Warm Up 4/13/12

Review your four vocabulary words from the last classes and then write a sentence for each one. 1. principle 2. credible 3. catalog 4. perpetual 5. loquacious

1. Find a partner2. Assign partner A and B

*Partner A is the tallest

3. Partner A shares: My favorite sentence that I wrote is…4. Partner b responds: Great sentence. My favorite sentence that I wrote

is…5. Find a new partner6. Assign partner a and b

*Partner A is the shortest

7. Partner A shares: The sentence that I struggled with was…8. Partner b responds: Good job. The sentence I struggled with was…9. Work with your partner to correct your sentence if needed

Warm Up Sharing

Add to your Frayer models:

sequence

New Vocab. Word

Stories and notesReview

Before we went on break we listened to this story and you took some notes… take those out.

With a partner discuss: What and who was this story about? What happened in this story?

Duncan, Junior

The first day back you read another story and took some notes… get those out.

With a partner review: Who and what was this story about? What happened in this story?

The No-Guitar Blues

You will take a short quiz on these two stories. You may not use your note and you may not work with a partner. Do the best you can. You will get the opportunity to correct your wrong answers.

Story Quiz

New Stories and Thinking Maps

Next Up

Remember the Circle Map?

Who/What: Your topic

Descriptions of your topic

Frame of Reference: Where did this info. come from and why is it important?

New Map: the Flow MapThis helps us remember a sequence of events. What happened first, second, third, all the way to the end.

Let’s try with a story everyone knows: Mrs. Merki-Castro and the 3 Bears! Who is this story about?

Circle map What happens in this story

Flow map

Practice

Think of a story that you know very well. It can be a made up story or something that actually happened. Create a flow map for this story on your own and then we will share our stories.

And once again…