Thursday, March 23rd

Goals: To continue our analysis of "The Pedestrian" by SIFTing the story.

AGENDA

Meet in expert groups to find four best examples of your assigned job.

Meet in Jigsaw groups to gather two examples each of the other assigned jobs.

After meeting in all groups today, you will have your four best examples of your assigned job and two examples of each of the other jobs.  In other words, you will have a total of eight quotes.

Mrs. Karney will give you a partner.  With your partner, you will write a theme statement about the story.  Then you will choose one or more words from the tone list that describes the tone of the story.

THEME STATEMENT

The story "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury uses symbolism, imagery, and figurative language to convey the theme that________________________.

TONE STATEMENT

In his short story, "The  Pedestrian", Ray Bradbury symbolism, imagery, and figurative language to convey a ___________tone about a futuristic society.

TO DO

AOW due tomorrow.
I will give you your log in information for VOKI. Please log in and "play" around with the Voki Presenter.  We will be using it tomorrow.

CLICK HERE!

Wednesday, March 22nd

Good Morning!

We will be changing seats today.  I will also be reviewing procedures for Chromebooks.  

AGENDA

New Seats
Post book review in Kidblog
Look at comments on turnitin.com
Meet in expert groups to discuss whatever you were assigned to look for in "The Pedestrian" (symbolism, imagery, figurative language)
Fill in chart with your group and pick four best examples
SIFT CHART WITH EXAMPLE FILLED IN
BLANK SIFT CHART IN CASE YOU ARE ABSENT

REGROUP
You will now meet with a group that has the other assigned tasks.  

To Do

AOW due on Fridaiy

Tuesday, March 21st

Today we will read "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury!

We will focus on symbolism, imagery, figurative language, theme and tone and how they help convey the theme of the short story.

Text of the Story if Absent

The story takes place in 2053 but was written in 1951!

SIFT Powerpoint

Video of the story (just one person's interpretation)

TO DO

AOW due Friday

Monday, March 20th

AGENDA-SUB TODAY

Goals: To continue to develop our skills as writers. To practice writing well-written sentences. To practice our revision skills.

Copy this sentence seed in your notebook.

The storm hit.

Add this information to your sentence. Use proper punctuation. Remember, it must be ONE sentence.

1. Specify the story or form of precipitation
2. Identify the place where the storm occurred
3. Tell when the storm took place
4. Describe the damage done, casualties resulting, etc.

You can pretend you are a television or newspaper reporter and give the aftermath details of a recent storm in a particular city, town, state, etc.

REVISE THIS PARAGRAPH-You will need to make a copy first. Feel free to use the SAS Writing reviser!

TO DO

AOW due on Friday (Newsela and personal response) Take the quiz.

Friday, March 17th

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Goals: To continue to apply what we've learned in our writing workshops to revising a piece of our choice.

Agenda

Collect AOW
Continue revising a piece of writing of your choice
In order to receive credit, you will complete this sheet showing me what you revised.  
Pre-reading discussion before "The Pedestrian"

To Do

Thursday, March 16th

Active vs Passive Voice-Great Resource and Examples
Notes
Video

SAS Writing Reviser Lesson

Text #1

Text #2

We will be using SAS Writing Reviser.  We will open the SAS Writing Reviser Add-on and look at these two texts to learn more about active vs passive voice.  We will look at number 1 and the passive verbs. Then, we will look at the second number 2 for passive verbs.  Which is better? Why?

Now, you will open one of your previous writing assignments and begin using SAS Writing Reviser to revise for the following:

Consistent verb tense
Active voice
Run-on sentences, fragments, and comma splices

In order to receive credit, you will complete this sheet showing me what you revised.  
Pre-reading discussion before "The Pedestrian"

TO DO

Book review submitted by tonight at 10PM
AOW due tomorrow. Just print out personal response. Make sure to include the title of your article. :)

Wednesday, March 15

Agenda

Run-ons and Comma Splices
We will take notes on the video and play a few games to practice. You may have to play the HTML versions of these games.

Play this

and this

or this


A run-on is a sentence in which two or more independent clauses (i.e complete sentences) are joined without an appropriate punctuation or conjunction for example: It is nearly half past five we cannot reach town before dark.


Sentence fragments are groups of words that look like sentences, but aren't. To be a sentence, groups of words need to have at least one independent clause. An independent clause is any group of words that contain both a subject and a verb and can stand on its own. For example, 'I like cheeseburgers' is an independent clause.

Sentence fragments never have independent clauses, but instead are dependent clauses or phrases. Fragments can masquerade as real sentences because they begin with a capital letter and end with a period. If you read them more closely, you'll see that fragments don't form a complete thought. A sentence fragment is a little like having only half of the pieces to a puzzle. Without all the pieces, you won't have the whole picture.

Examples and Revisions

Fragment Phrases

Phrases are groups of words that are missing a subject or verb, or both. Phrases can also masquerade as sentences, like dependent clauses can. Here are some examples.

Here's an example missing subject and verb:

From morning until night.

This fragment can be made a complete sentence by changing it to:

I worked from morning until night.

Adding 'I' as the subject and 'worked' as the verb corrects this fragment and makes it an independent clause and a complete thought.

Here's an example of a missing subject:

Start after the weekend.

This fragment can be made a complete sentence by changing it to:

Classes start after the weekend.

Adding the subject 'classes' corrects this fragment and makes it an independent clause and a complete thought.

Finally, here's an example of a missing verb:

Some girls in the class.

This fragment can be changed to:

Some girls in the class study together.

Adding the verb 'study' corrects this fragment and makes it an independent clause and a complete thought.

Peer Feedback on Book Reviews

Student Example of Book Review

TO DO

AOW due Friday. Read Newsela article, take quiz, and write 3/4 page personal response.

Book review submitted to turnitin.com by tomorrow night at 10PM.