Wednesday/Thursday, October 28/29, 2015

Announcements and Reminders: Book Orders are due October 28. Winners for the Zombie Haiku Contest Ms. Dorsey will no longer be doing intervention for Cavetime on Thursdays.  She will instead host the Mock Trial enrichment.   For the new term you may begin earning extra credit.  I especially encourage you to memorize the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost.  Extra Credit Poem Memorization Something You May Not Have Known About Ms. Dorsey Book-of-the-Month November -- Your choice of genre of novel Element or Aspect of Literature:  Point of View    Notice who is telling the story.  See the point of view chart in your composition book. December -- Fantasy or Science Fiction novel Element or Aspect of Literature: Setting How would the story be different if it were placed in a different setting -- our time and place?  the past? if in the future, a different future setting?  Spelling practice:  https://quizlet.com/102626513/learn

Targets for Today:    I can spell words appropriate to my grade level.    I can recognize elements of literature in a short story.    I can select books to read that are at an appropriate level for me.

Today’s  Agenda:    Pick up your composition book. Spooky Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjPAWbk5jKc Winners for the Zombie Haiku Contest   1. Spelling Practice , Set 1 for Term 2 https://quizlet.com/102626513/learn Test on  October 30/November 2 accept/except I accept the prize with pride. They chose everyone except me.     (Memory trick: They x'd me out!) Accept or Except? break/brake Let us take a break. The brake on the bike was broken. Brake and Break 1) Do not ________________ anything less than the best. (accept/except) 2) Did you _______________ the pencil that is under your desk? (brake/break) 3) I like almost all foods ________________ limburger cheese. (accept/except) 4) When he pushed on the ________________, the car didn't even slow down. (brake/break) 5) Let's take a ______________ after we grade these tests. (brake/break) Answers to Spelling October 28/29 https://quizlet.com/102626513/learn   2.  Halloween Storytime            Listen to Ray Bradbury's short story, "A Sound of Thunder."  (30 minutes)            What is the setting?            What is the point of view?  (See your Point of View chart, if needed.  Is it any of them, or does the audio use only dialogue to tell the story?  See the actual text of the story below.)            How many types of conflict can you find?  (See the list in your composition book.)              Identify the protagonist(s), antagonist(s).             Identify the theme. You can open and print the worksheet from  here.  Click on the download tab.      Literary Elements Review with Sound of Thunder.docx  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9UTjtxWWn8 Here is the text of the story: http://www.rivermill-academy.org/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=22839533 Themes:  Seemingly small things can lead to huge consequences.  (or) Little things can make a big difference. People can have too much money. Everything has a purpose.   Everything is connected. Nothing is too small to be important. (Travis, the tour guide, along with his assistant, Lesperance, leads Eckels and two other hunters, Billings and Kramer, into the time machine and they set off to a time 60,002,055 years before the time they left.  The democratic candidate Keith, the moderate presidential candidate, was elected over Deutscher, the dictatorial candidate.) 3. Media Center!  Find just the right book.               You will have about twenty minutes in the media center.             In the media center you may read the book you have already chosen or look for a book for the November Book of the Month -- Due November 19/20  -- almost any genre of novel.

If You Were Absent: See the above. Study your spelling for the test on October 30/November 2. Listen to the story and fill out the Literary Terms check that that goes with it.