Write the essay!

1--Update assignment list and review grades.

2--Write essay comparing skittles and kisses, have a classmate read it and complete the checklist.

3--Read your book.

Homework: Bring your reading book and school ID for library trip.

Skittles and Kisses

Fill out a compare and contrast prewriting chart for skittles and kisses.



Homework: Bring your reading book to class every day

O Captain! My Captain!

Read the Walt Whitman poem "O Captain! My Captain!" and fill out a metaphor-meaning chart.

Read the excerpt from Lincoln: A Photobiography.

Grades: P2, P3, P5, P6


Homework: Pick your second book and read

adjective and noun forming suffixes

Noun forming suffixes:

-hood: condition /for example: childhood
-ness: quality /for example: goodness
-ance, -ence: state, fact, act/for example: independence
-ation, -ition,-tion: action or state/for example: celebration
-ity, -ty: quality/for example: ability
-ment: result or action/for example: employment

Number your paper from 1-10. Form nouns using the above suffixes ; then define the new words. Spelling changes will be necessary.

replace
likely
articulate
accept
intense
man
fragile
aspire
improvise
friendly

adjective forming suffixes:


-ish: like or suggesting /for example: foolish
-able, -ible: able /for example: tolerable
-ous: having the quality of /for example: religious
-esque: like /for example: statuesque
-some: like or tending to /for example: tiresome

Number your paper from 1-10. Form adjectives using the suffixes from the previous slide; then define the new words. Spelling changes will be necessary.

lone
picture
harmony
devil
grace
baby
luxury
depend
meddle
riot

Finish Charly and Characters' Motivations Chart

Finish Charly

Turn in Characters' Motivation Chart (20 pts.)

Hand out book pick form II

Update assignment list:

30. Characters' Motivation Chart 20 pts. 10/25
31. Book Pick Form II (front) 10 pts. 10/26

Homework: Book Pick Form II and Book

Continue viewing Charly

Continue viewing Charly and fill out a chart forcharacters' motivations and reactions for two different characters.

Homework: Pick another book to read

Finish assessment

Grades:

P2

P3

P5

P6

Back to School Night and the Grades are Posted

Tonight is Back to School Night. Current grades are posted below. I will post them every weekend in the future.

Period 2

Period 3

Period 5

Period 6

District assessment

Take district assessment

Homework: Extra credit for attendance at Back to School Night
Book reports due by Friday

Continue Flowers for Algernon

Update assignment list

Update computer

Continue Flowers for Algernon



Homework: Book Reports due Friday (Back of the Book Pick Form)

Flowers for Algernon and subordinating conjucntions for you

Write a response to the following prompt.

People are different. Think about all the ways people are different from one another. How should you and how do you treat people who are different from you?

Do exercise 4 on page 445 about subordinating conjunctions.

Read Flowers for Algernon on page 220.




Homework:

Author's Background Final Exam

Write a five paragraph essay in which you discuss the importance of an author's background to his or her writing. Use the stories that we have read to support your thesis. Use the checklist to make sure that you include all required elements.

Here is a sample thesis.

Author's background is important in the writing of Laurence Yep, Jewell Parker Rhodes, and William Saroyan.

Finish final drafts, backgroud charts, and read!

Homework:

Finally Final Drafts!

Work in teacher's comments and corrections into a final draft of the Akeelah and the Bee and "Root of Freedom" essay. Most common comments were as follows.

1. Movies such as Akeelah and the Bee should be italicized when typed and underlined when written.

2. Short excerpts from autobiographies with a different title than the autobiography such as "The Root of Freedom" should be enclosed in quotes. The title of the autobiography such as The Narrative of the Life of a Slave should be italicized when typed and underlined when written.

3. The theme paragraph must include the theme from both works--hopefully you found a recurring theme. Specific details from the movie and narrative must be included to support the theme.





Homework:

Finish Authors' Backgrounds Chart

Complete word chart for the following words: descendant, vagrant, and lumbering.

Complete charts for the influence of authors' backrounds on their writing.


Complete a chart for each of the following stories:

"The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse" page 841

"Block Party" page 831

"The Great Rat Hunt" page 106

In Writing and Skills we'll start looking at sentence structure. An important skill in writing is using complete sentences. You will learn this by studying the definition, by looking at the kinds of sentences, and by examining their structures.

Read pages 470-473 and do exercise 1.

Homework: Complete charts for the influence of authors' backrounds on their writing.

Magnificence in Education

Complete word chart for the following words: magnificence, longing, and pious.

Complete charts for the influence of authors' backrounds on their writing.

Complete a chart for each of the following stories:

"The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse"

"Block Party"

"The Great Rat Hunt"

In Writing and Skills we'll start looking at sentence structure. An important skill in writing is using complete sentences. You will learn this by studying the definition, by looking at the kinds of sentences, and by examining their structures.

Read pages 470-473 and do exercise 1.

Homework:

Continuing Cultural Heritage

Today we continue to look at cultural heritage, author's background, and tradition in Literature.

Poem of the day: "Song of the Banana Man"

Read "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse" on page 841 and "Block Party" and consider how the authors' background might have influenced their writing.




Homework:

The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse

Poem of the Day: "Running a Race"

Hand out Book Pick Form


Finish "The Great Rat Hunt" and quiz

Start "Summer of the Beautiful White Horse"



Homework:Fill out Book Pick Form

The Great Rat Hunt

Poem of the Day: "Look at Me"

Put portfolios in order and staple assignments 1-16 together.

Read "The Great Rat Hunt" on page 106 of Language of Literature.

Take the Quiz.

1. What is Laurence's cultural heritage?

2. What are indications of Yep's his cultural background in the story?

3. Describe one situation or incident that you found funny. Why is it humorous? Explain.

4. Describe the plot.

5. What is the setting?

6. What is the theme? Explain your answer.

7. Do the vocabulary exercise on page 116.


Discuss how humor and cultural heritage impacts writing.

Period 3 will take Make-up Vocabulary Test.


Homework: Find 3 facts about Laurence Yep and write them down in complete sentences.
Pick a book to read. Fill out book form.



Homework:

Procedure review

Today we will review the procedure for entering and checking grades. First person in the Manilla and Orange group will start. One the P.E. side of the room students will take turns: orange first, yellow second, and blue third. One the Bonita side of the room students will take turns: Manilla first, red second, and green third. Each student will take his or her folder to the computer and check his or her grade. We must do this everyday. Make sure your grades are entered properly every day.

Third period will do a sentence completion practice worksheet and play vocabulary bingo to prepare for retaking the Vocabulary Mastery Test. Students will be given astudy sheet from which to study at home.

Periods 2, 5, and 6 will write a compare/contrast essay in which Akkeelah and the Bee and "The Root of Freedom" are compared and contrasted.