root word section in your comp book

Root Word Section in your comp book

Root Word Definition Sentence Pictogram

bio life

I dream of being a

biologist who lives in each

biome I study.

QW: Should a bear be killed for attacking a camper in his/her tent?

BIO

Root Word Pre-TestDoesn’t count against your grade! Helps you know which root words to studyWrite the letter of the best answer by the root

word (best guesses are better than no guess)

To grade, put a check next to each one you got right

TAuth

Theme

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While reading, ask yourself…

What is the text mostly about?

Nearly everything in the text relates to…

Main Idea / Theme

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Theme - FICTION (made up)

Reveals A lesson or messageabout how the world works

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Supporting Details can be Stumpers…

Sometimes we think a Supporting Detail is

the Main Ideaor Theme.

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To test if it’s a supporting detail, ask…

Does this bit of information add to my

understanding of a

BIGGER TOPIC?

If it does, it’s a Supporting Detail

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Supporting

DetailSupportin

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Detail Supporting

DetailSupporting DetailSupporting

DetailSupportin

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Detail

Main Idea / Theme

T

SDTheme

What is the main idea of that passage?

The biggest idea?

Why do people want to “divert [their] thoughts and clear [their] thinking” ?



co, con, com

together, with

My co-workers and I are packed

into the English office,

but that makes it easy

to communicate.

c + o

QW: When, if ever, are weapons of mass destruction justified?

T Auth

SD

SDBorn w/ mental retardation

Annotate your thoughts

DivertTo change your path or change your mind

Di vertWriter’s Craft

Diction (D) = precise word choice

From: DURLAND, KARA R. Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 12:17 PM To: HEGERT, TODD S.; SISNEROS, JOSHUA DAVID; ROMINE, DAVE W; HIENTON, JEFFREY D.; WOLKEN, LESLIE C. Subject: RE: Collaboration skills

___________________________________________ Per: _______ Participation Rubric

4 = always 3 = often 2 = sometimes 1 = seldom or never

What is the best quality you have to offer a partner or group ? RAPT response on back in complete sentence.

Restate the question Answer the question Prove it using an example Thoroughly explain how your example proves you’d be a good partner.

1. Work with 1 or 2 peers.2. Read the Participation Rubric.3. Be ready to write at the end of class: What is the best quality you offer a partner?

Annotate for…• Diction (D) = strong, precise word choice (3-4)

• Symbolism (Symb) = a thing or person symbolizes (represents) something else (3)

e.g., a red rose is a symbol for love

• Author’s Purpose (AP) =why the author wrote it (2-3)

• Theme (Th.) = moral or lesson humans can learn (1-2)

• Irony (IR) = something that is the opposite of what it seems like it would be (1-2)

Theme = ______________________ Auth Purpose = ______________________________



circum

About, around

Large-circumference heads don’t

mean a person is

more intelligent.

CI c

R um

QW: If you don’t agree with something, like a war or nuclear weapons, what’s the best way to oppose it?

From: DURLAND, KARA R. Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 12:17 PM To: HEGERT, TODD S.; SISNEROS, JOSHUA DAVID; ROMINE, DAVE W; HIENTON, JEFFREY D.; WOLKEN, LESLIE C. Subject: RE: Collaboration skills

___________________________________________ Per: _______ Participation Rubric

4 = always 3 = often 2 = sometimes 1 = seldom or never

What is the best quality you have to offer a partner or group ? RAPT response on back in complete sentence.

Restate the question Answer the question Prove it using an example Thoroughly explain how your example proves you’d be a good partner.

1. Make sure your name is on the top of your annotated short story. 2. Fill out your Participation Rubric.3. Write in complete sentences on the back: What is the best quality you offer a partner?

The best quality I offer a partner would have to be my unrelenting focus. If my partner or

someone near us, threatens to pull us off task, by talking about something personal, for

example, I will reliably draw us right back to the work we're supposed to be doing. I'll

usually point to wherever we left off and ask a question like, "So, what did we decide to

annotate right here in the story?" If that doesn't work, I go ahead and annotate it and ask

my partner to see if it looks correct, giving that person a specific task that will, hopefully,

focus my partner's attention back on our work.

R = Restate the question A = Answer itP = Prove my answer with evidence or an exampleT = Thoroughly explain how my proof proves my point

R A

T

P


Root Word Definition Sentence Pictog ram

contra,

contro

against

I avoid controversial

topics when talking to people I don’t

know.

Contra

Contra

JW: Do you push and pull others more than they push and pull you?

10 Minute Annotation Partners

• Refer to your yellow ARG for everything you should annotate. (Front and Back!)

• Both partners annotate their own short story – these will be graded!

• Annotate only pages 1 and 2

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Think like a Writer.Common CRAFT used in Fiction

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Annotate the story• Title (T) • Author (A)• Imagery (Imag) – words that create a vivid image in your mind (5)• Diction (D) – strong, precise word (8)• Metaphor (Met.) (1)• Similes (Sim.) (1)• Personification (Person.) – giving human qualities to something inhuman (2) • Auth Purpose (AP) – Why did he write this? (1)• Theme (Th) -- life lesson or moral (1)

At the end of the story, in the white space, write …A.P. = Theme =

Then write what you believe the author’s purpose was for writing this story, and what the theme (moral or life lesson) is in this story.

TA

Imag SD – planning a murderD

Annotate Pg 3 Independently• Imagery (Imag) – words that create a vivid image in your mind (2)• Diction (D) – strong, precise word (2)• Metaphor (Met.) (1)• Personification (Person.) – giving human qualities to something inhuman (1) • Turning Point in the story (TP) (1)

At the end of the story, in the white space, write …

1. A.P. = Write a statement of what you believe the author’s purpose was for writing this story. What is he trying to tell us about the human world and nature?

2. Theme = Write a short Theme Statement. What theme (moral or life lesson) can we humans learn from this story?

3. Irony = What is ironic that happens in the story? (opposite of what you think should happen)



dens thick

Unlike balsa, oak is a dense

wood used for flooring.

DENS

JW: What would you want if you could change one thing in your life?

Things to know• Money to buy books due today

• Signed syllabus due today

• Bring a book or magazine tomorrow – 15 minutes of Independent Reading time

• Today’s 2nd story is grade for Fiction Formative (rather than Friday’s)

• Root Word Quiz Friday - Roots 1-10

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Think like a Writer.Common CRAFT used in Fiction

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BEAUTIFUL & CRUELWrite margin notes all over!

• How does she feel about herself?• How does she see her sister? • How does she feel about her sister?• How does her mother see her now? In the future?• How does her mother's view of her influence the way she sees herself?• What does it mean to

1. "decided not to grow up tame" like the others who 2. "lay their necks on the threshold" 3. "waiting for the ball and chain."

• Why does the author say there's always a woman in the movies with "red red lips"? • Why not just "red"?• What does it mean if a woman "drives the men crazy and laughs them all away"? • What does it mean if your power is your own and you don't give it away?• Remember how Cisneros feels about herself at the start of the story. • How is she different from the movie women?• What does Cisneros want to be like as a woman?• How will she become that woman?• What does she mean by "I have begun my own “quiet war”. I …”leave[s] the table like a man, without

putting back the chair or picking up the plate"?• How can these actions help her become the woman she wants to be?

Beautiful & Cruel by Sandra Cisneros (from The House on Mango Street) I am an ugly daughter. I am the one nobody comes for. Nenny says she won't wait her whole life for a husband to come and get her, that Minerva's sister left her mother's house by having a baby, but she doesn't want to go that way either. She wants things all her own, to pick and choose. Nenny has pretty eyes and it's easy to talk that way if you are pretty. My mother says when I get older my dusty hair will settle and my blouse will learn to stay clean, but I have decided not to grow up tame like the others who lay their necks on the threshold waiting for the ball and chain. In the movies there is always one with red red lips who is beautiful and cruel. She is the one who drives the men crazy and laughs them all away. Her power is her own. She will not give it away. I have begun my own quiet war. Simple. Sure. I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate.

Author’s Purpose

What does Cisneros want us to know about or do?

Theme

What’s the moral or life lesson of this story?

Bums in the AtticAnnotate for • Author’s Purpose • Theme (lesson or moral in the story)• Simile• Imagery (multiple)• Personification Write margin notes all over the story!• Where do the rich live?• Where do the poor live?• Why do the rich sometimes look down?• What worries poor people but not rich people?• What does Cisneros want?• But how will she be different from the rich people?• What will she actually do to be different?• Why does she want to be different from the rich people?

Bums in the Attic by Sandra Cisneros (from The House on Mango Street)

I want a house on a hill like the ones with the gardens where Papa works. We go on Sundays, Papa's day off. I used to go. I don't anymore. You don't like to go out with us, Papa says. Getting too old? Getting too stuck-up, says Nenny. I don't tell them I am ashamed—all of us staring out the window like the hungry. I am tired of looking at what we can't have. When we win the lottery . . . Mama begins, and then I stop listening. People who live on hills sleep so close to the stars they forget those of us who live too much on earth. They don't look down at all except to be content to live on hills. They have nothing to do with last week's garbage or fear of rats. Night comes. Nothing wakes them but the wind. One day I'll own my own house, but I won't forget who I am or where I came from. Passing bums will ask, Can I come in? I'll offer them the attic, ask them to stay, because I know how it is to be without a house.

Some days after dinner, guests and I will sit in front of a fire. Floorboards will squeak upstairs. The attic grumble. Rats? they'll ask. Bums, I'll say, and I'll be happy.

Text Types and Writer’s Craft (ADD TO PG 7 of your Comp Book and your TOC)

Nonfiction Informative Nonfiction Persuasive

Nonfiction Narrative Fiction

Text Types and Writer’s Craft (ADD TO PG 7 of your Comp Book)

Nonfiction Informative Nonfiction Persuasive

Nonfiction Narrative Fiction• Imagery, metaphors, similes• Diction• Characterization• Conflict, Turning point, Rising/Falling Action• Historical Info• Symbolism• Irony• Personification• Foreshadowing / Flashback

Text Types and Writer’s Craft (ADD TO PG 7 of your Comp Book)

Nonfiction Informative• Facts• Statistics• Personal exp• Historical info• Expert Commentary• Diction• Logical Order

Nonfiction Persuasive• Persuasive language• Personal exp• Facts• Statistics• argument• Call to action• Diction• Expert Opinion• Imagery, metaphors, similes• Irony• Logical Order

Nonfiction Narrative• Characterization• Personal exp• Historical info• Imagery, metaphors, similes• Diction• Logical Order

Fiction• Imagery, metaphors, similes• Diction• Characterization• Conflict, Turning point, Rising/Falling Action• Historical Info• Symbolism• Irony• Personification• Foreshadowing / Flashback

RAPT Writing PracticeWhenever you speak or write, assume your audience doesn’t have a clue what you are talking/writing about.

R If you don’t restate the question somewhere in your response, your audience will spend most of their time trying to figure out what you’re talking/writing about.

A If you don’t answer in detail, they will only get a superficial (fluffy) idea of what you’re thinking.

P If you don’t use an example or evidence, they will think you don’t really have any proof to back up your idea.

T If you don’t thoroughly explain your proof, they will wonder whether it really proves what you’re saying or whether you just threw something out there hoping it will help prove your point.

RW Quiz 1 Answers

RW Quiz Q1-Wks 1-2 Name: Per:

1. Don’t contradict your dad if you want to stay on his good side. A / D1. A biologist decided it was a species that had never been discovered before. I1. The density of the air in a balloon has to be lower than the air around it for it to float. E1. The ravens encircled the hurt rabbit in an area enclosed by trees. H1. Our city is almost equidistant from the equator and the North Pole. G1. We could use a barometer to tell if the conditions are right for a thunderstorm. B1. The project will certainly fail if we don’t cooperate. C1. Take the anti-toxin just in case you’re allergic to the snake that bit you. A / D1. Measure the circumference of the basketball and compare it to the size of your hand. J1. A beetle’s empty exoskeleton is sometimes found hanging on a tree. F

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