November+30,+2011

Previous Next Homework due Today: //Copy the following Learning Objectives in the// // **Listening** section of your Notebook: 11/30/11 Daily Cornell Notes P# // media type="custom" key="10346416"
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media type="custom" key="10346382" LO: //Practice using sensory details// Task: **//Writing//** //section: 11/30/11 Week 1 Rewrite P# //

Explain: use your test from last week to practice using sensory details and adjectives. Discuss with your group: "Are we showing or just telling?" For example... Telling: I heard the loud car catch on fire when it crashed. Showing: "Boom!" the car exploded into burning hot flames after shrieking and smashing into a huge tree like a bug flying into a windshield. Translation:

Task: //Reread stories and update googlesite// LO: //identify literary devices// Explain: 1. go to [|google.com] and log in to your account. Use the link to find page numbers to help you locate literary devices. Use quotation marks to type the examples of the literary devices you found in the most recent stories. Remember to use parenthetical citations with page numbers. Translation:

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LO: //Practice Think-Pair-Share strategy// Task: **//Speaking//** //section: 11/30/11 Think-Pair-Share // //Orange//: "The Open Window" Summary p.56-61 // Blue: // "The Necklace" Summary p. 65-77 // Green : // "Skins" Summary p.72-89

Explain: The teacher will read and stop to ask a T-P-S comprehension question for each paragraph or section. Students will record whether they agree or disagree with their partners using the [|graphic organizer]

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Today's Agenda:

 * 1) agenda
 * 2) agenda
 * 3) SCLEs
 * 4) debrief
 * 5) Explain Homework

Copy the Homework in your Planners:
//Orange//: In the Reading Section: 12/05/11 Key Vocabulary [|Practice Test] // Blue: In the Reading Section: // 12/05/11 Key Vocabulary [|Practice Test] // Green : In the Reading Section: // 12/05/11 Key Vocabulary [|Practice Test]