House on Mango Street

The First Part Last Closure

AGENDA:

Quiz on The First Part Last

WRITING:  Work on the First Part Last Project
Finish Partner Story

The First Part Last

AGENDA:

WRITING ACTIVITY:  Working with your partner, combine your BEGINNING and ENDING stories with a MIDDLE..

PERIOD 4:  continue working on your FIRST PART LAST PROJECT

HMWK:  Be sure you have finished the book for a quiz on TUESDAY!
Have a great weekend!

First Part Last Projects

AGENDA:

BELL WORK:
Conjunctions and Interjections
We're almost there! Eight parts of speech.  7 down.  1 to go!

ACTIVITIES:
Begin work on First Part Last projects.

Angela Johnson Links

Link to Angela Johnson:

http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Angela-Johnson/1263944 

http://www.ohiochannel.org/MediaLibrary/Media.aspx?fileId=126267 

http://www.ajohnsonauthor.com/


http://www.teachingbooks.net/slideshows/johnson/Reads_FirstPartLast.html



http://thebrownbookshelf.com/2009/02/08/angela-johnson/

FIRST PART LAST PROJECTS

AGENDA:

BELL WORK:  PREPOSITIONS

DISCUSSION: FIRST PART LAST

Work with Think, Pair, Share partners to answer Questions for Part 3 & 4 from previous posts.

WRITING PROJECTS:

Verbal/ Linguistic



Write at least five letters to Nia explaining what is happening with both Bobby and Feather in Bobby's voice. Be specific!



or



Study the spare, lyrical writing of Angela Johnson and try to write a story with a similar quality and the same economy of words or a sense of NOW/THEN.

Creative Project:
Create a movie trailer for the book using Moviemaker or Adobe Premiere.

I Used to Be Poem

Write an Instant "I Used To..." Poem
Method:	Line   1 I used to Line   2 But now I Line   3 I always Line   4 But I never Line   5  I once Line   6 But now I Line   7 If I could Line   8  I would Line   9  I never Line 10 But I might Line 11 I can't Line 12 But I can Line 13 I won't Line 14 But I might Line 15 I used to Line 16 But now I
Sample:	I used to think that summers stretched slow and lazy for a year But now I know better I always thought "school one year, summer one year" But I never counted off the days on my fingers I once felt hours stretch long and easy But now I hear a panicky tick-tock If I could step into a time machine I would go back and reset the clock I never gave it a thought before But I might seriously consider it now I can't turn life into a sci-fi movie But I can gobble up every day 'til I'm filled up happy I won't ever be 16 again But I might be a teenager at heart I used to think that summers stretched slow and lazy for a year But now I know better