Monday/ Tuesday

Do Now (page 19L)Rewrite and correct the errors in the following paragraph.

charlie wants to buy he little sister a kitten for his birth-day. He thought they would enjoy haveing a little kitten. Charlie is going to pick up the kitten from a shelter. He thinks it will be nice to save a kitten wile gaving her sister a little friend. He planed to give her to his sister this friday, which is her birthday. charlie hopes that she likes the kitten she picks out.

Corrected Paragraph

Charlie wants to buy his little sister a kitten for her birthday. He thinks she will enjoy having a little kitten. Charlie is going to pick up the kitten from a shelter. He thinks it will be nice to save a kitten while giving his sister a little friend. He plans to give it to his sister this Friday, which is her birthday. Charlie hopes that she likes the kitten he picks out.

Quick News…

• Essays are due on Wednesday!!! NO EXCUSES!• Today we will go over some background

information about our 1st class text, “A Raisin in the Sun”.

• 8 weeks until Winter Break! Get those NP’s and low C’s up now!!!

Capitalization (page 20L-R)You will take notes on pages 20L-R in an outline format. (Start on the left side and continue onto the right side.)I.

1.2.3.

II.1.2.3.4.5.

III.1.2.3.4.5.

IV. 1.2.3.4.5.6.

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RULE #1Capitalize the first word of a sentence

Pioneers pushed the American frontier westward.

I. Capitalizing sentences, quotations, and letter parts

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RULE #2Capitalize the first word of a direct quotation that is a complete sentence.

Tyrone said, “The pioneers acted very bravely.”

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RULE #3Capitalize the first word in the

salutation and closing of a letter. Capitalize the title and name of the

person addressed.

Dear Mrs. Johnson,

Dear friend,

Yours truly, Sincerely,

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II. Capitalizing people’s names and titles

Rule #1Capitalize the names of people and the initials that stand for

their names.Meriwether Lewis

Susan B. Anthony

J. F. Cooper

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Rule #2Capitalize a title or an

abbreviation of a title when it comes before a person’s name or

when it is used instead of a name.General Lee Sen. John Glenn

Mrs. Adams

Did Lieutenant Clark say, “Yes, Captain, I’ll go with you’?

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Rule #3Capitalize the names and abbreviations of academic

degrees that follow a person’s name. Capitalize Jr. and Sr.

M. Katayama, M.D.

Jan Rangel, Ph.D.

Robert Ayers Jr.

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Rule #4Capitalize words that show family relationships when used as titles or as substitutes for a person’s

name.In 1960 Father retraced the steps of

Lewis and Clark.

He was accompanied by Uncle Bill

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Rule #5

Always capitalize the pronoun I.

Social studies is the subject I like.

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Capitalize the names of cities, counties, states

countries, and continents.

III. Capitalizing place namesrule #1

Houston Orange County

Iowa Japan

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Capitalize the names of bodies of water and

geographical features.

rule #2

Mediterranean Sea Gulf of Mexico

Niagara Falls Atlantic Ocean

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Capitalize the names of sections of the country.

rule #3

Midwest New England

the Far West

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Capitalize compass points when they refer to a specific section of

the country.

rule #4

the West Coast the North

the Southeast

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Capitalize the names of buildings, bridges, and

monuments.

Chrysler Building Brooklyn Bridge

Washington Monument

rule #5

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IV. Capitalizing other proper nouns and adjectivesRule #1

Capitalize the names of clubs, organizations, businesses, institutions, and political parties.

Data Corporation

Boy Scouts

Republican party

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Rule #2Capitalize brand names but not the nouns following them.

Jiffy peanut butter

Spiffy cleaning fluid

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Rule #3Capitalize the names of important historical events, periods of time, and documents Battle of Yorktown

Bronze Age

Bill of Rights

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Rule #4Capitalize names of days of the week, months of the year, and holidays. Do not capitalize names of the seasons. Thursday

April

Memorial Day

summer

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Rule #5Capitalize the first word, the last word, and all important words in the title of a book, play, short story, poem, essay, article, film television series, song, magazine, newspaper, and chapter of a book.

A Wrinkle in Time

“The Raven”

Washington Post

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Rule #6Capitalize the names of ethnic groups, nationalities, and languages.

Asian

German

Spanish

English

Circle the letters that should be capitalized.

in a little house in spain lives a girl called amanda. she has two sisters, lisa and sally, and one brother called fred. amanda lives in barcelona in spain, which is in europe. she has a pen pal called brian who lives in england. she likes to write to brian so she can practice her english. brian does not know very much spanish, but he is learning a few words. amanda would like to go visit brian in london when she is older. most of all she would like to visit new york.

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Page 19R Capitalization Gallery Walk# Sentence Rule

1 Write the sentence with correct capitalization.

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Page 19R Capitalization Gallery Walk# Sentence Rule

1 I went to Texas last summer. Capitalize states. Don’t capitalize seasons.

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“A Raisin in the Sun” Intro (page 21R)• Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago on May 19, 1930, the youngest

of four children. Her parents were well-educated, successful black citizens who publicly fought discrimination against black people. When Hansberry was a child, she and her family lived in a black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. During this era, segregation—the enforced separation of whites and blacks—was still legal and widespread throughout the South. Northern states, including Hansberry’s own Illinois, had no official policy of segregation, but they were generally self-segregated along racial and economic lines. Chicago was a striking example of a city carved into strictly divided black and white neighborhoods. Hansberry’s family became one of the first to move into a white neighborhood, but Hansberry still attended a segregated public school for blacks. When neighbors struck at them with threats of violence and legal action, the Hansberrys defended themselves. Hansberry’s father successfully brought his case all the way to the Supreme Court.

A Raisin in the Sun (page 21R)• Hansberry wrote that she always felt the inclination to

record her experiences. At times, her writing—including A Raisin in the Sun—is recognizably autobiographical. She was one of the first playwrights to create realistic portraits of African-American life. When “A Raisin in the Sun” opened in March 1959, it met with great praise from white and black audience members alike. Arguably the first play to portray black characters, themes, and conflicts in a natural and realistic manner, “A Raisin in the Sun” received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play of the Year.

(21R) The American Dream

• In the 1600s the American Dream was independence from Great Britain. That dream has been accomplished.

• Today, the American Dream is to come to the United States, get a good paying job, become successful, and provide a good life for your children. Essentially, the American Dream is to “live happily ever after”.

(21R) 1960s• The Civil Rights Movement

– The struggle against racism and segregation entered the mainstream of American life.

– Jim Crow Laws: Separate but equal.

Wednesday

(page 21L) MLK’s Speech

As we watch MLK’s speech, take about a half page of notes on the words and

phrases that stand out to you.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UV1fs8lAbg

(separate sheet of paper) Journal

Answer any of the following questions (responses should be several sentences) Cite specific words and phrases from the speech.

1. What was Dr. King’s dream?2. It has been over 30 years since Martin Luther King, Jr.

made his speech. What has happened to Dr. King’s dream? Has it come true?

3. What is the American Dream today? Is that dream achievable for everyone? Why or why not?

4. What is your dream? How could you achieve that dream?

Thursday/ Friday

Notebook Check1. Switch notebooks with someone at your table.2. On page 22L copy down the following chart…

3. Write a score in each box based on your partner’s notebook.4. At the bottom, write an overall score that is an average of all of the other scores.

Item Score

Table of Contents

Page #s

Dates

Titles

Glossary

Page 11L

Page 14L

Page 16L

Page 20L-R

Item 1 2 3 4 Score

T of C 0-9 entries 10-16 entries 17-20 entries 21 entries

Page #s Page #s on 0-9 pages

Page #s on 10-16 pages

Page #s on 17-20 pages

Page #s on all 21 pages

Dates 0-9 10-16 17-20 All 21

Titles 0-9 10-16 17-20 All 21

Glossary

missing Has 1-3 words Has 4-5 words Has all 6 words

11L 0-1 sentences completed

2-3 sentences completed

4 sentences completed

5 sentences written and corrected

14L 0-1 question complete

2 questions complete

3 questions minimally answered.

3 questions fully answered in complete sentences.

16L 0-1 complete 2-3 complete 4-5 completed All 6 completed

20L-R Very incomplete or missing

Incomplete notes

Complete but not in an outline format

Complete and in an outline format

(page 22R) Elements of Drama• Setting, plot, theme• Act: The major divisions or units a drama is

broken into.• Scenes: The smaller divisions or units an act is

broken into.• Stage Directions: Directions (written in

parenthesis) for the physical movements of an actor on stage.

• Dialogue: Conversation between characters

(page 22R-under elements of drama) Relationships in the play

“Big Walter” Younger = Lena (“Mama”) Younger (dead)

Ruth = Walter Lee “little Claude” Beneatha + Joshep Asagai (dead) + George Murchison

Travis Younger = married to+ dating

Vocabulary Quiz #2Set up your paper like this…

# Spelling Definition POS123456789

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Vocabulary Quiz #2-Answers…

# Spelling Definition POS1 Receive #9 Verb 2 Vein #8 Noun 3 Repeat #2 Verb 4 Hydroelectricity #5 Noun 5 Fire hydrant #6 Noun 6 Tricycle #10 Noun 7 Triangle #1 Noun 8 Ceiling #3 Noun 9 Grief #4 Noun

10 Weight #7 Noun

Roots (page 23L)ACT = DO/ MOVE ANTI = AGAINST/

OPPOSITEMULTI = MANY

Activities (n): active movements

Antibodies (n): Proteins in the body that fight against bad bacteria.

Multiplying (v): Making more or increasing number

Actions (n); something done or performed

Antipollution (adj): Something designed to reduce pollution

Multitude (n): a great number

Symbol/ drawing:

Spelling Rule #2 (page 23R)

A final y changes to i when an ending is added

• supply becomes supplies• worry becomes worried• merry becomes merrier

• . . . except when that ending is -ing. . . • crying, studying

• . . . And when the y is preceded by a vowel. . . .• obeyed, saying

(page 23R) Try it…In your notebooks, do the following problems:

• 1.) make the following words plural:– Supply– Puppy– Candy – Grocery

• 2.) add an –ing to the following words:– Dry– Study– Worry– Walk

• 3.) add –er to the following words:– Happy– Supply– Scary– Funny

• 4.) make the following words past tense:– Supply– Dry– Study– Worry

New Words (page 24R)Word POS Definition

1. Activities Noun Active movements

2. Antibodies Noun Proteins in the body that fight against bad bacteria.

3. Multiplying Verb Making more or increasing number

4. Multitude Noun A great number

5. Antipollution Adj Something designed to reduce pollution

6. Supplied Verb To provide something that is missing

7. Obeyed Verb To follow the command or instructions

8. Actions Noun Something done or performed

9. Slaying verb To destroy or kill

10. Scarier Adj Comparison of something frightening

(page 24L) Context Clues

Answer the following question in 2 sentences:• What are context clues?

HUH?

• Sometimes, we all come across words we don’t know.

• What do you do when you see a word you don’t know? Panic? Skip over it? Decide the reading is too hard and pick a new book?

I will help you solve the “huh?” problem!

• By reading the words and other text that surround an unfamiliar word, you can determine the meaning of the word.

• This is what we will focus on today!

What are context clues??

• Every word you hear or see has a context. The context goes a long way toward giving meaning to a word.

• The CONTEXT of a word means the group of words—the sentence or passage—that surrounds it.

• When you come across a word that has an unknown meaning to you, look at the words around it and they will help you identify the meaning of the unknown word.

But…how do we do it??USING CONTEXT CLUES

• 1.) Read the sentence carefully and focus on the overall meaning.

• 2.) Look for clues in nearby words.• 3.) Guess the meaning of the unfamiliar word.• 4.) Reread the sentence and see whether your guess

seems to fit.• 5.) Check your guess in a dictionary, if possible.

Let’s look at some examples…• The audience was so upset about the outcome of the basketball game

that a skirmish broke out and the police had to break it up.– 1.) Focus on the overall meaning: This passage is talking about the audience

being upset about something that happened at the basketball game, that the police had to break up.

– 2.) Clues in nearby words: We know that the audience was upset and that the police had to break something up.

– 3.) Guess the meaning: A fight.– 4.) See if our guess fits in the sentence: “The audience was so upset about

the outcome of the basketball game that a fight broke out and the police had to break it up.

– 5.) Check our guess. Yes!!

Try one on your own!!(Write out the steps on your own paper)

• I was complaining about being so thirsty that my mom handed me a gargantuan water bottle instead of the normal-sized one I usually used. – Steps:

• 1.)• 2.)• 3.)• 4.)• 5.) (Skip)

– What does the word mean??

How do we do this?

• Let’s take a look at an example together:Sentence: The sheer rock face was difficult to

climb.

The word sheer is not familiar to us, but if you take a look at the other words in the sentence, they can help us figure out what sheer means.

So what does sheer mean?

• The sheer rock face was difficult to climb.

• Knowing that something difficult to climb would be steep, you can determine that sheer means “steep”

1. The scientist prepared the medium in which she would cultivate the bacteria. What does medium mean in this sentence?

A. middle size or degreeB. form of communicationC. substance for conducting electricityD. mixture with nutrients

2. Based on clues in the following passage, what does the word ethnic mean?

By the early 1900s, American cities had people from many different ethnic groups living and working side by side. Those included people of German, Irish, Polish, Italian, and Russian backgrounds.

A. how much money someone earnsB. national background of one’s ancestorsC. moral behaviorD. kind of job someone has

3. Based on the following passage, what does the word aqueduct mean?

Ancient Roman builders learned how to make domed roofs and arches. Arches were important in building aqueducts. The Romans channeled water from faraway mountains to their cities using canals and raised aqueducts.

A. a raised channel built to carry water long distances

B. a domed roofC. a type of arch used in churchesD. a natural waterway