Entry Task
Use a fact to introduce an essay about sports.
Reformed Reformation Video- Completion
Descript one scene from the video and compare it to the book.
Spelling Pretest
Spelling Worksheet
Use this online dictionary to help with your homeword
Building Block of Good Writing
Read pages 814-815
Reading Strategies
Question- While you read, question what's happening. Searching for reasons behind events and characters' actions can help you get more involved in what you read.
Connect- Connect personally with what you're reading. Think of similarities between the descriptions in the selection and what you have personally experienced, heard, or read.
Predict- Try to figure out what will happen next and how the selection might end. Then read on to see if you made good guesses.
Clarify- Stop occasionally to review what you understand so far, and expect to have your understanding change and develop as you read on.
Evaluate- Form opinions about what you read, both while you're reading and after you've finished. Make judgments about the characters and develop your own ideas about events.
Visualize- Make a picture in your mind of what the text says. Imagine you are looking at what is describe.
Literary Terms
Plot- the series of incidents or happenings in a story. The plot is the outline or arrangement of events.
Setting- the time and place of the action in a story; where and when the action takes place.
Mood- the feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates. For example, the mood of a story might be joyous or suspenseful.
Theme- the main idea of a story.
Style- the way in which a writer uses language. The choice and arrangement of words and sentences help to create the author’s style.
Purpose- the reason the author wrote the story. For example, an author’s purpose might be to amuse or entertain, to convince, or to inform.
Characterization- the ways a writer shows what a character is like. The way a character acts, speaks, thinks and looks characterizes that person.
2 comments:
ARE WE SUPPOSE TO DO THE SPELLING WORKSHEET FOR HOMEWORK.IF SO DO WE PRINT IT OFF ARE COMPUTER OR IS THERE A WAY TO DO IT ONLINE? I NEED TO KNOW SOON.
Mr. Joachim!!!! I dont know october the second's assingment because you didnt post it to the language of literature blog!
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