Monday/Tuesday, October 29/30, 2018

Announcements and Reminders Monday/Tuesday, October 29/30, 2018: Your spelling test is next time.   C.S.I. Commonly Confused Words, Set 1 Finish reading your book by November 2 (Friday) for A-Day students, and by November 5 (Monday) for B-Day students.  You will bring your collections of evidence for themes, will write about a theme in your book (using the PEE format), and will hand both in.  The Halloween Pumpkins we carved Friday night. I grew them in my garden, my daughters carved them, and two of my grandsons love them!

Targets for Today: I can spell commonly confused words. I can use evidence and explanation to prove a point.

Today’s  Agenda: 1.  Practice for Spelling Test  The dog buried       its            it's      bone in my vegetable garden.  There are        to           too        two         doughnuts left in the box.  Yes,     its           it's        going to be Halloween on Wednesday.   We are going         to            too         two     Haunted Hallways at the high school tomorrow.  My five-year-old grandson thought he had     to               too                two  much candy, so he threw some away.    Its               It's            in the dark cellar.  Are you frightened when you see clowns?   I am       to           too          two       ! How does a ghost like      its             it's          eggs cooked?  Answer:  Terri ---- fried!   Your Book-of-the-Month Project is due Friday (A-Day)  or Monday (B-Day).                           Finding a Point                                             Finding Evidence Date Possible Theme in the Book (complete sentence) Page # How is the theme shown? 10/15/18 Judging too soon leads to mistakes in judgment. 15 A girl at school labels Ponyboy as a hoodlum because frustrated with the dull dissection knife, he pulls out his switchblade in science class.  10/15/18 Nothing good comes from violence. 12/16 Johnny was beaten up by the Socs, and he is also beaten at home.  Working against a common enemy can unite people. pg 29 "[Dally] might get beat up, he might not. Either way there's not going to be any blood feud between our outfit and Shepherd's.  If we needed them tomorrow they'd show, [if they asked us for help], we'd show."   We have more in common than we have differences. pg 40-41  It Says…                      I Say…                    And So…     Evidence (Quote or paraphrase)            Explanation                              My Point "[Dally] might get beat up, he might not. Either way there's not going to be any blood feud between our outfit and Shepherd's.  If we needed them tomorrow they'd show, . . . . if they asked us for help [in a rumble]], we'd show."  The rumbles Two-Bit is talking about here are big battles between Socs and Greasers.  This passage shows us an example of people (different groups of Greasers) who fight among themselves, but  stand together against their common enemy, the Socs.  The Outsiders shows that working against a common enemy can unite people. 2.  Preparing to write PEE paragraphs Today we are changing the order of your IT SAYS, I SAY, AND SO. . .  organizer. AND SO. . .  becomes  the POINT. IT SAYS becomes the EVIDENCE. I SAY becomes the EXPLANATION. Here is an example of Point, Evidence, Explanation.  http://www.mysteryshows.com/5-Minute-Mysteries/Five%20Minute%20Mysteries%20(007)%20No%20Leg%20To%20Stand%20On.mp3  Point -- Evidence -- Explanation Point:  Mike Patterson killed his father. Evidence -- Mike Patterson said he was helping his father, they were facing traffic, and his father was hit from the right. Explanation --  Mike's father used a crutch on the left side, and anyone helping someone with a crutch on the left would help on the right.  If they were facing traffic, Mike would have been on the right side and would have been hit by the car, so Mike is lying.  Also, [Evidence] Mike said his father was hit by a car with Florida license plates in front,  [Explanation] and Florida hasn't had front license plates for years, so Mike must have invented that detail.  A third piece of evidence is that the police officers saw blood on Mike's car.  [Explanation]  Blood on a car could indicate that the driver had hit someone or something. Because we also have evidence that Mike has lied about what happened,  it seems likely that he was the one driving the car that hit and killed his father.  On your half-page, label the point with pink or red, the evidence with blue, and the explanation with green.  Point:   One of the themes in The Outsiders is "Rather than solving anything, violence creates problems."        In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton,  Johnny Cade is a teenage boy who belongs to a group of poor teens known as the Greasers.   "His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him" (12).   Beating a child doesn't solve any problems the parent may be having with the child.  When parents are so harsh with a child, he is apt to have more problems.   The narrator tells us that Johnny was like "a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers" (11).  He is most likely that way because he has been kicked or otherwise hurt too many times.         Ponyboy Curtis, who in the first chapter of the book is being followed by a group of Socs (the richer teens who hate the Greasers), remembers when Johnny Cade was beaten severely by a group of Socs.  "I had seen Johnny after four Socs got ahold of him, and it wasn't pretty.  Johnny was scared of his own shadow after that" (4).    Johnny has been beaten by his own father, then by another group of teens.  Of course it leaves him frightened.         Ponyboy later explains that "Johnny who was the most law-abiding of us, now  [after being beaten by the Socs] carried in his back pocket a six-inch switchblade.  He'd use it, too, if he ever got jumped again" (34).   Therefore, violence, rather than solving anything, has caused Johnny Cade to be afraid, and that fear has become intense enough that he is willing to commit violence himself.   The Outsiders shows us that violence has caused more problems, and could lead to more violence.   3.  The Outsiders  Theme:                           Helps for Finding Theme  Look at the title.  Does that suggest any themes -- big ideas about life and how it should or shouldn't be lived?  As you read, watch for how the main character has changed or what he or she has learned.  Look for Notice and Note Signposts.   Notice and Note Signposts Listen and watch for evidence of themes    Last time to this time:   A2 -- from   page 63  "Make like a farm boy."  2:38 (page 45, part 2)  to chapter 5.  We are now using a Reading Map to read the following chapters.   The Outsiders Reading Road Map, Part 1.docx B5 -- from  (page 45 track 1, minute 4:43) page 47 to  (page 45 track 1, minute 14:33)  page 54 "Want to run for it?"  B6 --  from     chapter 3, 13:25, page 44 "The Socs voice broke into my thoughts." to  (page 45 track 1, minute 14:57) , page 54/55 B8 -- from  page 49, top, (page 45 track 1, minute 6:50)  to  (page 45 track 1, minute 14:37), page 54, "Here they come."

If You Were Absent: Come in to catch up on The Outsiders. The Outsiders Reading Road Map, Part 1.docx -- A2 Notice and Note Signposts Your spelling test is next time.   C.S.I. Commonly Confused Words, Set 1 Finish reading your book by November 2 (Friday) for A-Day students, and by November 5 (Monday) for B-Day students.  You will bring your collections of evidence for themes, will write about a theme in your book (using the PEE format), and will hand both in.

Point:   One of the themes in The Outsiders is "Rather than solving anything, violence creates problems."  Evidence: In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton,  Johnny Cade is a teenage boy who belongs to a group of poor teens known as the Greasers.   "His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him" (12).   Explanation:  Beating a child doesn't solve any problems the parent may be having with the child.  When parents are so harsh with a child, he is apt to have more problems.   The narrator tells us that Johnny was like "a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers" (11).  He is most likely that way because he has been kicked or otherwise hurt too many times.  Evidence:  Ponyboy Curtis, who in the first chapter of the book is being followed by a group of Socs (the richer teens who hate the Greasers), remembers when Johnny Cade was beaten severely by a group of Socs.  "I had seen Johnny after four Socs got ahold of him, and it wasn't pretty.  Johnny was scared of his own shadow after that" (4).   Explanation:  Johnny has been beaten by his own father, then by another group of teens.  Of course it leaves him frightened.   Evidence:  Ponyboy later explains that "Johnny who was the most law-abiding of us, now  [after being beaten by the Socs] carried in his back pocket a six-inch switchblade.  He'd use it, too, if he ever got jumped again" (34).  Explanation:    Therefore, violence, rather than solving anything, has caused Johnny Cade to be afraid, and that fear has become intense enough that he is willing to commit violence himself.   The Outsiders shows us that violence has caused more problems, and could lead to more violence.

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