Announcements and Reminders:
 Parent Teacher Conference will be tomorrow/tonight, September 13, 3:30 to 5:30 pm. See the red link for more details.
Book orders are due by Friday.
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.
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Targets for Today:
I can show what I know about parts of speech.
I can read my book and prepare for my book-of-the-month discussion. |
Today’s Agenda:
1. CSI: Show what you know about Parts of Speech through -- Test, part 1 and Test, part 2. Testing conditions: NO TALKING EVEN WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED, IF OTHERS ARE STILL TESTING. NO LOOKING AT YOUR NEIGHBORS' PAPERS. DO NOT WRITE ON THE TEST QUESTION PAPER. NEATLY FILL IN THE BUBBLE SHEET. Turn your tests over when you are finished, and quietly read. ____________ In your composition book, number from 1-16. For each, write the part of speech and whether or not you answered correctly. Smiley and Frown or yes and no or check and x? Example: (These are not the correct answers.) 1. noun yes! 2. verb no! 3. adjective Got it! 4. . . . Test, part 2 -- actually practice -- play Kahoot. ABOUT THE BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH Make sure you are bringing your book of the month to class so you can read it when time is provided, or if you finish other tasks early. Notes for your book of the month: This will be handed in and receive points. Receive a tape-in for your compositon book about Characteristics of Descriptive Writing. Tape it in on the next page of your composition book. Narrative Writing -- fictional or nonfictional Lap 1: Description of a Setting -- Think about the setting you will describe -- fictional or nonfiction, one you can use in your narrative. Lap 2: Write a scene (for your story) as a scene from a play Lap 3: Change your scene into regular prose -- a story Lap 4: Put together several scenes to tell a story. See examples, then begin drafting. I have a dog!  |
If You Were Absent:
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Vocabulary:
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Help and Enrichment
Descriptive Writing Sensory Details: Count them off on your fingers! Fingers for Writing with Sensory Images Imagery Examples of Effective Description -- See the description of a place! Description Internal Text Structure -- See the description of a place! Characteristics of descriptive writing
1. Good descriptive writing includes many vivid sensory details that paint a picture and appeals to all of the reader's senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste when appropriate. Descriptive writing may also paint pictures of the feelings the person, place or thing invokes in the writer. In the video section below, watch a teacher use a Five Senses Graphic Organizer as a planning strategy for descriptive writing.
2. Good descriptive writing often makes use of figurative language such as analogies, similes and metaphors to help paint the picture in the reader's mind.
3. Good descriptive writing uses precise language. General adjectives, nouns, and passive verbs do not have a place in good descriptive writing. Use specific adjectives and nouns and strong action verbs to give life to the picture you are painting in the reader's mind.
4. Good descriptive writing is organized. Some ways to organize descriptive writing include: chronological (time), spatial (location), and order of importance. When describing a person, you might begin with a physical description, followed by how that person thinks, feels and acts.
Descriptive sentence:
The following excerpt is from Moominvalley in November by Tove Jansson
The forest was heavy with rain and the trees were absolutely motionless. Everything had withered and died, but right down on the ground the late autumn's secret garden was growing with great vigour straight out of the mouldering earth, a strange vegetation of shiny puffed-up plants that had nothing at all to do with summer. The late blueberry sprigs were yellowish-green and the cranberries as dark as blood. Hidden lichens and mosses began to grow, and they grew like a big soft carpet until they took over the whole forest. There were strong new colours everywhere, and red rowan berries were shining all over the place. But the bracken had turned black.
The following excerpt is from The Magic Circle by Donna Jo Napoli
Luscious rose brittles capture the light in air bubbles that seem to move on a sunny day. They line the outer walls. Bright red buttery caramels form a cornice on every window. Palest of jellied gumdrops stick up in cone-shaped mounds along the roof. I know they are delicious, though I do not indulge myself. Their sight is enough of a pleasure. The entire log house is decorated with candies. I've achieved a harmony of lights and darks that would bring a flush to my Asa's face. I know that. Or maybe I just fool myself into believing that.
Book-of-the--Month
This page will help you prepare: Notes for Book of the Month Discussion for.docxThis is what your book discussion evaluation will look like:    Types of Characters: |
