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| Happy birthday, Albert Einstein! March 14 |
Announcements
and Reminders:
Friday is the last day of the term.
All extra credit, make-up work, and revisions were due by last Friday. The only exception is that you may turn in revisions for your informational essay through this Wednesday, and not after.
For the handouts, examples, etc., see the tab above for Writing/Grammar 2015-2015.
Find a nonfiction book to read during individual reading time and to use for some class activities. Have your book chosen and checked off by March 21. We will go to the media center next time. Be prepared to find a book.
Your nonfiction book could be a biography or autobiography, or literary nonfiction (told like a story) about a single subject.  We will be taking the SAGE Writing Test next week. Come prepared to think clearly and write to the BEST of your ability. |
Targets for
Today:
Targets:
“I can determine the meaning of visual representations on a map.”
“I can read for gist as we begin Chapter 1 in A Long Walk to Water.”
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Today’s Agenda:
1. Write in your composition book under "Notes and Quick Writes" -- About War Title your entry "War and Water" and include today's date. Respond briefly to each of these scenarios.
SCENARIO 1
You are 11 years old. You have been separated from your family by a war. In order to survive, you must walk to an area of safety hundreds of miles away. On the journey you must avoid soldiers and dangerous wildlife, and manage to find food and water. The journey will take months. You do not know if you will survive or ever see your family again.
If this was an experience you had to live through, how do you think
it would affect the person you grew up to be?
SCENARIO 2
You are 11 years old. You live with your family in an area far from towns or cities. Your family does not have any running water or electricity. You are responsible for getting water for your family to drink. To do this, you must walk eight hours every day to a pond and back. You will have to do this every day for years and years.
If this was an experience you had to live through, how do you think
it would affect the person you grew up to be?
B5-B6
Lesson on Plagiarism by Mrs. Mace
Don't say the same thing.
Targets:
“I can determine the meaning of visual representations on a map.”
2. Use the handout and the map at the beginning of the book to show you can determine the meaning of visual representations.
Do you know what to do when you are asked to "determine"?
present: to show or symbolize
re- :
-tion: the act of doing something
3. To What genre does this book belong?This book is multicultural/historical fiction.
You will be reading
Nonfiction Books.
Find your nonfiction book and sign up for it by March 21.
What is the difference between historical fiction and nonfiction?
4. “I can read for gist as we begin Chapter 1 in A Long Walk to Water.”
Gist: “Gist” is simply one’s initial sense of what a text is mostly about: it is a low stakes first “toe hold” into making sense of a text, preceding and less formal than identifying main idea.
To here: B5 to Car backfiring
Read Chapter 1 for gist.
Next time: B5 and B7 need to hear the radio program:
Add to your Background: http://kuer.org/post/both-sides-are-fault-susan-rice-south-sudans-civil-war
5. (if time) Reread for Close Reading -- I Notice. . . . . I Wonder. . . .
Close Reading
6. Finish your magical study guides and have them checked off with Ms. Dorsey.
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If You Were
Absent:
See above.
Make sure you finish your informational essay and email Ms. Dorsey if you have. For the handouts, examples, etc., see the tab above for Writing/Grammar 2015-2015. Have your magical study guide checked off. It must be magical. Use it to study those words so you know them for a text next term. Be here next week for our SAGE testing. |
