Announcements and Reminders for Thursday/Friday, November 8/9, 2018:
Carefully read these announcements and reminders.
  Book-of-the-Month for October: Today you will have an opportunity to finish up your PEE writing: Point-Evidence-Explanation for a theme in your realistic fiction book.
Not getting it? See "Help and Enrichment" at this link:
The checks on Skyward indicate whether you have
1. included an appropriate theme for your book, and 2. finished writing your evidence and explanation. (If you don't have those checks, go back and finish -- and edit carefully.) 
Your next book-of-the-month will be participating in a book group reading dystopian fiction. We will read the books in class.
The December book assignment is a book you have already read that has affected or influenced you. You could get started rereading your book right away. You will write a letter to the author (living or dead) about how the book has affected you personally. These will be entered in a nationwide contest.
  The Outsiders Remember that you can earn extra credit by memorizing the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay." Extra Credit Poem Memorization Assignment: You have a new assignment on CANVAS to write a set of Text Messages from one Outsiders character to another. You will select one scene and imagine that a character could text another character about what's going on. Complete this and turn it in by Thanksgiving Break. You will use a Fake Text Message Generator and turn it in on CANVAS.
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Targets for Today:
I can show that I know how to spell commonly confused words.
I can identify subjects and predicates (verbs) in sentences. I can finish writing my book of the month assessment -- PEE Writing about Theme -- with an appropriate theme and effective evidence and explanation. |
Today’s Agenda for Thursday/Friday, November 8/9, 2018:
Nouns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0m89e9oZko Verbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EicxQxzsW4 Carefully read the announcements and reminders.
Spelling Tests
1 Spelling Test #2. When you are finished, turn it over. We will correct these together. Make sure your corrector has corrected it correctly. Turn it in to the top wire basket. 2. (Ask for the retake if you need it.) Turn it in to the top wire basket. If I finish early, I can take the retake, draw on the back, read a book, or rest my eyes. Next time, the test will be on
________________________________________________________________  Complete Sentences Subject and Verb
Time to finish your PEE Writing -- your Book-of-the-Month Assessment. Look at Ms. Dorsey's comments: Student Demonstration Samples:
The following is from a student, Brielle B.
One of the themes in the novel Restart By Gordan Korman is " Honesty is the best policy" When Chase, Bear, and Aaron are sent to the principles office. Chase takes the easy way out and is faced with consequences. [This needs the page number.] When they're sent to the principles office It would be a lot easier for the principle andChase, if Chase would lie and go with Aaron and Bear's way. So Chase chooses to lie about what happened in the band room. While he is now free from consequences of "causing" what happened in the band room. He then is faced with losing his friends. Chase Is honest with the Judge. He doesn't lie. In the end everything works out. [This needs the page number.] Chase has everything lined up for him not to have to go to jail, But the judge asks him if he can promise to never go back to his old self. He (Chase) has a choice. He could either promise he'll never go back to his old self or he could be honest and tell the truth. He chooses to take the risk of being honest. He tells the judge that although he could try as hard as he might, he cannot promise he will never go back to his old ways. In this way he is honest. Everything works out fine, And Chase is able to restart without a guilty conscience Another sample: One of the main themes in Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli is "Be yourself instead of trying to be someone else and you will be happier." The author expresses this theme when he says, "So I just enjoyed the feeling and watched the once amorphous student body separate itself into hundreds of individuals. Ironically, as we discovered and distinguished ourselves, a new collective came into being - a vitality, a presence, a spirit that had not been there before" (41). This shows that the students of Mica High School were all very similar until Stargirl showed up. They would separate each other into groups, but they were all basically the same. Once Stargirl showed up, they chose to be themselves and be different, instead of trying to be like everyone else. This made them much happier because if you be yourself you will be happier.
More evidence that shows this theme is stated when the author says, "'Why can't you be normal?' 'Why do you wanna be so different? "(67) Stargirl was different than everyone else, but she was happier because of this. This is revealed when the author says, "She laughed when there was no joke, she danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school" (15).
Thank you, Adam F. !  1. Double check to make sure you have revised and edited your work.
2. Read The Outsiders and answer the questions on your Reading Road Map.
Hand in your handwritten draft and your goldenrod worksheet before you leave.
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If You Were Absent:
Arrange with the teacher for a time to take the spelling test(s). Make sure you understand what a noun is and what a verb is, and how to find the subject and verb in a sentence. Finish and edit your PEE Writing about a theme in your Book of the Month. See and respond to the Teacher's comments. |
Vocabulary:
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Help and Enrichment
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More sentence work --
Independent Practice
Jordan wants a puppy for Christmas.
Nobody’s chili is as good as my Mom’s.
Game:
I saw a baby bear in the trail ahead.
The ice cream was gone, and Becky thought her little sister was to blame.
Cinnamon rolls smell delicious.
The smell of pizza makes my mouth water.
The teacher didn’t realize how hard it would be to write a list of random sentences.
