Good Morning!
Today we will continue to read a chapter of “If I Should Die Before I Wake”.
Good Copies of your paragraphs are due today….
New Short Story: “Long Long After School”. We will be reading this aloud in class.
Monthly Archives: February 2017
Wednesday February 8th, 2017
Good Morning,
Yesterday, we wrote our quiz on “short story terms”. There are a few more people who still need to write this.
-We will continue to read our novel “If I Should Die Before I Wake” aloud in class. We are now on Chapter 6.
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“You have to understand that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land” –Warsan Shire “Home”
We will get back into our paragraphs on “Identities”.
*A few things you should add to your paragraphs…..
please go through your rough drafts and enter in any transitional expressions that may help improve the flow of your writing. You should also add in at least one quote from the story “Identities” to support your argument.
Above is a copy of the short story “Identities” in case you need it again to get a quote. (You should download a copy for yourself so that you have a copy to study from when we get to our short story test….
Tuesday February 7th, 2017
Good Morning,
-Reminder…we have a quiz today!
-We will continue to read our novel. We are now on chapter 5.
-drafts of our paragraph on “Identities”.
Monday February 6th, 2017
Good Morning,
*Reminder….we will have our short story terms quiz on Tuesday February 7th. Please make sure you review these terms!
Prose Fiction Terms Communications
-We will continue to read our Read Along book “If I Should Die Before I Wake”. We are now on chapter 4.
-We will play a “Kahoot” on short story terms to help us know the terms for tomorrow’s quiz.
-“Identities”: We will continue to work on our paragraph template. You should finish up your template and be starting to work on your rough draft.
Friday February 3rd, 2017
Happy Friday!
*Reminder: We will have a short story terms quiz on Tuesday February 7th. Please make sure you review the terms over the weekend.
Prose Fiction Terms Communications
We will continue with our ‘Read Along” “If I Should Die Before I Wake”. We are now on chapter 3.
-We will continue with our paragraph writing template on the short story “Identities”. The question you are responding to is “Was the officer justified when he killed the man?”
*Your decision on the ‘Yes/No’ chart is essentially your topic sentence.
*Your arguments in the Yes and No boxes would be your supporting details.
-Once you write the templatc
-Connecting ourselves to the world around us
After watching a movie or listening to a TEDtalk or reading a piece of literature
Building Understanding for after reading literature or watching a video
Thursday February 2nd, 2017
Good Morning,
*Reminder…we have a ‘short story terms quiz’ on Tuesday February 7th. Please make sure you review each evening.
-We will continue to read our “read-along” novel “If I Should Die Before I Wake”.
-We will are going to take a look at our “Yes/No Charts for the short story “Identities”. You were to come up to different arguments for the question “Was the office justified when he killed the man?”.
*We will brainstorm and add more arguments to our chart then what we may have had on our own.
-We are going to look at paragraph writing…and responding to the question “Was the officer justified when he killed the man?”
Wednesday February 1st, 2017
Happy Wednesday!
*Reminder: You will be having a short story terms quiz next Tuesday February 7th, 2017.
-Today we are going to be starting our “read along”. We will be starting the novel “If I Should Die Before I Wake”.
-We are starting our short story. We will be reading the short story “Identities”.
*Pre-reading: Based on the title and anything you may scan as you look at the story, make predictions for what you think the story will be about.
-We will complete a “Yes/No Chart”.
-Four Corners
-Paragraph writing: