How should the sentence be punctuated? Extra credit if you are the first (and perhaps second) in your class to tell me.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
My Daughter Sent Me This
How should the sentence be punctuated? Extra credit if you are the first (and perhaps second) in your class to tell me.
Monday, February 26, 2018
In the News
I wondered how they would do this:
"Use Visa for a chance to win a trip to a past Olympic Winter Games"
Then I read the rest of the headline:
"Use Visa for a chance to win a trip to a past Olympic Winter Games host city"
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Monday/Tuesday, February 26/28, 2018
Announcements and Reminders for Monday/Tuesday, February 26/28, 2018:
Tomorrow (February 27) is your day to job-shadow. Come back to school on Wednesday!
Leave (or put back) your composition books in your haning folders.  Biography Autobiography/Memoir Literary Nonfiction If you weren't here to get the Nonfiction Book-of-the-Month Assignment, you can download it from here: Finding the Central Idea Graphic Organizer.docx Recommended Nonfiction See the tab above for required reading for more information. |
Targets for Today:
 I can recognize these expository (informational) text structures: descriptive, cause and effect, comparison/contrast, sequence (and chronological), problem and solution. |
Today’s Agenda for Monday/Tuesday, February 26/28, 2018:
Leave your composition books in their hanging folders.
1. Quiet, individual reading time -- If you can, use this time to read your nonfiction books.
If you have not picked a book yet, sample the nonfiction books available on the rolling table at the front of the room. 2. Sign-up for your nonfiction books -- by Wednesday, February 28. 3. Sentence Types Practice. Students practiced recognizing simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Here are a couple of games for practice with sentence types:
4. Students practiced recognizing expository text structures.
Note that Sequence and Chronological are different because sequence shows the order of what repeatedly happens (the metamorphosis of a butterfly) or what should happen (recipes or science experiments or assembling a bicycle).
Chronological order, on the other hand, is about what happened. Example: You were born, then you learned to talk and walk, then you went to kindergarten, then first grade, and so on. It’s time order using days, weeks, months, years. |
If You Were Absent:
See above.
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Vocabulary:
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Help and Enrichment
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Thursday, February 22, 2018
Thursday/Friday, February 22/23, 2018
Announcements and Reminders for Thursday/Friday, February 22/23, 2018:
Finish up your book project and/or slideshow (if still needed) as soon as possible. Share the finished Google slideshow with Ms. Dorsey and check for comments from her. Share your book project Google Doc with Ms. Dorsey, check for comments, revise and edit as needed, then print the document and attach it to the front of your rubric.
Jan BookoftheMonth 2018.docx How They Croaked Teaching Project Rubric.docx Link to the Sample Slideshow: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oSWW8nZtqYtPpTyOqjjbghkZiHUBw9VU3gZIvPP1IhM/edit?usp=sharing' Nonfiction Book Project Our new book project is nonfiction. We will be going to the media center on Thursday and Friday of this week. There are also nonfiction books available for checkout from our classroom. Pick a book and start reading. You will be looking for one or more central ideas in your book and how the central ideas are supported by details in the book. For instance, in the movie, The Greatest Showman, P.T. Barnum learns that the most important goal in life is to develop caring relationships with others. We could find many details in the movie that support that idea. Recommended Nonfiction
Don't forget to complete your eighth-grade registration by February 26.
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Targets for Today:
Reading: Informational Text Standard 2 I can determine central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text;
I can find details to support ideas and conclusions.
Conventions of Standard EnglishLanguage Standard 1 I can demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. a. Explain the function of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences. b. Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas. |
Today’s Agenda for Thursday/Friday, February 22/23, 2018:
Pick up your composition book. 1. Prepare for your test on spelling and other conventions. 2. A1 and B-Day Media Center for a presentation about Nonfiction and time to find books
Conventions of the Week #4.docx
Conventions of the Week #2.docx
plus the main point the author is making about the topic.
Synonyms: main idea, main point, gist.
Examples: A Woman in the House (and Senate)
The Finest Hours: The True Story of A Heroic Sea Rescue
(Supporting details would tell about the odds and what made them insurmountable.)
Non-examples: theme, topic, specific details
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(Introduction, prologue, first chapter --
Where else in a 5 paragraph essay can we find a concise restatement of the main idea? last chapter)
It doesn't always work, but it does often enough to be helpful.
Examples:
My Yosemite by Mike Graf
The first page ends with "Read on, then explore what makes Yosemite special for you."
Central Idea: Yosemite is special to different people for different reasons.
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow 738 pages
"Today we are indisputably the heirs to Hamilton's America [and to his vision of the modern world] (6)."
Superman Versus the Ku Klux Klan by Rick Bowers
The character of Superman “stands guard against threats to human dignity and freedom.” P. 149
The Children of Willesden Lane: A True Story of Survival During World War II by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen
Music gave Lisa Jura the strength to face hard times and an uncertain future (vii).
Choosing Courage: Inspiring True Stories of What it Means to Be a Hero by Peter Collier
This is a theme -- not a central idea!
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A2 Media Center for a presentation about Nonfiction and time to find books |
If You Were Absent:
See above.
Arrange a time to take your test on spelling and other conventions. |
Vocabulary:
plus the main point the author is making about the topic.
Supporting detail is additional information that explains, defines or proves the main idea.
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Help and Enrichment
Study and Review:
Conventions of the Week #4.docx
Conventions of the Week #2.docx
See the helps and enrichment for the previous days we have worked on spelling and conventions. Conjunctions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2biawdXGAiI More About Types of Phrases Reading Comprehension Tips: How to Find Main Ideas in a NonFiction Book Gretchen Wegner https://gretchenwegner.com/2011/12/11/reading-comprehension-tips-how-to-find-main-ideas-in-a-nonfiction-book/ |
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