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Wednesday, 10/5: Perfect, Vocabulary, Story Time, Outsiders

Checking Show-Me-You-Knows.

“Warm Up, 10/5.” Is It Perfekt II?

“Vocab Practice II, 10/5.” More than one possible on some.
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  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____ (Not aplomb this time.)
  5. confused : savvy :: bored : ______(ed)
  6. His feeling of accomplishment was ______(ed) when he found out that EVERYONE received an A on the test.
  7. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This means that whoever is doing the _____(ing) is the one judging how beautiful something is.
  8. She speaks both French and German with equal ______.
  9. His political ____(s) tried to prevent him from winning the election.
  10. Which word best captures the Soc’s attitude  (attitude!) toward the greasers? ____
  11. He was ___(ed) to his room until his homework was finished.
  12. As the snowfall ____(ed), we were finally able to see the road.
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  13. ***______     14. ***_____   15.***_____

 

VOCABULARY RELAY!!!

 

Sample Stories. Fictional this time.
(4)Purpose/Organization: What’s the point, BME, the story itself.
(4)Development/Elaboration: The details, the telling of the story.
(2)Conventions. Punctuation, spelling, etc.

 

Outsiders

Tuesday, 10/4: Vocabulary, Story Examples, Outsiders

“Warm Up, 10/4.” Is It Perfect? #1
List all the mistakes you find and how to fix them. +1 point for each correctly found and fixed, -1 for each missed and/or each wrongly corrected.

Checking vocab definitions.

“Vocab Practice I, 10/4.” All pics!

Story examples w/scoring.
(4)Purpose/Organization: What’s the point, BME, the story itself.
(4)Development/Elaboration: The details, the telling of the story.
(2)Conventions. Punctuation, spelling, etc.

3-3-2 or better is the goal for all!

The Outsiders.

 

 

Monday, 10/3: SAWs for Homies, Copy Homework, Debrief Test #6, Outsiders

SAWs for Homies.
justify, alternative, react, rely, proportion
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  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. We had to come up with a(n) _____ for butter when we ran out.
  6. “Every action has an equal and opposite _____(ion).”
  7. My mom made me _____ why I needed a new phone before she said yes.

 

Copy homework into assignment book. Let’s talk proofreading. Let’s talk story.

Debrief Test #6.

The Outsiders.

 

Friday, 9/30: Paperwork, Mental Floss, Test #6

Prep sheet for Test #6:
FROs Homework: ___/15  (5 + 10)
KBARR:___/40  (Write B if you blogged.)
Vocabulary Homework:___/20
Warm Ups: 9/27: ___/15   9/28: ___/14   9/29:___/14
Other Extra Credit may include: FROs practice (up to +3 each), +3 for VRelay for Period 1 (+1 for Per 3), bonus plot questions for +1 each.

 

Mental Floss.

  1. What can be seen in the middle of March and April that cannot be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
  2. What is 3/7 chicken + 2/3 cat + 1/2 goat?
  3. I am so fragile that when you say my name you break me. What am I?
  4. What letter can you place on the line, other than E, to complete this sequence?
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  5. 5 + 5 + 5 = 550 Add ONE STRAIGHT LINE to make the equation correct. No, you can’t make a not equal sign. That would be an inequality, not an equation.
  6. While riding in the car I saw a license plate that read like this: IXMNIZ. What occupation did the man in the car have?

TEST #6
Note I: #29 has no correct answer. Please choose E if you want to get it correct.
Note II: If you earned 10/10 on the FROs Pretest, skip 15-24. Use your forward button to skip to #25. When we look at scores, mentally add 10 to get your actual score.

NOTE III: The back of the test is OPEN BOOK AND OPEN MOUTH. You may share answers as you see fit. Once collaboration begins, you MAY NOT turn back to the first part of the test.

 

DOODLE THEME: FUN!

Thursday, 9/29: Vocabulary, FROs, Outsiders, Plot

Tomorrow’s Test: Vocabulary (including SAWs), FROs, Outsiders/Plot, Husker Du.

Blog of the Day: Rozy Can Read!

“Vocabulary, 9/29.” *** = Current SAW.
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1.”Don’t blame me! I don’t make the laws, I just _____them!”
2. “What’s a _____, Joey?” “I knew you were going to say that!”
3. It was Ug’s discovery, but it would be____(ed) by others.
4. “Finding work may not make you happy, but it would make me _____(ly) happy.”
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6. The adventurer’s ______(s) made for a great novel.
7. The school newspaper has been __ for a long while, but they hope to revive it next year.
8. Grandpa Simpson likes to ____ about his days as a young man.
9. The greasers and the Socs have agreed to a sort of _____-fire before the rumble. They have agreed not to fight until the big one.
10. The large farm owners are often accused of ____(ing) the workers who pick the crops.
11. I was _____ and bored when Mom made me go to my sister’s ballet recital.
12. The villain’s evil plot was ______(ishly) clever.
13.  *** (2) He made a ______ and generous ______(ion) to the Save the Whales campaign. (There is only one answer for the first blank, not two.)

 

VOCABULARY RELAY!!!

FROs.
EXAMPLE 1: The dry desert soil and hardly any water. CS, RO, F? WHY?
EXAMPLE 2: Not much rain falls in the desert, some animals still live there.  CS, RO, F? WHY?

“FROs Pretest, 9/29.” CS, RO, F? 10/10 = EXEMPT!

  1. Hide in burrows and beneath rocks.
  2. As I wandered too close to the fire.
  3. With a sword in one hand and a shield in the the other.
  4. Herds of fiendish llamas called dooms roam the empty countryside.
  5. Months may pass between attacks when they do occur, they are violent.
  6. There are shells all over the beach, let’s collect some!
  7. Is this a fragment?
  8. The strange life of the llama.
  9. Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.
  10. Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after.

 

Outsiders and Plot. Bonus Lightning Round.

After we are introduced to the characters and their situations in the 1)______, we get to the 2)______, which sets our story in motion. The 3)______ is usually the longest part of the story and full of ups and downs. This is where we build up the anticipation for the 4)_____ of the story, which is the highest point of the action in the story and steers us toward our 5)_______.