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Welcome to ELL, 9/22/11

Warm Up: Pick up your book from the back bookshelf, answer the following: 1. Write about a trip you have been on (including coming to the U.s) who was with you? What was it like? . Welcome to ELL, 9/22/11 . I can statement/agenda .

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Welcome to ELL, 9/22/11

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  1. Warm Up: Pick up your book from the back bookshelf, answer the following:1. Write about a trip you have been on (including coming to the U.s) who was with you?What was it like? Welcome to ELL, 9/22/11

  2. I can statement/agenda • Today, 9/22, I can discover literary devices used in “Watsons” by identifying (finding) the ‘hook’, ‘allusion’ and ‘metaphor’. Agenda: • 1. warm up/ turn in homework (10 minutes) • 2. quick lesson: literary devices (10 minutes) • 3. read aloud “Watsons” (25 minutes) • 4. Work on “Watsons” packet (while we read)

  3. What is a literary device? • Literary device: a trick a writer does to make a story more interesting and exciting • Hook: the 1st sentence or paragraph that is interesting and gets the reader excited for the rest of the book “It was a dark and stormy night” • Allusion: when the book talks about a famous person, myth, religion or event “My mom is the Mother Teresa of our house” • Metaphor: a comparison between 2 different things without like or as “That football player is a gorilla!”

  4. Welcome to study hall • 8th graders sit by the door • 7th graders sit by computers • Everyone: • get out silent reading or silent homework • prepare to work silently for the 1st half of study hall

  5. Welcome Historians, 9/22/11 • Materials manager: no notebooks • Warm Up: Turn and talk with your neighbor: • How do you find the main idea in an article? • What text feature gives you the most information about an article before you read it?

  6. I can statement/agenda • Today, 9/22, I can show my development as a summary writer by taking a mini quiz on cyberbullying. • Agenda: • Warm up/announcements (10 minutes) • Summary review lecture (15 minutes) • Mini quiz (25 minutes)

  7. Welcome readers! 9/22/11 • Materials Managers: WRITERS and READERS • Warm Up: • Set up the table of contents in your WRITERS notebook (date, title, page #) • Number the 1st 20 pages (front and back) • Complete this writing warm up on page 1: “ IF you could go on a trip anywhere in the world WITH anyone, where would you go? Who would you take? What would you do? Why?”

  8. I can statement/agenda • Today, 9/22, I can identify whether thick questions can be answered with inference or prediction by assessing my own question quick note. Agenda: • Set up writers/writing warm up (15 minutes) • Question/Inference/Prediction table instructions (10 minutes) • Silent reading/ table work (20 minutes) • Clean up/ announcements (5 minutes)

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