Language Arts Agenda for Sept. 4 - 7 , 2012

Language Arts Agenda for Sept. 4 - 7, 2012 • Retrieve notebook and open ticket container • Write HW in Agenda: - • Begin HIPSOMA Poem – due Friday, 9/7 • Bring in portable jump-drivewith beginning of HIPSOMA Poem. • Begin Warm-up - writing

Language Arts Agenda for Sept. 4, 2012 • Retrievenotebook and open ticket container. • Write HW in Agenda: - • Begin HIPSOMA Poem – due Friday, 9/7 • Bring in jump-drive with start of HIPSOMA Poem on it. • Begin Writing Warm-up Date: 9-4-12 Prompt: If you could be a book character, who would you be and why? (5 sentence response)

Language Arts Agenda for Sept. 5, 2012 • Retrieve notebook, Netbook & open ticket container. • Write HW in Agenda: - • Add to HIPSOMA Poem – due Friday, 9/7. • Bring in jump-drive with partial HIPSOMA Poem on it. • Begin Writing Warm-up Date: 9-5-12 Prompt: Think about the many things that have wheels. How would the world be different if the wheel had never been invented? (5 sentence response) • Log on.

Language Arts Agenda for Sept. 6, 2012 • Retrievenotebook, Netbook and open ticket container. • Write HW in Agenda: - • Add to HIPSOMA Poem – due Friday, 9/7. • Bring in jump-drive with partial HIPSOMA Poem on it. • Begin Writing Warm-up Prompt: In 1620 the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower and sailed away to England to settle a new land. As you start the new school year, what do you leave behind from last year? What do you look forward to? (5 sentence response) • Log-in.

Language Arts Agenda for Sept. 7, 2012 • Retrieve notebook and open ticket container. • Write HW in Agenda: - • Add to HIPSOMA Poem – due Friday, 9/7. • Bring in jump-drive with partial HIPSOMA Poem on it. • Begin Writing Warm-up Prompt: Do you have a special place at home to do your homework? If so, what is the place like? Describe a good work place. If you don’t have a work place at home, ask your parents if you can prepare one this week. (5 sentence response)

Language Arts Sept. 4, 2012 • View Figurative Language PPT (HIPSOMA) • Go over model of HIPSOMA Poem • Begin work on HIPSOMA Poem

Figurative Language Resource • Hyperbole: An obvious exaggeration. Sometimes it is confused with a simile or metaphor. (Example: Mrs. Jones gives tons of homework.) • Idiom: a phrase or expression that means something different from what the words actually say. (Example: It is raining cats and dogs.) • Personification: Giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea. (Example: The pencil danced across the [paper.) • Simile: Compares two things that are unlike but have some qualities in common. It does use the words like or as. (My nose is red like a cherry. My nose is as red as a cherry.) • Onomatopoeia: The use of words whose sounds echo their meaning. (Example: The bee went buzz.) • Metaphor: Compares two things that are unlike but have the same qualities in common. It doesnot use the words like or as. (Example: The tree is a ballerina in green.) • Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of word. (Example: The wild woolly walrus waits and wonders when we’ll walk by.)

Language Arts Sept. 5, 2012 • Smart Board – review of simple and compound sentences • Students continue work on computers (HIPSOMA Poems). Remember to use resource sheet from notebook.

Language Arts Sept. 6, 2012

Language Arts Sept. 7, 2012

Simple vs. Compound Sentences • What is the difference?

Simple Sentences • A simple sentence contains a ________________ and a _______________. • It can stand all by itself. It is independent which means it does not have to depend on anything else. Therefore we call it an • _________________________________ clauses.

Compound Sentences A compound sentence is made up of two _________________________________ clauses.

Compound Sentences There are two types of compound sentences. One contains a ___________________________ conjunction that separates the independent clauses. We remember these conjunctions by calling them _________________________________.

Compound Sentences We remember the coordinating conjunctions by calling them FANBOYS. F = ___________________________________ A= ___________________________________ N= ___________________________________ B= ___________________________________ O= ___________________________________ Y= ___________________________________ S= ___________________________________

Compound Sentences When we use a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS) in a compound sentence, we place a __________________________ in front of it. , FANBOYS

Compound Sentences • Another way to represent a compound sentence is to use a __________________________________ between the two independent sentences. ;

Practice: Simple vs. Compound Sentences Practice worksheet. Finish for HW.

Elements of Poetry Stanza = a group of lines, usually similar in length and pattern. Many stanzas in poems are divided by a _________________________. They look very much like a ________________________________ in a book. Each stanza usually talks about one ___________________.

Elements of Poetry Verse = a single _______________________ of a poem. It may be a complete __________________________, but must of the time it is a sentence ___________________________.

Elements of Poetry “Lighting a Fire” by X. J. Kennedy One quick scratch of a kitchen match And giant flames unzip! How do they store So huge a roar In such a tiny tip?

Elements of Poetry How many stanzas? _________________ How many verses?__________________ The three lines (verses) in each stanza make up a single __________________________. And each stanza contains its own main _____________________.

Elements of Poetry • RHYME = a repetition of ____________________________________ at the end of words. (i.e. bleak and streak rhyme).

Elements of Poetry RHYTHM = sound pattern created by stressed and unstressed syllables. Stressed syllables receive more emphasis than unstressed syllables. i.e. “The morns are meeker than they were,”

I AM Poem I AM (my 1st stanza) • I AM caring and understanding. • I WONDER what the homeless people do. • I HEAR sleigh bells ringing. • I SEE a snowman dancing. • I WANT peace on our Earth. • I AM caring and understanding.

I AM Poem I AM (my 2nd stanza) • I PRETEND to be a robot walking around. • I FEEL like a bird that is flying. • I can TOUCH the moon. • I WORRY about my nieces and nephews. • I CRY about the unfairness in the world. • I AM caring and understanding.

I AM Poem I AM (my 3rd stanza) • I PRETEND to be a robot walking around. • I FEEL like a bird that is flying. • I can TOUCH the moon. • I WORRY about my nieces and nephews. • I CRY about the unfairness in the world. • I AM caring and understanding.

I AM Poem I AM (my 4th stanza) • I UNDERSTAND how other people feel. • I SAY be nice to each other. • I DREAM about children laughing. • I TRY to be fair to other people. • I HOPE others will find happiness. • I AM caring and understanding

Adding Pics To I AM Poem

Language Arts Agenda for Sept. 4 - 7 , 2012