Language of Literature: Daily Agenda

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.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Daily Agenda

Entry Task
    Write a simple paragraph that explains your dream trip. Your trip must to somewhere in the U.S.A.
    Be sure to use the following outline: MP->SD->SD->SD
Figurative Language
Ellis Island
    US Immigration Video(20mins)
Immigrant Kids pg. 56
    -3R's#1-6
    -Essay Question

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: EXTRA CREDIT

The book I am reading is called THE SUMMER OF THE MONKEYS and it is about a boy named Jay Berry and his family. When Jay berry was a baby his parents got a call from his gandpa saying that he bought 60 acres of farm land down in the Cherokee mountains and if they wanted it they could pay him however they wanted to. So they decided to move there. When Jay Berry was 14 years old he wanted a .22 and a pony but he didn't have any money. On their farm they had a cow named Sally Gooden.Sally Gooden was a no good for nothinmilk cow that always escaped domn into the marshes so Jay Rerry and his his hound dog Rowdy would go down and get her. But one day they heard a sound they never heard before so they went and asked his grandpa and he said there was a curcis train that wrecked a few miles down and the cart full of monkeys broke open and all the monkeys escaped. He also said that whoever captured the monkeys got a reward.$2.00 for each monkey but 1.That 1 monkey was worth $100.00.So they caught all of the monkeys and Jay Berry went and bought a .22 and a pony.

THE END; October 12, 2007 at 7:01 PM