Announcements and Reminders:
Last time your book of the month was due.
Book-of-the-Month
You were expected to write about a theme in your book (using the PEE format).
You were then to create a typed draft on MyAccess, then
hand in your handwritten draft and your goldenrod worksheet after you submitted on MyAccess. Not getting it? See "Help and Enrichment" at this link: 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.)
Today we will look again at themes.
Next time you will have about 15-20 minutes to finish your PEE writing on MyAccess. If you do not finish, you will need to finish outside of class.
 your/you're and their/there/they're The test will be on Thursday and Friday, November 8/9. Make sure you correctly spell the words
we've already tested on.
There will be no Cave Time on Friday. There will be an assembly for all seventh graders.
 If you were not here to do that assignment, see me for a tombstone and a word. |
Targets for Today:
I can recognize a theme in a novel, then write about that theme using evidence from the book and clear explanation. I can correctly spell commonly confused words. I can read a realistic fiction novel (The Outsiders) on my own, and answer questions about it. |
Today’s Agenda:
1. Theme Listen to a picture book story, and watch for a theme.  Mr. Peabody’s Apples by Madonna
After catching Mr. Peabody take an apple without paying, a boy tells everyone he knows that Mr. Peabody is a thief. The boy learns a valuable lesson when he learns the truth that Mr. Peabody paid ahead of the apples each week. Mr. Peabody uses a feather pillow as a clever means for teaching the young boy a lesson.
Possible Themes:
Don’t spread rumors.
Get the facts before assuming.
Rumors spread like wildfire and are hard to extinguish once they start.
Rumors can hurt the people they are about.
Words once spoken are harder to take back than feathers thrown on windy day.
Step 2: Songs
I Hope You Dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV-Z1YwaOiw From Now On https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfGlq9Bz5-Y
Step 3: Themes in Fables -- We didn't do this one yet.
Some notes about Evidence and Explanation:
Do not put quotes around a section of text unless it is exactly what was written in the book. If you are paraphrasing, still put the parenthetical citation at the end of the sentence and right before the period (2).
     3. Reading The Outsiders -- Read individually, answering the questions on the Reading Road Map. |
If You Were Absent:
See above.
You could work on your MyAcess writing from home. Here is the presentation we used today on Theme: Theme -- Basic Essentials.pdf |
Vocabulary:
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Help and Enrichment
Not getting theme, and Point-Evidence-Explanation writing? See "Help and Enrichment" at this link: Some notes about Evidence and Explanation:
Do not put quotes around a section of text unless it is exactly what was written in the book. If you are paraphrasing, still put the parenthetical citation at the end of the sentence and right before the period (2).
 NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY By Robert Frost Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.[hue = color] Her early leaf’s a flower; [Think of early spring when the leaves on the trees look like flower buds.] But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. [subsides = becomes less or stops] So Eden sank to grief, [Eden in the Bible was a paradise. --This is an Allusion.] So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. [This poem addresses a major theme of the novel The Outsiders. Watch for other references (allusions) to the poem as we read the book.] Extra Credit Poem Memorization |
