Friday/Tuesday, September 1/5, 2017

Announcements and Reminders: for September 1/5.  On September 5  and for the rest of the week we are on Cavetime Schedule. Pick up your composition book from the back. They are in the folders corresponding to your computer number.  Numbers 1-20 are in the crate, and 21 up are in the back of the drawer marked for B5-B7.  Don't forget to study for your spelling test on September 6/7:  Use this document to list your spelling words for our first test:  Personal Spelling Quiz List.doc Here are some suggestions for studying:  Procedure for Studying Spelling Words.doc This list may be helpful in gathering your spelling information: Teacher List.docx On September 5 we will have a fire drill during Cave Time.  Remember to go to your A1 class teacher on the playing fields.          No Cavetime  in Ms. Dorsey's room on September 6.  September 4 is  Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.                                                                                     -- https://www.dol.gov/general/laborday/history  Quotes about Labor                    “I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.” “Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration” “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” –Martin Luther King  “I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.” –John D. Rockefeller  “Nothing will work unless you do.” — Maya Angelou  “My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.” — Indira Gandhi  “The only place success comes before work is the dictionary.” –Vince Lombard  Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. – Ralph Ransom “A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.” – Albert Einstein

Targets for Today: I can notice how a sentence is put together. I can compare a two different stories and the characters in them. I can begin learning about several important elements of literature.

Today’s  Agenda: A1 to Computer Lab 202 --  about a half hour or so to paste your essays into MyAccess and finish them. A2, B5, B7 --   Self-Starter: 1. Set up your composition book.   ( and sign up for leading the pledge) 2.  Conventions in Sentences Investigations  Copy these sentences into your composition book under  CSI Sentences/Grammar. Label this CSI #1 and add today's date.  “I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.” Just below these sentences, write three or more things that you notice about the sentence -- English teacher sorts of things. 3.  Getting Ready for The Outsiders  Our First Class Novel: The Outsiders  We will watch a scene from the movie                       Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.    We will watch a short clip from the novel The Outsiders          by  S. E. Hinton.        Both of these movies are about "outsiders."         And, like you, the narrator of The Outsiders, at the beginning of the book, has just seen a movie with Paul Newman.   Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy                  C. Thomas Howell as Ponyboy Curtis A1, B5, B6 --  Today we will begin learning about some important Elements of Literature.  Discuss:  In the clip from The Outsiders (and in the clip from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), what are the. . .  characters setting  conflict protagonist antagonist  In your composition book, tape the chart on page 100.  We will fill it in together. Elements of Literature Element Definition Example—Butch and Sundance Example --  The Outsiders characters setting conflict protagonist antagonist If you were absent, see this post: Elements of Literature Chart 11-20-14

If You Were Absent: When you come back,  set up your composition book, then put the CSI sentences into your composition book, or you can do it at school once you join our Google Classroom. To join, go to your own school gmail, go up to the right-hand top, click on the "ninebox," select Classroom, click on the plus sign at the upper right to join a class, and enter the code that you get from Ms. Dorsey though a message on Skyward.  Here are the handouts for setting up your composition book: Composition Book Set-Up English 7 2017.docx Table of Contents for English Composition Book.docx  Don't forget to study for your spelling test on September 6/7:  Use this document to list your spelling words for our first test:  Personal Spelling Quiz List.doc Here are some suggestions for studying:  Procedure for Studying Spelling Words.doc This list may be helpful in gathering your spelling information: Teacher List.docx

Vocabulary: Elements of Literature characters: the people setting: the place and time it happens conflict: the problem protagonist:  the good guy or main character antagonist: the bad guy or enemy of the main character términos literarios Protagonista- personaje principal http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/s/a/sam50/vocabLIT.htm argumento plot events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another through cause and consequences clímax climax The most intense, exciting, or important point of something narrador narrator A person who narrates something, esp. a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem