Thursday, October 3, 2013
Monday, October 7, 2013
If you handed in a hard copy of your first book project, please pick it up from the lower wire basket for your class.
If you haven't turned in the first book project, please do as soon as possible!
See Sample Character Cube
1. Individual Reading Time
See me if you haven't handed in your first book project.
Label: "Motivation" List those reasons.
Do NOT copy this one:
Reasons to Use a Comma that are shown by this sentence:
1.
2.
3.
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3. Getting Started with Spelling
Quiz on essential spelling words
Receive your first set of essential spelling words.
You will learn those words, then will lose points if you misspell them in your writing.
4. The Outsiders
B5 page 126. iTunes p. 110 Nightmare. . ., 29:03
B6 to bottom of page 138, iTunes, Chapter 9, cut
12:44
B7 to page 131, iTunes Chapter 9, cut, 0:00
B8 to page 143, Chapter 9, cut , 21:36
"It ain't long enough. Sixteen years ain't long enough." p. 121
If you haven't turned in the first book project, please do as soon as possible!
See Sample Character Cube
Character Cube Example: Ponyboy
1. Individual Reading Time
- Collect evidence from your book.
- Work on your book character cube evidence and rough draft.
- It is due next time!
- What's due?
- Pencil in your ideas on the blue template draft.c Complete a notes page with three passages from the book about your character.c Get your draft and notes page checked off by a teacher by October 9.
See me if you haven't handed in your first book project.
2.
CSI American Fork
Now Investigating: Conventions in Sentences Investigation
Your task: Copy the sentence below the example, then examine it for two or three reasons to use commas. 
CSI American Fork
Now Investigating: Conventions in Sentences Investigation
Label: "Motivation" List those reasons.
Do NOT copy this one:
Example: If your sentence were this one -- "I would have laughed, but I had a terrific headache." (p. 114) -- You could say that you should use a comma between two independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction. (compound sentence)
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Reasons to Use a Comma that are shown by this sentence:
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Answers to Reasons to Use a Comma October 7
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3. Getting Started with Spelling
Quiz on essential spelling words
Receive your first set of essential spelling words.
You will learn those words, then will lose points if you misspell them in your writing.
Essential, Non-Negotiable Spelling – Set 1
4. The Outsiders
B5 page 126. iTunes p. 110 Nightmare. . ., 29:03
B6 to bottom of page 138, iTunes, Chapter 9, cut
12:44
B7 to page 131, iTunes Chapter 9, cut, 0:00
B8 to page 143, Chapter 9, cut , 21:36
"It ain't long enough. Sixteen years ain't long enough." p. 121
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Television Literature?
Television
The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set --
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
We've watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone's place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)
They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they're hypnotised by it,
Until they're absolutely drunk
With all that shocking ghastly junk.
Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,
They don't climb out the window sill,
They never fight or kick or punch,
They leave you free to cook the lunch
And wash the dishes in the sink --
But did you ever stop to think,
To wonder just exactly what
This does to your beloved tot?
IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK -- HE ONLY SEES!
'All right!' you'll cry. 'All right!' you'll say,
'But if we take the set away,
What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children? Please explain!'
We'll answer this by asking you,
'What used the darling ones to do?
'How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?'
Have you forgotten? Don't you know?
We'll say it very loud and slow:
THEY ... USED ... TO ... READ! They'd READ and READ,
AND READ and READ, and then proceed
To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!
One half their lives was reading books!
The nursery shelves held books galore!
Books cluttered up the nursery floor!
And in the bedroom, by the bed,
More books were waiting to be read!
Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales
Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales
And treasure isles, and distant shores
Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars,
And pirates wearing purple pants,
And sailing ships and elephants,
And cannibals crouching 'round the pot,
Stirring away at something hot.
(It smells so good, what can it be?
Good gracious, it's Penelope.)
The younger ones had Beatrix Potter
With Mr. Tod, the dirty rotter,
And Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland,
And Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and-
Just How The Camel Got His Hump,
And How the Monkey Lost His Rump,
And Mr. Toad, and bless my soul,
There's Mr. Rat and Mr. Mole-
Oh, books, what books they used to know,
Those children living long ago!
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books,
Ignoring all the dirty looks,
The screams and yells, the bites and kicks,
And children hitting you with sticks-
Fear not, because we promise you
That, in about a week or two
Of having nothing else to do,
They'll now begin to feel the need
Of having something to read.
And once they start -- oh boy, oh boy!
You watch the slowly growing joy
That fills their hearts. They'll grow so keen
They'll wonder what they'd ever seen
In that ridiculous machine,
That nauseating, foul, unclean,
Repulsive television screen!
And later, each and every kid
Will love you more for what you did.
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set --
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
We've watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone's place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)
They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they're hypnotised by it,
Until they're absolutely drunk
With all that shocking ghastly junk.
Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,
They don't climb out the window sill,
They never fight or kick or punch,
They leave you free to cook the lunch
And wash the dishes in the sink --
But did you ever stop to think,
To wonder just exactly what
This does to your beloved tot?
IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK -- HE ONLY SEES!
'All right!' you'll cry. 'All right!' you'll say,
'But if we take the set away,
What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children? Please explain!'
We'll answer this by asking you,
'What used the darling ones to do?
'How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?'
Have you forgotten? Don't you know?
We'll say it very loud and slow:
THEY ... USED ... TO ... READ! They'd READ and READ,
AND READ and READ, and then proceed
To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!
One half their lives was reading books!
The nursery shelves held books galore!
Books cluttered up the nursery floor!
And in the bedroom, by the bed,
More books were waiting to be read!
Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales
Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales
And treasure isles, and distant shores
Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars,
And pirates wearing purple pants,
And sailing ships and elephants,
And cannibals crouching 'round the pot,
Stirring away at something hot.
(It smells so good, what can it be?
Good gracious, it's Penelope.)
The younger ones had Beatrix Potter
With Mr. Tod, the dirty rotter,
And Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland,
And Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and-
Just How The Camel Got His Hump,
And How the Monkey Lost His Rump,
And Mr. Toad, and bless my soul,
There's Mr. Rat and Mr. Mole-
Oh, books, what books they used to know,
Those children living long ago!
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books,
Ignoring all the dirty looks,
The screams and yells, the bites and kicks,
And children hitting you with sticks-
Fear not, because we promise you
That, in about a week or two
Of having nothing else to do,
They'll now begin to feel the need
Of having something to read.
And once they start -- oh boy, oh boy!
You watch the slowly growing joy
That fills their hearts. They'll grow so keen
They'll wonder what they'd ever seen
In that ridiculous machine,
That nauseating, foul, unclean,
Repulsive television screen!
And later, each and every kid
Will love you more for what you did.
Roald Dahl
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/television/
Main Idea: Adults
should not let children watch television.
Theme: You may
later be thankful for something you at first thought was unfair or unkind.
When we do what’s right for children, they will later thank
us even if they complain at the time.
Television
Television
is the curse of the nation
Feeding ignorance
from station to station.
Yes.
The Television
Is the curse of the nation
What you're going to watch
is beyond explanation.
Information?
Useless
you bet.
Over thirty channels
and you have not picked one yet.
From
The Television
That stands there
in the corner
Hypnotic regression
of the nation is the order
of
The Television
What have you learned of
yet?
Generations of kids
that still don't know
their alphabet.
They watch
The Television
With murder on their minds
Images of death
portrayed
of every single kind.
On
The Television.
And then we act surprised
When a child commits a murder
before our very eyes.
In a society
That does not sanitise
The only wonder is
that we never realised.
That
The Television.
Feeds off our very brains
Sending out
To all about
Invisible radio waves.
Yes
from
The Television.
None of us are saved
It feeds us ignorance
Keeping everyone as slaves.
Television
is the curse of the nation
Feeding ignorance
from station to station.
Yes
The Television
is the curse of the nation
What you gonna watch
is beyond explanation.
is the curse of the nation
Feeding ignorance
from station to station.
Yes.
The Television
Is the curse of the nation
What you're going to watch
is beyond explanation.
Information?
Useless
you bet.
Over thirty channels
and you have not picked one yet.
From
The Television
That stands there
in the corner
Hypnotic regression
of the nation is the order
of
The Television
What have you learned of
yet?
Generations of kids
that still don't know
their alphabet.
They watch
The Television
With murder on their minds
Images of death
portrayed
of every single kind.
On
The Television.
And then we act surprised
When a child commits a murder
before our very eyes.
In a society
That does not sanitise
The only wonder is
that we never realised.
That
The Television.
Feeds off our very brains
Sending out
To all about
Invisible radio waves.
Yes
from
The Television.
None of us are saved
It feeds us ignorance
Keeping everyone as slaves.
Television
is the curse of the nation
Feeding ignorance
from station to station.
Yes
The Television
is the curse of the nation
What you gonna watch
is beyond explanation.
Wayne Leon Learmond
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/television-3/
The Things We Love
Death is alive,
When a television,
Is purchased.
When a television,
Is purchased.
Zach McAuliffe
Submitted: Sunday, October 26, 2008
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-things-we-love/
Haiku...(3)
Rain on television
my son made
a paper boat
my son made
a paper boat
Rizvana Parveen
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/haiku-3-38/
Thursday, October 3, 2013
- Pick up your composition book.
- If you handed in a hard copy of the book assignment, pick it up from the bottom wire basket for your class. Revise and resubmit as needed.
- Did you receive the new book assignment?
- Have you signed up for and been approved for your September/October book?
1. Individual Reading Time
-- a few more students to the media center?
Important! Your rough draft for your character
cube is due next Wednesday!
2.
CSI American Fork
Now Investigating: Conventions in Sentences Investigation
Your task:-- a few more students to the media center?
Important! Your rough draft for your character
cube is due next Wednesday!
2.
CSI American Fork
Now Investigating: Conventions in Sentences Investigation
a. Label the page with today's date and copy this information into your composition book:
Reason #___ to Use Commas:
A. Between City and State or City and Country
Salt Lake City, Utah
Paris, France
When both a city's name and that city's state or country's name are mentioned together, the state or country's name is set off on both sides by a comma.
Examples: (copy two or more)
Examples: (copy two or more)
- We visited Salt Lake City, Utah, last summer.
- Paris, France, is sometimes called "The City of Lights."
- She left the bank in Paris on July 1, 2008, for a job in Teller, Alaska.
- He knew he was washed up in Bath, Maine, when his show was scrubbed.
- Show me the St. Louis, Missouri, map.
B. Between Date and Year
Note that we use a comma or a set of commas to set off the year when the date of the month is included:
(Remember: If there’s a comma before the year, put a comma after the year.)
(Remember: If there’s a comma before the year, put a comma after the year.)
- Example: July 4, 1776, is regarded as the birth date of American liberty.
Without the date itself, however, the comma disappears:
- Example: July 1776 was one of the most eventful months in our history.
- Example:Her daughter April may return in June 2009 for the reunion.
In international or military format, no commas are used:
- Example:The Declaration of Independence was signed on 4 July 1776.
Thank you to http://terriblywrite.wordpress.com/terribly-right-writing-for-the-web/top-5-comma-errors/ and http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/commas.asp
Play this comma game:
Play this comma game:
Comma Swat
4. The Outsiders
B5 page 119. iTunes p. 110 Nightmare. . ., 15:15
B6 to page 128 iTunes, p. 110 Nightmare. . .
32:58
B7 to top of page 119, iTunes p. 110 Nightmare. . . , 15:16
B8 to page 129, p.110 Nightmare , 33:52
Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too. p. 118
"Thanks, grease," he said, trying to grin. Then he stopped. "I didn't mean that. I meant, thanks, kid." p. 117
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