Monday/Tuesday, September 10/11, 2018

Announcements and Reminders for Monday/Tuesday, September 10/11, 2018:                        Parent Teacher Conference will be this Thursday, September 13, 3:30 to 5:30 pm.  See the red link for more details.               Class Code - GKLJW                    Scholastic Book Orders                                           Order Due Date - 09/14/18    Don't forget to bring back your Disclosure Signatures with the VIP form on the back filled out.    7th Eng Disclosure Dorsey 2018-2019 Aug.doc They were due by August 31, but you will still receive most of the points for the VIP when it is handed in.  If you have it, hand it in to your class top wire basket.     Remember to choose and read your  Book-of-the-Month!  (a novel -- any genre)  Sign up for your book, so it can be approved by the teacher.  Sign-ups are due by September 11! Have your book read by September 26/27.  See the tab above for "Required Reading" to learn more about the assignment. To check out books from the classroom, use our Google form.    1. Sign-in to your CANVAS account to access a link (or QR code) to the form.        If you haven't used CANVAS, you can get to it by  signing in on your school email,  clicking on the apps drop-down (in the upper right hand corner,   1. Sign-in to your CANVAS account to access a link (or QR code) to the form.  and selecting CANVAS.   (Or you can go through alpineschool.org to Canvas and log in.) 2. Select English 7 Dorsey. 3.  Open up the Announcement. 4.  Click on the link, and it will take you to the form to fill out.     Tuesday is the anniversary of the tragedies of 9-11-01.

Targets for Today: I can consider what it means to be a hero. I can notice how authors put together effective sentences. I have found a novel to read for my book of the month, and have signed up for that novel.  I understand how I will show my understanding of the novel, of protagonist, antagonist, conflict, static or dynamic characters, and evaluating a book.  I am beginning to understand how to take effective notes of a text. I can show whether I understand what a central idea is. I am beginning to understand figurative language and how it is different from literal language.

Today’s  Agenda for Monday/Tuesday, September 10/11, 2018: 1.  Conventions:  in your composition book Conventions in Sentences Investigati After your last  writing prompt,  copy this sentence into your composition book  Label this CSI #3 and add today's date, September 10 or 11,  2018.  Copy this sentence:  Yesterday I lay awake in the palm of the night.  -- from "The Names" by Billy Collins  Write down three or more things you notice about the sentence (English class things such as punctuation, spelling, parts of speech, sentence type, etc.  The sentences are correct – no errors in it, I hope.)   2.  Book Talk: The Hero  by Ron Woods  Nobody would believe Dennis Leeper was a hero. He was the kind of kid you hid from when he pedaled his rickety bike down the road. But Jamie couldn’t say no when his father asked him to include Dennis in the raft project. For the September Book Project -- I will give a summary, including protagonist, antagonist,  conflict, and static or dynamic characters, without spoilers. I will also give my evaluation of the book. I will show the other students a cover from the book. Book Rating System 1-2  Don't bother reading it: it's a sleeper. 3-4   Read with caution: the book has at least one good part.  5-6   Read it: it's worth it.  7-8  Read without reservation: it's great. 9-10 Throw caution to the wind,  find a comfy chair and some snacks  because you won't be able to put it down.  3. Watching and taking notes on a video/learning about 9/11          Cornell Notes     "The Man in the Red Bandana"         Welles Crowther  My Cornell Notes(1).docx You could use the "key words" section while watching the video,  fill in a few notes and reactions after watching,  then write a brief summary,  and make sure you write a central idea for the video.  There were many heroes of 9-11.  Consider how you would define "hero."    Facts in Brief about Fatalities from 9-11-01 At the World Trade Center on 9-11-2001, 2, 753 people died.   Of those, 343 were New York City Firefighters, 23 were New York City Police Officers, 37 were officers at the Port Authority.  Others died later because of exposure to the toxic dust from the collapse of the towers.   At the Pentagon in Washington, 184 people were killed. In Pennsylvania 40 died when the plane crashed.  4.  Figurative Language in a Poem:  The Names by Billy Collins  The Names by Billy Collins.docx Figurative Language  is language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation. When a writer uses literal language, he or she is simply stating the facts as they are.  In this poem,  the poet has decided to use one name from the many that died on 9-11 for each letter of the alphabet.  He uses figurative language to create a feeling about the loss of so many people and of each individual.  Directions:   As a table group, take turns reading the stanzas, underlining any figurative language.   Help each other, discussing  and underling the phrases and clauses you think are figurative.   More information:   There are many types of figurative language:  (The highlighted ones are the ones we will focus on this year.) Simile Metaphor Personification Onomatopoeia Oxymoron Hyperbole Allusion Idiom Imagery Symbolism Alliteration Assonance Consonance Metonymy  -- attribute or adjunct of the thing meant Synecdoche -- part for whole or whole for part Irony Sarcasm Litotes -- ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (e.g., you won't be sorry, meaning you'll be glad ). Pun Anaphora  -- the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. Tautology -- the saying of the same thing twice in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style (e.g., they arrived one after the other in succession ). Understatement  Facts in Brief about Fatalities from 9-11-01 At the World Trade Center on 9-11-2001, 2, 753 people died.   Of those, 343 were New York City Firefighters, 23 were New York City Police Officers, 37 were officers at the Port Authority.  Others died later because of exposure to the toxic dust from the collapse of the towers.   At the Pentagon in Washington, 184 people were killed. In Pennsylvania 40 died when the plane crashed.   In this poem,  the poet has decided to use one name from the many that died on 9-11 for each letter of the alphabet.  He uses figurative language to create a feeling about the loss of so many people and of each individual.

If You Were Absent: Watch "The Man in the Red Bandana"  http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=11505494 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWKPjSirbcU Take Cornell Notes on the video, making sure you identify a central idea. See the link above. Read the poem:  "The Names," underlining figurative phrases and clauses.  https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-names-3/

Vocabulary: Central Idea:  the point the author most wants you to remember Figurative language is a word or phrase that does not have its normal everyday, literal meaning. It is used by the writer to make a text more interesting or easier to understand.At

Help and Enrichment  A Central Idea will be a complete sentence.   It will include     the topic and       the idea the author wants you to learn about the topic. It will NOT be a question.  It will be a complete statement. It will be broad enough to cover the big idea(s) in the chapter or paragraph or other passage. It will be narrow (specific) enough so it's NOT including things that are not in the chapter or paragraph or other passage.  When you are looking for the central idea of something you are reading, the central idea you find will NOT include your own opinions about the chapter or paragraph or other passage. Central idea is also called main idea or topic sentence. Do not forget to capitalize the beginning of the sentence, and to use end punctuation.   A few Examples of Figurative Language She cried her eyes out. (She still has her eyes, thank goodness, but she cried a lot.) My brother is a pig.   (He is not an animal with a snout and a curly tail.  He messy and/or greedy.) Waiting for my mom to take me to the party was like watching grass grow.  (It seemed to me like a very long time before Mom was ready to drive me to the party.) Other videos for 9-11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmedslmeiUc   Overview of 9-11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-yL4meahjI