7-1-2010

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Students will:

 * ===connect themes from non-fiction to themes from fiction.===
 * ===review verbs -- transitive, intransitive, linking, and helping verbs.===
 * ===monitor comprehension while reading.===
 * ===learn to identify and create similes.===

**Homework:**
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 * Finish your simile report.
 * Mr. Devine is checking all today's work tomorrow.

Reminders:

 * ** Checking homework today: **
 * ** See the list on the white board. **
 * ** Summer School Planner (Due Each Friday) **
 * ** [|summer school planner 2010.pdf] **

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__Agenda__

 * Grammar Practice: Verbs**
 * On page 55-56 of the Grammar Workbook, identify the verb and then label it as Transitive or Intransitive.
 * Show the Workbook on the ELMO.


 * Before Reading "Before the End of Summer"**
 * Together, read "Build Background" on page 24.
 * [|Sharecroppers.doc]
 * Read the article in groups of 3 to 4. Summarize each paragraph.
 * YouTube video on Sharecropping
 * Stop and explain as video plays.


 * Writing Section: Quick Write -- Sharecropping**
 * Now that you have read an article and watched a video about sharecropping, answer the following questions:
 * What was life for sharecroppers?
 * Why were so many sharecroppers poor?


 * Grammar and Writing: Verbs**
 * [|Identifying Helping Verbs]
 * Create 10 sentences using helping verbs.


 * Grammar and Composition Handbook**
 * Complete: in groups of 3 to 4.
 * 1-10 page 107
 * Find each verb--many have more than one verb.
 * Review as a class.

"With few jobs available in the small towns, most rural blacks were forced to make whatever arrangements they could with the remaining white landowners. Sharecropping – in which blacks were provided with credit for tools, seeds, living quarters, and food in return for a share of the crops raised on another's land – became the means of subsistence and the way of life, just as it was for many poor whites who had lost their land." -- America.gov
 * Reading Section: Begin Reading, "Before the End of Summer" pages 25-37**
 * Review "Build Background"
 * Read the following quotation from America.gov:
 * Take your SFV out to reference while we read.
 * Stop to write summary sentences, Cornell Style, as we read.
 * Identify the page number and the paragraph number on the left.
 * Write a summary sentence or two on the left.


 * Writing Section: Simile Report**
 * Find 2 similes from the part of the story we have read so far.
 * Explain simile.
 * Copy the similes on the left side of your Cornell Notes.
 * Answer the following questions about each simile on the right side of your notes:
 * What is the simile describing?
 * Explain the description--what does it mean?
 * Write a simile of your own to describe one of the following:
 * The lives if sharecroppers.
 * One of the characters in "Before the End of Summer"
 * Write your simile on the left side of your notes.
 * Explain your simile on the right side of your notes.
 * Draw a picture or find a picture and put it in your notes to show one of the similes in your report.


 * Continue reading the story if time permits.**