English 7

Week 3

Today…

• Review

• Learn about our reading logs

• Complete some vocabulary flash-cards for a poem we will be reading.

Review—What are the complete subjects in the following sentences?

1. The fluffy kitten slept in the hallway.2. Maria went to school on the bus.3. The anxious team sat quietly on the benches.

What are the simple subjects in the following sentences?

• The fluffy kitten slept in the hallway.• Maria went to school on the bus.• The anxious team sat quietly on the benches.

What are the complete predicates in the following sentences?

• The fluffy kitten slept in the hallway.• Maria went to school on the bus.• The anxious team sat quietly on the benches.

What are the simple predicates in the following sentences?

• The fluffy kitten slept in the hallway.• Maria went to school on the bus.• The anxious team sat quietly on the benches.

Independent Reading• Each quarter you will be reading a novel on your own.

• You will keep track of your reading on your reading log that you will turn in each week.

• Please see handout.

• Tell me the name of the book you have decided on by this Friday, September 23rd.

• First log will be collected Friday, September 30th.

What chores do you have at home?

Vocabulary

• We will be making flash cards for new vocabulary words we face in our passages.

scour(skour)

Verb: clean by rubbing vigorously.

Sentence

Cinderella had to scour all the dirty dishes before she could go to bed.

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withered

(with’ ərd)

Adj. Dried up

Sentence

The girl wasn’t very happy receiving withered flowers.

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Cellophane

(səl’-ĕ fān’)

Noun a flexible thin transparent sheet used as a wrapping for food.

Sentence

• Please put some cellophane over the mashed potatoes before putting them into the fridge.

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Curdled

(kər’ dəld)

Adj. Thickened; clotted

Sentence

The expired milk is curdled. Throw it away!

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fate(feyt)

Noun: destiny; what will eventually happen to a person.

Sentence

Is it your fate to become a lottery-winner?

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• Or insert your own picture!

For homework

• Complete five of your own example sentences using your new vocabulary words.

• Let’s review vocabulary.

• Read “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out”

• Visualizing while we read.

Reading “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the

Garbage Out”by Shel Silverstein

page 366

2nd reading: As we read…• I make a moving picture in my mind of the words

I read.

• This picture changes as I read more.

• This picture helps me remember and better understand what I’m reading!

• Use your double-entry diary to record what you visualize.

Writing prompt

• What if you had to live with all the trash you ever created? What if there was no garbage collection service to remove, hide away, bury all our waste? What if every water bottle, every Styrofoam take-a-way box, every milk jug, every cereal box we ever bought, we had to somehow dispose of in our own house or yard? How would your home look different? How would your buying choices change?

Brainstorming:

Disaster!

Turning our thoughts into a full sentence.

Expository writing (factual writing) uses a certain format:

Topic SentenceTopic SentenceFact, Detail, or Reason SentenceFact, Detail, or Reason SentenceExample, Explanation, Evidence SetenceExample, Explanation, Evidence SetenceConcluding SentenceConcluding Sentence

• Green --- Go! Introduce your topic. Green --- Go! Introduce your topic.

• Yellow --- Slow down! Give a fact, detail, or Yellow --- Slow down! Give a fact, detail, or reason.reason.

• Red—Stop! Explain yourself. Red—Stop! Explain yourself.

• Green– Remind your reader of your topic. Green– Remind your reader of your topic.

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So my topic sentence for this writing prompt may be something like…

• ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

• If I had to live with all the trash that I ever created, my life would be a disaster!

Then I would include a fact, detail, or fact, detail, or reasonreason

• ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

• My home would be very dirty.

Then I would give an example or example or explainexplain my f/d/rf/d/r

• _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

• There would be garbage outside on the lawn, and all over the floor.

Let’s add another fact, detail, or fact, detail, or reason. reason.

• ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

And then we have to explainexplain this further.

• ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

And then we end in a concluding sentence concluding sentence which reminds our reader of our topic.

• _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________