutionary War
14. Charley Skedaddle:  Civil War
15. Charlotte's Rose: Mormon handcart pioneers
16. Crossing the Wire:  illegal aliens, border between U.S. and Mexico
17. Deadly:  Typhoid Mary
18. Devil’s Arithmetic, The:  Holocaust, World War II
19. Devil's Paintbox:  1865, drought, Kansas, Seattle lumber camps, Oregon Trail, smallpox
20. Doomed Queen Anne:  Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII, England
21. Elijah of Buxton:  slavery, Buxton, Canada,  slave catchers
22. Emil and Karl:  Holocaust, Vienna, World War II
23. Fever, 1793: yellow fever, Philadelphia, epidemic
24. Forge: Valley Forge, runaway slaves, Revolutionary War 
25. Friedrich:  1830's, Germany, Hitler, Jewish
26. Help, The;  Civil Rights, Medgar Evers   The Help
27. Hero’s Don’t Run:  World War II, Pacific Theatre
28. Honus and Me: Honus Wagner, baseball, baseball cards, 1909 World Series
29. Jimmy Spoon: Old West, Shoshoni Indians, Chief Washakie
30. Journal of Ben Uchida:  Japanese-Americans, internment camps, World War II, Pearl Harbor http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/journal-ben-uchida-discussion-guide http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/japan_internment_camps.htm
31. Light in the Forest:  Pennsylvanian Colony, Lenni Lenape tribe, territorial wars
32. Little House on the Prairie: The First Four Years:  South Dakota prairie, pioneers, 1880's
33. Lunch Box Dream:  The Civil Rights Movement
34. Matilda Bone: medieval English village, medicine in the Middle Ages,  leech, barber-surgeon, apothecary, bonesetter
35. Midwife's Apprentice:  Middle Ages (Medieval), midwifery, medicine in the Middle Ages
36. Moon Over Manifest: World War I, Great Depression, Ku Klux Klan, immigrants, coal mining
37. Most Beautiful Place in the World, The:  Guatemala, poverty
38. My Brother Sam is Dead:  Revolutionary War
39. Nightjohn:  slavery, 1850’s U.S. South,  Civil War
40. Numbering All the Bones:  Civil War, slavery, Prisoner of War,  Andersonville Prison, Clara Barton
41. Number the Stars:  Holocaust , World War II, Resistance
42. Once by Morris Gleitzman: Poland, World War II 
43. Out of the Dust:  Great Depression, Dust Bowl 
44. Rifles for Watie: Civil War, Cherokee Indian rebels
45. Rilla of Ingleside:  World War I, Canada, Red Cross
46. River Between Us, The:  beginning of Civil War, 1916, 1861, Camp Defiance, slavery
47. Rumors of War: World War II
48. Run Away Home: 1886, Apache Indians,Geronimo, reservations, African Americans
49. Sacagawea: Girl of the Shining Mountains:
50. Secret Life of Bees, The:  South Carolina, 1964, racism,
51. Shades of Gray: Civil War, Reconstruction
52. Shakeress, The: Shakers, religious movements in the 1820s and '30s, orphans
53. Shakespeare Stealer,  Shakespeare’s Scribe, Shakespeare’s Spy:  Shakespeare, Globe Theater, 1600’s,  black plague, Elizabethan England
54. Slave Dancer:  1840, slave ships, slavery, New Orleans, Africa
55. Someone Named Eva:  Lebensborn center in Poland, Nazi, World War II
56. Sounder: Civil Rights,  sharecroppers, early nineteenth century 
57. Steal Away. . . to freedom by Jennifer Armstrong:  slavery
58. Summer of My German Soldier: Nazi, prisoners of war (POW camp), internment camp
59. True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The:   1832 transatlantic crossing, Puritans, mutiny
60. Tucket's Travels: Mr. Tucket: Old West, Oregon Trail, Pawnee Indians
61. Under the Blood Red Sun:  World War II, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Japanese-Americans
62. Vietnam #1: I Pledge Allegiance : Vietnam War, draft, U.S. Navy
63. War Horse: World War I, cavalry, trench warfare  War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
64. Witch of Blackbird Pond, The: Colony of Connecticut in 1687, religious intolerance, Puritanism,  Quakers 
65. Woods Runner:  Revolutionary War, Hessians
66. Words in the Dust: Afghanistan after the defeat of the Taliban
67. Year of the Hangman, The :  This is actually speculative fiction, grounded in our past history.  It asks, what would have happened if the British had won the Revolutionary War? 

Assignment from a previous year: 
Historical Fiction Essay -- due February 15

Historical Fiction Essay Research.docx

Book of the Month Essay for Historical Fiction.docx
The essay will be graded based on your writing a complete essay, presenting your research on the background of your novel, using informal citation, and using seventh-grade-appropriate conventions.

Book of the Month Literary Elements Assessment -- due February 9 Taking notes while reading: Historical Fiction Assess Literary Elements. A(1).docx Questions: BoM Questions for Jan Feb.doc Answers: My January February Book-of-the-Month Assessment.doc  Grading: Grading for Jan-Feb Book of the Month.doc

This is No-Name-Calling Week

Watch the video and find other information at
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/no-name-calling-books-childrens-books/379002621/?&cm_mmc=Facebook-_-BN-_-product_page-_-no_name_calling

Look Forward to Reading This Book in Ninth Grade!

Commas in a Series

The comma before the conjunction (and) is called the Oxford Comma.

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/grammar-s-great-divide-the-oxford-comma-ted-ed

https://thewritelife.com/is-the-oxford-comma-necessary/#.WaoimMvYxv4.facebook

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Self-Starter:  Apostrophes: How'd They Do it?

Apostrophe WDYN.docx

Vocabulary/Spelling #8              Test on January 26

 Suffix to study:   -ful which means full of, characterized by (adjective)

1. careful
2. beautiful
3. useful
4. helpful
5. frightful

New Words and Word Part:

Vocabulary/Spelling #9              Test on  February 3

Prefix to study:   im- which means not

1. impossible
2. improbable
3. imperfect
4. immobile

Lesson on Conflict 

ConflictMovieClipsathome.pptx

Words By Heart

A1 from top of page 3
A2 from  page 5, middle of page
A3 from beginning
A4 from beginning

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Self-Starter:  Apostrophes -- Notice: What is the difference between Version 1 and Version 2?
Version #1
It's true.  I don't like her Christmas tree at all.
versus
Version #2
Don't even get me started about my Aunt Rose's Christmas tree.  First of all, it's aluminum.  Second of all, it's pink.  I mean, like the color of PeptoBismol, which makes sense, because I get sick to my stomach just looking at it. -- Neal Shusterman, The Schwa Was Here (2006)

_________________________________
This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast.

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold.

      -- William Carlos Williams

Would you have. . . ?
Would you have forgiven the speaker in the poem for eating the plums you had been saving for breakfast? 
Would you have eaten the plums? 
Answer these two questions, then write until you have at least a half page, responding to any part or all of the poem. 


_____________________________________

Computer Lab -- Revise and finish essays/stories on MyAccess.

If you have extra time,
you could do research on the background of your historical fiction book.
(research handout)  

Historical Fiction Essay Research.docx

Historical Fiction Assess Literary Elements. A(1).docx

BoM Questions for Jan Feb.doc My January February Book-of-the-Month Assessment.doc Grading for Jan-Feb Book of the Month.doc

This is No-Name-Calling Week

 

Originally published 1/20/12

More Poems for Words By Heart/Historical Fiction

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15609
Let America Be America Again

Wow! It's Grammar Ninja!

This is an interactive game. 
http://www.kwarp.com/portfolio/grammarninja.html

Three Little Pigs if Told By Shakespeare

Three Little Pigs if Told By Shakespeare

The Help

The Help By Kathryn Stockett Character List and Analysis Eugenia "Skeeter" Phela, etc. 

Skeeter is the 22-year-old privileged daughter of a cotton plantation owner. She returns to Jackson, Mississippi, following her college graduation and finds that her perspective on the division between white Southern households and black maids has changed. Skeeter wants to be a writer, but her mother wants her to be a wife. Skeeter falls for the senator's son but the romance ends when Stuart learns of her civil rights leanings. She approaches an editor in New York City with the idea of writing about black maids in her town and is tentatively given approval. The project begins her transformation from the woman she was raised to be to the independent, brave woman who chooses her own path.

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/The-Help-Character-List-and-Analysis-Eugenia-Skeeter-Phelan.id-325,pageNum-2.html

Aibileen is a wise and weathered black maid who has raised seven white children. She works for Elizabeth Leefolt and adores toddler Mae Mobley Leefolt— even though she knows that the loving relationship could hurt them both. Aibileen has changed since her son's death, and she finds that she cannot accept the way things are so easily now. The book she writes with Skeeter and the other maids empowers her to stand up for injustices. She teaches the children she raises that the color of skin does not matter but love and kindness do; but she often feels that the message is countered by the racism in Jackson. Aibileen realizes she has more to offer in life than being a maid and finds the courage to try something new.

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/The-Help-Character-List-and-Analysis-Eugenia-Skeeter-Phelan.id-325,pageNum-2.html

Minny, a black maid and Aibileen's best friend, has five children and is married to Leroy. She is highly regarded for her cooking skills, but her outspokenness often leads to getting fired. Minny develops an uneasy friendship with her employer, Celia Rae, who becomes devoted to her. Celia and Minny gain strength from each other, leading them to take control of their own lives. In the end, Minny decides to leave her abusive husband and chart an unknown course rather than live with the pain he inflicts.

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/The-Help-Character-List-and-Analysis-Eugenia-Skeeter-Phelan.id-325,pageNum-2.html

Hilly is Skeeter's childhood friend turned wealthy Jackson socialite. She is the president of the Junior League and married to a future politician. She enforces the need for segregation and punishes anyone who disagrees. Hilly tries to control the white women in Jackson, Mississippi, and holds tight to power through blackmail, and threats. When her social status declines, she becomes desperate and pitiful.
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/The-Help-Character-List-and-Analysis-Eugenia-Skeeter-Phelan.id-325,pageNum-2.html 

War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

Links:
http://www.michaelmorpurgo.com/books/war-horse/

Friday, January 20, 2012

1. Self-Starter: What Do You Notice?

Title: What Do You Notice?  -- You will tape a half-sheet handout  into your composition book under “Editing.” This is what is on the half-sheet:
What do you notice about these sentences?    Write about three things you notice about them.  What you notice could be about individual sentences or about all of them. Begin at least three sentences with  “I notice that. . . .” (Your “noticings” should be about the sentences themselves, not where they’re from or who wrote them.)
1.  Harold's eyes were glued to the floor.  He couldn't look.
2.  Harold is in the principal's office.  

  --Dav Pilkey, Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Potty People (2006)

3.  Spelda tousled her son’s thick, black hair. 
        -- Paul Stewart and Chris Riddle, The Edge Chronicles: Beyond the Deep Woods (1999)
4.  Mac’s office is located in the East Wing boys’ bathroom, fourth stall from the high window.    
         -- Chris Rylander, The Fourth Stall

You could notice many different kinds of things, but here is something I hope you'll notice.  

Noticing Sentences and Apostrophes

______________________________________


2.  Spelling test on "il-" words
See illustrations for the words here:  Illustrations for il-

3.  New Words: Vocabulary/Spelling #8              Test on January 26

 Suffix to study:   -ful which means full of, characterized by (adjective)

1. careful
2. beautiful
3. useful
4. helpful
5. frightful 

 

4.  Poem and discussion:

MERRY-GO-ROUND  by Langston Hughes 


Where is the Jim Crow section
On this merry-go-round,
Mister, cause I want to ride?
Down South where I come from
White and colored
Can't sit side by side.
Down South on the train
There's a Jim Crow car.
On the bus we're put in the back—
But there ain't no back
To a merry-go-round!
Where's the horse
For a kid that's black?

_______________________

5. Character:  How does an author reveal information about a character?

Examples from the opening scene of the movie Tangled: 

The narrator shows us what Mother Gothel does.   She hoards the flower.  She steals the baby.  

The narrator tells us that the king and queen are beloved by their people. 

We hear what Mother Gothel says and how she says it when she is explaining to Rapunzel why she can't go outside.

 ________________________ 

Begin Words By Heart.
A1 to top of page 3
A2 to page 5, middle of page
A3 did not read today
A4

We noticed ways that the author showed us what some of the characters are like.
We also pointed out in A2 some conflict and a theme.

Conflict:  Lena vs. Winslow  = man vs. man
Theme: Those who are considered weak or foolish can sometimes overcome the strong and supposedly wise.


See   Third Term Requirements.
Words By Heart Student Notes 2012.docx


Research and Essay for Historical Fiction:
Book of the Month Essay for Historical Fiction.docx

Historical Fiction Essay Research.docx

Book of the Month Assessment Documents
Taking Notes;
Historical Fiction Assess Literary Elements. A(1).docx

Questions:  BoM Questions for Jan Feb.doc Answering the Questions in class on February 9: My January February Book-of-the-Month Assessment.doc Grading: Grading for Jan-Feb Book of the Month.doc

 ______________________________________________________

Poems for Words By Heart

A Poem to Go with Words By Heart and the Topic of Identity

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/thismonth/civilrights/index1.html

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Self-Starter: Pick up your composition book.  When done you will put it back into the proper crate for the class period you are in this semester.
In the section "Notes and Quickwrites," label this: Prejudice
What could you say to someone who hates people because of their color, religion, or where they come from?   Write at least a half page.

Poem Discussion:

Incident

by Countee Cullen

Once riding in old Baltimore,

    Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,

I saw a Baltimorean

    Keep looking straight at me.

Now I was eight and very small,

    And he was no whit bigger,

And so I smiled, but he poked out

    His tongue, and called me, "N-----."

I saw the whole of Baltimore

    From May until December;

Of all the things that happened there

    That's all that I remember.

Two!  Two!  Two for the Price of One!  

You will read one  historical fiction novel of your choice and base both your reading assignment and your writing assignment on it.  Have your book read by February 9.
Together we will read Words By Heart.

Learning about Historical Fiction cloze activity (fill-in the blanks).
Portrayed means shown, depicted, described, represented.

Historical Fiction Assignment:
Receive book assignment: Literary Elements in Historical Fiction
Brainstorm:  What do I need to learn to be successful doing this assignment?  
A1 still needs to do this.
A1 went over this.

Receive writing assignment: Researching and Writing to Answer Questions about History
Brainstorm:  What do I need to learn to be successful doing this assignment? 
Answers: How to write an interesting essay
Putting together important ideas
                                     Using informal citation
                                     Effectively doing research
                                     Using transitions in an essay

Words By Heart Student Notes 2012.docx
Historical Fiction Assess. A.docx
Book of the Month Essay for Historical Fiction.docx

 
A1 and A2 went over this.

Book Sell

Begin Words By Heart.
A1  Did not have time.
A2
A3
A4



See   Third Term Requirements.

Next time: Spelling Test on il-  It means not.
[themes and topics?]

Parts of a Paragraph, Essay, and Fictional Story

Comparing the Parts of Three Types of Writing
	Paragraph	Essay	Fiction
Beginning	topic Sentence	introductory paragraph with thesis (overall topic sentence)	exposition
Middle	supporting details – body	supporting paragraphs  -- body	rising action, climax, falling action
End	concluding sentence	concluding paragraph  with overall concluding sentence	resolution

Third Term Requirements

Historical Fiction Unit -- What you need to know and show that you know
	o   Together we will read the historical fiction novel Words By Heart. o   You will select another historical fiction novel to read.  Pick one from a time period you would like to learn more about because you will be doing research on that subject and writing an essay to present what you learned.  You will also be watching in your novel for character, conflict, and theme.  Historical Fiction
	Apostrophes – how to use them to show possession and contraction
	Capitalization – how to capitalize for the beginnings of sentences and proper nouns  (This is a review of earlier in the year.)
	Character -how the author shows you what the character is like
	Commas in a series – using commas when you have a series of ideas
	Commonly Confused Words – continue to use them correctly
	Conflict – what conflict is and types of conflict in literature
	Context clues – how to figure out what a word or phrase means by using the words around it
	Figurative language – recognizing simile, metaphor, and personification   Chart for Examples and Non-Examples of Simile and Metaphor     Figurative Language
	Inquiry – asking and answering questions – doing research and presenting what you found out
	Poetry – knowing how to read poetry and recognizing main idea (theme) and mood in poetry Poems for Words By Heart
	More Prefixes and Suffixes and spelling words using them
	Subject-Verb Agreement   Subject-Verb Agreement
	Theme  -- How to recognize a theme
	Words – choosing the best words for your purpose (and using the dictionary and thesaurus)
	Writing an Essay – about your subject for historical fiction – using an introduction with a thesis (topic sentence), supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion.
	Other writing such as writing a narrative (truth or fiction)
	Taking a test – successful testing – hints and helps