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October 3. Warm-up : MLA format reminders for essay. Type Narrative Essay final draft in lab 101 - Your goal is to finish typing the essay today - Not finished? Plan to come by before/after school OR complete on Thursday during AR. October 4. Revising and Editing CBA (quiz grade) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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October 3
Type Narrative Essay final draft in lab 101 - Your goal is to finish typing the essay today - Not finished? Plan to come by before/after school OR complete on Thursday during AR
Warm-up: MLA format reminders for essay
October 4Revising and Editing CBA (quiz grade)
Homeless by Anna Quindlan -vocabulary-non-fiction essay, literature book pgs. 368-372- discuss author’s purpose & characteristics of a problem-solution essay- create 2-column chart, see pg. 368
: write author’s direct statements about topic : Think about what these elements tell you
about her purpose for writing
“Homeless” by Anna Quindlen p. 369Vocabulary
anonymous- adj. – having no known name or origin; lacking qualities that make one different
legacy – n. – anything handed down from an ancestor or from the past
enfeebled – adj. – lacking force, strength or effectiveness; weakened
October 5Warm-up: MUG Sentence 6-8 (Week 6)
Homeless by Anna Quindlan, literature book pgs. 368-372- create author’s purpose 2-column chart: write author’s direct statements about topic : Think about what these elements tell you about her purpose for writing
What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything? by Avi - Review terms: theme and symbol- Read short story, literature book pgs. 350-364- in groups of 3-4: find text evidence relating to a symbol from story: create graphic representation of symbol, surround with text evidence-Write theme statement for story
Homework: Vocabulary Practice
What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything? by AVI
VocabularyVocabularycontemplate contemplate v. v. to consider carefully and at lengthto consider carefully and at lengthinevitablyinevitably adv. adv. unavoidably; without failunavoidably; without failpreoccupiedpreoccupied adj.adj. lost in thought; distractedlost in thought; distractedretortretort v. v. to reply sharplyto reply sharplythresholdthreshold n.n. a doorway or entrancea doorway or entranceurgency urgency n.n. a condition of pressing importance; a condition of pressing importance;
necessitynecessity
October 6Warm-up: MUG Sentence 9 (Week 6), check homework (vocabulary practice)
Read AR: Due 11/2 Read, test, go to library- Finish typing Narrative Essay?
October 7
Warm-up: MUG Sentence 10 (Week 6)
Dirk the Protector by Gary Paulson- service project- vocabulary- memoir, literature book pgs. 276-284- create cause-effect chart using at least 5 text examples
Homework: Vocabulary Practice & Idiom Review
Dirk the Protector Dirk the Protector by Gary Paulsen VocabularyVocabulary
cohortcohort n. n. a companion or associatea companion or associateconventionalconventional adj.adj. usual; traditional usual; traditionaldecoydecoy n.n. person or thing used to distract others or lead person or thing used to distract others or lead
them in a different directionthem in a different directionforerunner forerunner n. n. person or thing that came beforeperson or thing that came beforehustlehustle v.v. to gain by energetic effort to gain by energetic effortimpasseimpasse n.n. a situation in which no progress can be a situation in which no progress can be
made; a deadlockmade; a deadlockpredatorypredatory adj.adj. given to stealing from or hurting others given to stealing from or hurting others
for one’s own gainfor one’s own gainpuny puny adj.adj. weak and small weak and small
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