Grammar Review/The Book of Qualities

AGENDA:

1.  Grammar Review for in-class Midterm on Wednesday and Friday next week (Monday is MLK day, no school)

SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT--nouns (pronouns) and verbs
http://www.time4writing.com/writing-mechanics/subject-verb-agreement/

2. Reading and discussion: BOOK OF QUALITIES
Read aloud more MODEL (EXEMPLAR) passages from the book in your reading groups.
   a. Each person should read aloud one passage in your group
   b. Fill out the graphic organizer about the character you read.   Be sure to put your name on your  
       paper.
    c. Discussion: 
What strategies and details does Ruth Gendler use to make her characters come alive?  Why are ADJECTIVES and SPECIFIC NOUNS so important in painting a picture for the reader? Discuss characterization through descriptive details, figurative language (metaphors, imagery and similes), and anecdotes (short little narrative stories).
What strategies can you use in your own writing?

3.  Creative Writing:  Work on your own personification "vignettes"

4. ALL  RATTLEBONE STUDY GUIDES are due on FRIDAY! Work on these as well.  We will discuss the book as a whole on Friday (that gives you extra time to finish reading and finish your study guide)

Grammar Review/Rattlebone/The Qualities

AGENDA:

1. Go over Grammar Review

2.New Writing Project:

The Qualities

Create two "quality" personifications similar to the ones that Ruth Gendler has written.
Select an emotion and give it the qualities of a human being--personification!  How does this emotion act, "feel", live?  Who are friends of this emotion?  What does this emotion look like physically (if he or she were a person)?  Use vivid DESCRIPTION to PERSONIFY this emotion.

Those of you who would like to can also draw a picture of your "character" and we will try to publish a class book of "The Qualities" at the end of the marking period


3.   Finish study guide for Rattlebone for credit!

4. SOKOL entries: 
Select a poem and/or short story for SOKOL.  Before you submit it, proofread and revise it!  Check with Ms. Gamzon if you have questions.

Grammar Review/Rattlebone "The Creation"/SOKOL

AGENDA:
Welcome back!


1. Let's do a Grammar Review of Parts of Speech (15 minutes)--do Activity #23

2. "The Creation" --listen to the poem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQJU4HmE1HQ 



 
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
 

Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) (USSC+)

 

 

347 U.S. 483
Argued December 9, 1952
Reargued December 8, 1953
Decided May 17, 1954
APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS*
 
Syllabus Segregation of white and Negro children in the public schools of a State solely on the basis of race, pursuant to state laws permitting or requiring such segregation, denies to Negro children the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment -- even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors of white and Negro schools may be equal.
(a) The history of the Fourteenth Amendment is inconclusive as to its intended effect on public education.
(b) The question presented in these cases must be determined not on the basis of conditions existing when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, but in the light of the full development of public education and its present place in American life throughout the Nation.
(c) Where a State has undertaken to provide an opportunity for an education in its public schools, such an opportunity is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.
(d) Segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race deprives children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal.
(e) The "separate but equal" doctrine adopted in Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, has no place in the field of public education.
(f) The cases are restored to the docket for further argument on specified questions relating to the forms of the decrees.



Read the story pg. 146-147, 150-152, 158-160, 169-171

SOKOL:

http://www3.libraryweb.org/central.aspx?id=1258