Thursday, January 8, 2015

Thursday, January 8, 2014


 Announcements and Reminders: 
  • If you have not yet  handed in your December Book Assignment, hand it in TODAY.
  • Hand in your hall passes if you are ready to not use any more.  
  • If you were not here to take the post test on writing paragraphs, please see me. 
  • Tape the essay grading into your composition book, if you have not yet done that. 
  • Do not forget to complete your spelling make-up assignment if you have one.
  • Today we will be taking a retake on the central idea test.
  • When you are finished with your test, please quietly read or work on your spelling or another assignment.
  • This term ends on Monday!
  • There will be no cave time intervention today.  If you have an F, turn in your book assignment(s)!

1.  Individual Reading 


2. 
CSI  American Fork


Now Investigating:  Conventions in Sentences Investigation

   
Copy this sentence into your composition book.  Be prepared to share what you notice about it. 


Keith, the boy in rumpled shorts and shirt, did not know he was

 being watched as he entered room 215 of the Mountain View Inn. 

           -- Beverly Cleary, The Mouse and the Motorcycle (1965)


Notice everything you can about the above sentence. 
No more tickets for capital letters at the beginning of the sentence 
or periods at the end. 
It is a correct sentence (I hope), so you are not looking for errors (I hope). 



3. About reading a test that includes a passage for you to read:
  • Read slowly.
  • Read carefully.
  • Read the directions. Pay close attention to what you are being asked to do. 
  • Read through the questions before you read the passage.
  • Then carefully and completely read the passage.
  • Then answer the questions. 
  • Reread as much as you need to.  
  • When looking for the central idea of the whole passage, look for what the whole passage is talking about.  Which central idea choice will cover the whole essay. 
  • Look for the evidence for your answers.  When asked questions about details, scan the passage for words from the question.  
4. Birthdays

5. Take the Central Idea test.  (Mastery Connect)

6. Major Term 3 Goals


7.  If needed, read from The Outsiders, so all the classes are at the same page.
  • A1: page 22 "Why don't you be nice and leave us alone?"
    B5:  Page 25 "Okay, I said. . .  " to page 31 page break
    B6: Page 26  "He'd leave you along if he knew you." -- none today  
    B7: Page 22  "Dally merely shrugged and strolled off." to page 30, top

8. (If time, we will begin working on Argument.)  
Can you solve a case with Evidence, Warrant, and Claim?
Argument: Claim, Evidence, Warrant

Basic Argument
Evidence
(Proof)
Rule
(Warrant)
Conclusion
(Claim)

Major Details







 Explanation of the details

 Central Idea

Today's case:  Case: Slip or Trip?

"Evidence includes concrete, observable information; personal testimony; written documents; and material objects and their condition or appearance."
-- George Hillocks, Jr.  in Teaching Argument Writing: Grades 6-12




Questions about The Outsiders:

1.  What three boys found Johnny after he had been beaten up by the Socs?
2.  How many Socs had beaten up Johnny?
3.  What did Two-Bit lecture Ponyboy about?
4.  Who told Ponyboy that "Things are rough all over."



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