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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Class 11-20-2009

Wrinkle: You will be able to make inferences by finding clues and using your own experience.

Homework: #35 + Study for the Inferences Quiz on Monday!

DO NOW:

It’s 2:00 in the afternoon and it’s really dark outside. There are dark blue and gray clouds covering the sky. The wind has picked up and the temperature dropped ten degrees.

Answer these questions:

1. What’s about to happen?

2. What clues in the text made you believe this is going to happen?

3. What knowledge or experience do you have that helped you make this inference?

Classwork:

501 ---> Click here Afterwards, click here.

502 ---> Intro_to_Inferences.doc

503, 504--> Log on to Study Island Lesson: Reading-> 6. H. Making Infernences.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Class 11-18-2009

Wrinkle: You will be able to make inferences and successfully answer Study Island questions.

Homework: # 34

DO NOW: Get ready for your quiz.

Quiz for 502, 503, 504 : Quiz_Writing_Word_short.doc

Classwork: Intro_to_Inferences.doc

Monday, November 16, 2009

502, 503, 504 ~ 11/17/2009

Wrinkle: Identify different sentence components & change text formatting.

HW: Homework 33 (Microsoft Word quiz tomorrow)

Do Now: Answer these questions:

Do you know how to make text look different in a document? What kinds of things can you do?

Classwork: Classwork-formatting-and_writing_review.doc

Monday, November 16, 2009

501 ~ 11/17/2009

Wrinkle: Students will tell how setting can affect the characters and the story. Students will correctly answer Study Island Questions about Setting and Character.

HW: Homework #33 (Quiz tomorrow)

DO NOW:

If you were writing a story about a character who was moody, what kinds of things would you have them do, say, or think?

Classwork: List of character traits

“I really do not want to go to the Fall Fair,” Shelley insisted when her parents asked her a third time.
     “But you have always wanted to go in years past,” her mother said, sounding puzzled.
     Shelley just shook her head and went into her room before her parents could see her blue eyes fill with tears. She did not want to go to the fair, and she had a very good reason, though it was not one she wanted to share with her parents. Actually, it hurt too much to talk about.
     Yesterday at school, Shelley overheard two of her friends talking at the lunch table.
     “Are you going to the party at Trina’s after the Fall Fair?” Stephanie asked Jessie.
     “Sure. Are you?”
     Stephanie nodded her head, and the two of them began talking and whispering together. Shelley could not believe how rude the two of them were being, talking about the party as if Shelley were not even there.
     That was when Shelley decided not to go to the fair. Who would she hang out with? Ride the rides with? Share popcorn and cotton candy with? And then when all the other girls left to go to the party, how would she feel watching them leave without her? No way, she thought. She was not going to put herself through that.

Based on the passage, which of the following best describes Shelley?

	A.	She does not have very many friends.
	B.	She does not like going to the Fall Fair.
	C.	She does not like feeling left out.
	D.	She does not get along well with her parents.

Disappointment
      Lola sat on the old, lumpy couch crying. She could let it all out here, alone in her mother’s small, quiet apartment in Galesburg, Illinois. The familiar walls were covered in rose pink wallpaper. Goldie, her mother’s eleventh fish, seemed to stare sympathetically at Lola through the fishbowl sitting on the counter. The smell of her mother’s vanilla candles comforted her aching heart.
     Lola allowed herself to think out loud. “It is so unfair! I am the best person for the job. Instead, my classmates voted for Ricky to be class president. Ricky is such a clown—always making jokes. What can he offer the school? Now all my plans to improve the school seem worthless.”
     Lola decided to stay home and sulk, rather than attend the football game that night. She wasn’t ready to face Ricky. She was sure he would have plenty of jokes to make at her expense.

1.	How does the setting affect the characters or their actions?

	A.	Lola openly expresses how she feels about the class election.
	B.	The classmates realize they made a mistake by voting for Ricky.
	C.	Lola's mom is sorry that she is not able to comfort her daughter.
	D.	Ricky laughs and makes jokes about how he won the election.

2.	What is the setting of this story?

	A.	a high school football game
	B.	the town square in Galesburg
	C.	Lola's high school auditorium
	D.	Lola's mother's apartment

Sunday, November 15, 2009

502-503-504 11/16/2009

Wrinkle: You will edit sentence fragments using Microsoft Word.

Homework: Homework # 32

DO NOW: What is the difference between a sentence fragment and a complete sentence? What is a run-on sentence?

Read these sentences and figure out which sentences are COMPLETE sentences and which sentences are really sentence FRAGMENTS. Click here: http://classroom.jc-schools.net/la/activities/worksheets/fragments5.pdf

Classwork: Classwork_editing_fragments_and_runons.doc