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Writing
Lesson: Showing, Not Just
Telling
1. Difference between “literal” and “figurative
language” (purple p. 2)
A) Definitions
2. Least Vivid to Most Vivid (purple p. 2
)--Place the sentences in order form least vivid description to most vivid
description.
A) Our barelegged mammas dance down the steps
and join us in the rain.
B) Our barelegged mammas come down the steps
and join us in the rain.
C) Our barelegged mammas dance down the steps
and join us in the fresh, clean rain.
D) Our barelegged mammas come down the steps
and join us in the fresh, clean rain.
3. Diction Sandra Cisneros (p. 2)
4. Vocabulary Variety—pink sheet reminder
Please put your name at the top of page
2, and lay it by my candle.
Poetry Revision: Autobiographical Poem
1.
Go get your FIRST DRAFT
off the circle table. Write FIRST DRAFT
in big letters across the top.
2.
We are revising today
to a second, almost-final draft.
3.
I’m going to go over
the requirements for today’s revision time now.
4.
When I hand out the
revision directions and models, you should this page as a checklist for your revising
today.
5.
You’ll make AT LEAST
ten changes, and probably many more:
a.
Add words, details and
lines
b.
Subtract words or lines
that aren’t strengthening the poem
c.
Switch words and lines
around
d.
Take one word out and
substitute another, stronger word.
6.
Print your revised
copy, and when it gets back from the library, write “SECOND DRAFT” on the top
of it, and staple it on top of the first.
7.
Turn it in at my candle.
When You Finish
Revising
Vocabulary-Building
1.
In place of free rice,
you’re going to quizlet.
2.
Join my class here: http://quizlet.com/27244389/poetry-terms-abbreviated-flash-cards/
CPR
Welcome to CPR!
Tuesday, December 17th,
2013
When You Come In
1. Turn in your quiz by my
candle.
2. Regarding your
annotations over all assigned pages: I
will take up your ENTIRE novella on Friday to assess your annotations. This will be a major homework grade.
Before Lunch = Mango Street Close Reading and
Discussion
After Lunch = Vocab and Organization and Plan
for Tomorrow
Close Reading
Re-read
“Sally”, starting on page 81.
1. What does the text say?
2. What do you infer?
3. Write an “I”, then write your inference next to what the text
says.
MODEL
TEXT
STATEMENT MY INFERENCE
· “He remembers his sisters and is
sad.”
Ø I would guess that his sister shamed the family in some
way—perhaps by dancing.
· “Her father says to be this beautiful is trouble.”
Ø Because she’s beautiful, she might cause problems with guys later
on.
“Who
taught you to paint your eyes like Cleopatra?”
“…but
I want to buy shoes just like yours, like your black ones made out of suede,
just like those”
“You
look at your feet and walk fast to the house you can’t come out from.”
“There
is no one to lend you her hairbrush.”
“He
remembers his sisters and is sad.”
Started
@ 11:25
“What Sally Said” (pages 92-3)
“The Monkey Garden” (pages 94-98)
Highlight (Yes, highlight!) any concrete detail you can
visualize as I read this chapter aloud.
Homework for Tomorrow
1.
Read and annotate “Red
Clowns”.
2.
Get out page 15, and
REREAD “Red Clowns.”
3.
Fill in page 15 on your
SECOND time through the chapter.
4.
Read and annotate the rest
of the novel. (Finish reading and annotating
the novel.)
5.
Complete page 7.
Reading
Reminder—Annotation
Ø Please annotate the
following items as you read, in addition to your own brainy comments.
a. Mark metaphors and similes with a symbol.
b. Ask questions
c. Comment.
d. Make inferences.
e. Motifs (an idea or object that appears
repeatedly)
Vocabulary
Note—Fiction Terms
· There are new terms
on quizlet—fiction terms.
· Here’s a handout, if
you’d rather have the words on paper.
· Final vocab quiz = after
break, but I want you studying them this week, so you can use the vocabulary as
we talk about Mango Street!
Organization
· Make a plan for
tomorrow with me now; I will put it on the board.
· Papers back, and
folder organization.
· Go over quiz #1.
1:05--Vocab Time Online
· Vocab Work This Week
Instead of Free Rice
· plus handout; let’s
look at the ones you already know!
Motifs We See So Far (two-thirds through book)
1.
Danger/threat from older men
2. Death
3. Shyness
4. Shame
5. Names
6. Growing up
7. New experiences
8. Friendship
9. Poverty
10. Sisters
11. Family
12. Esperanza’s name
13. Family differences
14. Neighborhood
15. House
16. Lack of confidence
17. Nicknames
18. neighbors
AP
Welcome, APILLIONAIRES!
Tuesday, December 17th,
2013
When You Come In
Ø Pick up the THREE handouts on the sign-in table:
cream, coral, and yellowish.
Thanks!
Ø Sit over on this side of the room, by my desk. Thanks!
General
Announcements
1.
Bless your heart, Mary Kate! You formatted the Greek Myth info! J
2.
And, Jio, bless your heart for making a
Myth Wordles folder as well! J
3.
I will not be here tomorrow, so I am
flipping today’s plans with tomorrows—you will view the wordles tomorrow at the
beginning of class.
4.
Here’s a viewing sheet! Keep it until tomorrow, and use it as you
listen and view the presentations.
5.
You MUST be ready to SHOW your wordle
tomorrow on the big screen. I’m only
allowing thirty-five minutes for this, which means everyone gets about three
minutes to present. Stay on track, and
keep things moving! J
New and Last Unit: Frankenstein!
1. Big Picture (page 1)
2.
Writing Style: The 128-Word Sentence (pages 2-3)
3.
How would we do this? Here is how our class sentence turned out:
I serenely snuggled next to the slowly
diminishing embers, warmly wrapped up like a burrito with extra cheese in my
lavender fleece Snuggie, but my rambunctious brown rat Rufus—who’d been missing
half his tail due to a dog-bite incident—distracted me from the novel—the edged
worn, ragged and coffee-stained from my early morning French vanilla
cappuccino, purchased from the gas station down the street--I had recently been
assigned by a teacher whose cruelty knew no bounds; the suicidal-look man on
the cover—his black trench coat billowing behind him, his fierce walking stick
gripped tightly in his hand, as he looked out over the crashing gray sea, to
the faraway lighthouse—flashing with the last glimmers of hope in an effort to
save him from himself.
4.
Reading Assignment
a.
Meet Mary Shelley (page 5)
b.
Introducing the Novel (pages 6-7)
c.
Background ( p. 10)
i. Read and annotate.
ii. Write questions.
iii. Mark potentially
important points.
iv. Started 2:30
7.
Frame Story (p. 4)—get three tabs and mark the three parts of
the novel now. Thank you!
a.
Page 1 (Walton)
b.
Page 14 (Victor Frankenstein)
c.
Page 70 (The Creature)
8.
Class discussion over reading assignments (pages 9-11)
a.
One annotation per person
b.
I will check this for a daily grade Thursday or Friday
Let’s Start Reading
1. Vocabulary assignment (pink)
2. Listen as I read the first few pages.
3. Flag any vocab words you see.
4. Stop me anytime with questions.
5. We read pages one through four.
Homework
Ø Read and annotate pages 5-14 (Walton’s frame).
Ø Your wordle should already be in the class folder, ready to be
viewed first thing tomorrow.
Ø For Friday: two 128-word
sentences
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