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“Subjects/Verbs, 8/27.” (10)  Name the SUBJECT and PREDICATE of each sentence below. Each answer should be two words only!

1. My friend, the aloof llama, practices his guitar almost daily.
2. With a groovy beat, the llama rhymed his words.
3. He felt frightened in his dream of a giant, monster llama.
4. The llama on a unicycle ate a doughnut.
5. Because of his loneliness, the llama was a little sad.

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Writing!

SHOW not TELL
“Don’t tell us that the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.”
-Samuel Clemens

He was talking about writing. What did he mean?

cool, pretty, fun, scary, weird, ugly
What does each of these things actually LOOK like?

These are actually opinions, NOT descriptions! (Yes, I know they are technically adjectives.)
What’s “cool” to you could be “gross” to me or your mom!
You need to show us what this looks, sounds, tastes, smells, feels like!

You need to describe in detail what this might LOOK/SOUND/SMELL/FEEL like:
Compare two examples…

Assignment:  “My Room is Such a Mess” (don’t call it that, though) due next Wednesday, 9/4. 
Show me the most nightmarish room imaginable. I want to feel, see, hear, taste (ewww), smell everything.
1 page (350+ words), Google Doc with a title shared with me. mess(y), gross, disgusting, dirty, stinky, etc. No opinions, just *WDILL?

(*What Does It Look Like?)

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“Vocab, 8/27” No need to copy anything; write the appropriate vocabulary word. You may use words more than once.

aloof, elite, wince, elude, incredulous, contemptuous, roguish, gallant, facade, ironic, asset

1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. _____
5. _____ (LOL)
6. The gentleman _____(ly) opened the door for the ladies.
7. At the party, he stood ______(ly) off to the side of the room, quietly watching the festivities.
8. It was rather _______ that her dog was run over by an Animal Rescue vehicle.
9. The root of this word meant “at a distance.”
10. common : elite :: cowardly : ______
11. gain : freedom :: _____ : capture
12. The Socs are the _____ social class in 1967 Tulsa, Oklahoma.
13. “Guess what I’ve been in jail for?” asked Dally, grinning ____(ly).

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“Outsiders, 8/26.” Collaborative in notebook.

1. How are Ponyboy’s feelings about being called a hood different from Dally’s?  Ponyboy is sort of _____, (p15) while Dally is ______. (p22)
2. Why doesn’t Dally hit Johnny for telling him what to do? (p25)
3. Why would someone like Johnny have someone like Dally as his hero? (p25)
4. It seems that the main quality greasers prize and look for in each other is ______. (p26)
5. What we mean when we say gang today Ponyboy would call a _____  (p26)

 

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Advisory Schedule. Link to Slides.

Copy Homework into Planner:

• KBARR ! Read 15 minutes M-Th, get chart signed (in notebook), respond 1 page (in notebook) by Friday. (Here are some more ideas for responding.)
• Vocabulary due Tuesday, Wednesday.
  • Defns. from LearnersDictionary due Tuesday.
  • SMYK’s due Thursday.
• “My Room is Such a Mess” due next Wednesday, 9/4. (Deets Soon.)

I will explain the Messy Room either Tomorrow or Wednesday.

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Debrief Test #1.

The Outsiders aloud.

 

Last ten minutes you start on definitions while we fix test score issues.

Prep your sheet for Test #1:

KBARR: ___/24 (6p x 4)
SMYK: ___10
Vocab Practice: 8-20___/13 8-21:____/13 8-22:___/13

Listening Quiz (last week, 8-16): ___/10
Other Bonus: Period 3: +2 for vocab relay

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Mental Floss. Do on back of test sheet.

1. A boat has a ladder hanging off the side that has six rungs. Each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises at 12 inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at its highest, how many rungs are under water?
2. Show how it is possible to name the capital of each and every one of the United States in less than a minute.
3. Which is correct, “bigger of two halves” or “biggest of two halves”?
4. Johnny’s mother had four children. The first was April, the second was May, and the third was June. What was the name of her fourth child?
5. There are ten sheep walking in a straight line across a field. What numbered sheep can look back and say he is the third from the last in line?
6. A house painter paints numbers on all the new houses in a neighborhood from 1-100. How many times does he have to paint the digit 9? (Not a trick; I’m just betting you can’t count.)

 

Clickers!

1. Circle/Write the Letter on the sheet.
2. Click that letter and then the square arrow key. It should move you to the next question.
3. The black arrow keys move you back and forth between questions.
4. The Round Arrow Deletes your answer.
5. When you end up back at 1, you are finished.

Test #1.

Optional Doodle Theme: The messiest, most disgusting place you can imagine.

Tomorrow’s Test: Classwork, Adjectives, Vocab, Outsiders. Preview copy up after Period 4.

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“Adjectives, 8/22.” List the adjectives in each sentence (1-4). There is one sentence with none. Write “none” for that one.

1. With a groovy beat playing, the llama smoothly rhymed his words.
2. A frightened 7th grader woke up from his horrible dream of a giant, purple llama.
3. Yesterday Jimmy sadly said goodbye to his pet llama with a bad haircut.
4. The llama on a unicycle ate a doughnut.
5. List the five vocab words that can be used as adjectives.

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“Vocab, 8/22.” bliss, infer, bleak, nonchalant, gingerly, rueful, savvy, conform, sage, fathom, connotation

1. Ignorance is ____ means you can’t be sad about things you don’t know about.
2. The coach yelled at me for being too ____ at practice. He said I needed to work harder.
3. Some people called him weird, but he preferred to be called a (non-)______(ist).
4. The old man was considered the ____ of the village because of all his experience and wisdom.
5. The root of this word means “shape.” _____
6. The roots of this word mean “not being concerned.” _____
7. The root of this word was old French for “delicate and graceful.” _____
8. sadness : bliss :: ignorance : _____
9. hopeful : bleak :: proud : _____
10. (4) The mystery was (un)______(able). No one had solved it in over 100 years, but the ____ _____ was able to _____ the solution from the evidence.

VOCAB RELAY!

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The Outsiders.

What does every story have to have in order to be a story?

Test Section Preview.
Darry, Soda, Two-Bit, Steve, Ponyboy, Dallas, Johnny

1. …doesn’t understand anything that isn’t “plain, hard fact”  _____
2. Thinks Pony is a “tagalong and a kid.” _____
3. An actual hoodlum. _____
4. The loner of the crew. _____
5. Goes to school “just for kicks.” _____
6. The gang is kind of his substitute family. ____
7. The most understanding and sympathetic one. ____

(BTSN Video)

Checking KBARR. SMYK’s due tomorrow. Show Me You Know Sentences. (In notebook.) Copy the starters on your vocab sheet and complete into sentences that SHOW ME YOU KNOW what the words mean.

 

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“Adjectives, 8/21.” (11) List the adjectives in each sentence.

1. With his silly attitude, he fits the role of the jester perfectly.
2. The running criminal was finally tackled.
3. I wonder how Vivian can afford to wear the very latest styles.
4. Two-Bit nodded wisely. “Nice cut, too. Makes you look like a tough guy.”
5. Ruefully the wicked llama apologized for his wrong actions.
6. The llama, with its pink horns, is his favorite animal.
7. I really like lemon pie with vanilla ice cream..

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“Vocab, 8/21.” (13p)
bliss, infer, bleak, nonchalant, gingerly, rueful, savvy, conform, sage, fathom, connotation

           

9. The roots of this word meant “to make a note in addition.”
10. A person who doesn’t like to ______ to the group is often looked at as an outsider.
11. Even though their denotations (definitions) are similar, the words nosy and curious have different _____(s).
12. He nodded ____(ly) and said, “It would have been wiser to have someone pick you up.”
13. Her outlook on life was very _____ after the accident that killed her brother.

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“Outsiders, 8/21.”Which Outsiders character… (Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darry, Steve, Johnny)

1. …gets drunk on just plain living?
2. …likes to “lone it”?
3. …doesn’t understand anything but “cold, hard facts”?
4. …was badly beaten by the Socs?
5. …thinks Ponyboy is a “tag-along and a kid”?

1st, 2nd, 3rd person narrators and their pronouns.

 

1st: I, me, we, us
2nd: you  (rare)
3rd: he, she they

 

Advantages and disadvantages of 1st vs. 3rd.

What does every story have to have in order to be a story?

Read Aloud.