Planning a Scene

Use this link to get your idea: Humans of New York - Stories

Student Sample 

H/W - (C/D and E/F) - You must finish you PLAN for your story by FRIDAY! Friday's class you will begin writing your  final summative.

Reminder: Do not forget to have your  intertextuality - 'source' for your book club summative for Thursday!

G/H  -What's the message in the story I gave you? Can you think of something that nobody else does?

Intertextuality Practice

Use this link for today's class: Intertextuality Practice

H/W - Bring one link  that relates in someway to a big idea in your book club text. This can be a song, poem, video clip, magazine article, poster. In Thursday's class, you will work as a book club on your second summative assessment using these links. Do not let your team down by forgetting to bring something in!  - DUE THUR

G/H - You do not have to do this H/W! - You must read the story you were given in class and think about a link that goes with the story. This can be a song, poem, video clip, magazine article, poster. 

DUE THUR

Writing with Meaning

How will you bring meaning into your RF writing?

GREAT WRITING RESOURCE: WRITERS HELPING WRITERS

Emotion Thesaurus

Symbolism Thesaurus 

Turn in your RF scene here

 


No H/W tonight - just read! -

Inspire...

For those people still waiting to present their book talk - What tips can you learn from this piece?

Who will you inspire this week to be great?

MAP TEST

Next Tue, Wed, Thur are MAP tests. You DO NOT have to study for these tests; however, you can learn the vocabulary that OFTEN appears in the questions. Just target words that you do not know and work on them!

Infinitive - Gerund -Subordinate Clause -Normative Pronoun - Appositive - Archetype - Connotation - Rhetoric - Imperative - Participle
  almost ALAWYS appear on tests!

For those super keen students....

Guaranteed Skills Tested

Reading

Main Idea of a piece of text

Author’s purpose

Sequencing

Cause/Effect

POV (Voice)*

Ballards

Language

Capitalization Rules

Irregular plurals

Possessive Plurals

Active and passive voice

Tenses

Present and past participle

Gerunds

Infinitives

Phrases and Clauses

Advanced pronouns