Monday, April 11 Do Now: SSR Homework: ✓ Vocabulary Word Study (Quiz on April 15) Objective: I can apply my knowledge of comprehension strategies, conflict, methods of characterization, mood, plot, and theme to prove my understanding of The Outsiders by creating a Google Site. I can apply my knowledge of summarizing, inferencing, context clues, testing strategies, point of view to complete success stations. Today you will need: Independent Reading Novel Reader’s AND Writer’s Notebook Pen or Pencil

Motivational Monday

Writing Response Three objects in your childhood room...The toy you most treasured... What’s stored in your closet?The next sound you hear and what caused it...

April 11: “A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags Like a heavy load. Or does it explode? Turn and Discuss

Success Stations Teacher Table- “A Pioneer Woman Looks Back” Main Idea- Point of View Practice Summary- #1-12 Summary Task Cards (record answers on answer sheet) Vocabulary- Context Clues Practice Inferencing- Inferencing with Art at Front (record answers on answer sheet)

The Outsiders - Annotations Characters – 11 characters with FULL characterization Conflict Conflict - LOTS Mood – look for shifts (SETTING the MOOD) Plot Plot – Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution Theme – more than one? Vocabulary – highlight and annotate SHORT definition once found

Chapter 1: Things To Look For... Vocabulary: Asset- Pg. 3 Madras- Pg. 5 Irresistibly- Pg. 10 Unfathomable- Pg.10 Lynx- Pg. 10 Nape- Pg. 10 Rumble- Pg. 11 Tough v. Tuff- Pg. 12 Character Description: Age Physical Description (References to their eyes) Personality TraitsPlot: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, ResolutionConflicts: What conflicts are introduced in this chapter? Who is involved and what are the conflicts about?

Tuesday, April 12 Do Now: SSR Homework: ✓ Vocabulary Word Study (Quiz on April 15) Today you will need: Independent Reading Novel Reader’s AND Writer’s Notebook Pen or Pencil Objective: I can apply my knowledge of comprehension strategies, conflict, methods of characterization, mood, plot, and theme to prove my understanding of The Outsiders by creating a Google Site. I can apply my knowledge of summarizing, inferencing, context clues, testing strategies, point of view to complete success stations.

Tricky Tuesday Write two riddles using your Unit 14 vocabulary words!

April 12: “Invitation by Shel Silverstein If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hop-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer, If you’re a pretender, come sit by my fire For we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in!

Success Stations Teacher Table- “A Pioneer Woman Looks Back” Main Idea- Point of View Practice Summary- #1-12 Summary Task Cards (record answers on answer sheet) Vocabulary- Context Clues Practice Inferencing- Inferencing with Art at Front (record answers on answer sheet)

Wednesday, April 13 Do Now: SSR Objective: I can apply my knowledge of comprehension strategies, conflict, methods of characterization, mood, plot, and theme to prove my understanding of The Outsiders by creating a Google Site. I can apply my knowledge of summarizing, inferencing, context clues, testing strategies, point of view to complete success stations. Today you will need: Independent Reading Novel Reader’s AND Writer’s Notebook Pen or Pencil Homework: ✓ Vocabulary Word Study (Quiz on April 15)

Wicked Word Wednesday Share your riddles with someone in the room! Study your Unit 14 Vocabulary Words! Quizlet on my site! 10 Minutes!

Writing Response What your desk thinks about at night...

Is poetry only written? ▪ Poetry is essentially just the author’s expression of thoughts and emotions in a written form….what about if they choose movement? Lyrical Hip-hop Contemporary

Success Stations Teacher Table- “A Pioneer Woman Looks Back” Main Idea- Point of View Practice Summary- #1-12 Summary Task Cards (record answers on answer sheet) Vocabulary- Context Clues Practice Inferencing- Inferencing with Art at Front (record answers on answer sheet)

Chapter 2: Things To Look For... Vocabulary: Briskly- Pg. 23 Incredulous- Pg. 24 Nonchalantly- Pg. 25 Shanghai- Pg. 28 Feud- Pg. 29 High-Strung- Pg. 33 Law-Abiding- Pg. 34 Character Description: Age Physical Description Personality TraitsPlot: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution Compare and Contrast AND Conflict: Turf (Where they live and hang out) Social Class (rich, middle class, or poor) Clothing, haristyle, cars, behavior, attitude

Thursday, April 14 Do Now: SSR Today you will need: Independent Reading Novel Reader’s AND Writer’s Notebook Pen or Pencil Homework: ✓ Vocabulary Word Study (Quiz on April 15) Objective: I can apply my knowledge of comprehension strategies, conflict, methods of characterization, mood, plot, and theme to prove my understanding of The Outsiders by creating a Google Site. I can apply my knowledge of summarizing, inferencing, context clues, testing strategies, point of view to complete success stations.

Tipster Thursday Write THREE tips and tricks forming your Google Site project!

Writing Response Write an anonymous letterto a stranger detailing the things you’ve learned about life so far.

April 18: “You Can’t Write a Poem About McDonald’s” by Richard Wallace Noon. Hunger is the only thing singing in my belly. I walk through the blossoming cherry trees on the library mall, past the young couples coupling, by the crazy fanatic screaming doom and salvation at a sensation-hungry crowd, to the Lake Street McDonald’s. It is crowded, the lines long and sluggish. I wait in the greasy air. All around me people are eating – the sizzle of conversation, the salty odor of sweat, the warm flesh pressing out of hip huggers and halter tops. When I finally reach the cash register, the counter girl is crisp as a pickle, her fingers thin as French fries, her face brown as a bun. Suddenly I understand cannibalism. As I reach for her, she breaks into pieces wrapped neat and packaged for take-out. I’m thinking, how amazing it is to live in this country, how easy it is to be filled. We leave together, her warm aroma close at my side. I walk back through the cherry trees blossoming up into pies, the young couple frying in the hot, oily sun, the crowd eating up the fanatic, singing, my ear, my eye, my tongue fat with the wonder of this hungry world. -Richard Wallace

Something you might try as a poet is a free-verse description of your own outrageous poetic topics. If someone can write a poem about McDonald‟s, what are other unlikely—and funny—subjects for viewing through the eyes of a poet?

Success Stations Teacher Table- “A Pioneer Woman Looks Back” Main Idea- Point of View Practice Summary- #1-12 Summary Task Cards (record answers on answer sheet) Vocabulary- Context Clues Practice Inferencing- Inferencing with Art at Front (record answers on answer sheet)

Chapter 3 and 4: Things To Look For... Vocabulary: Gallantly- pg. 37 Bluff- Pg. 54 Unceasingly- Pg. 56 Apprehensive- Pg. 59 Towheaded- Pg. 59 Contemptuously- Pg. 59Mood: Setting the MoodConflict: How does Ch. 3 create suspense regarding the two conflicts introduced in Ch. 1? How does Hinton tie the two conflicts in the book together in Ch. 4? Compare and Contrast: According to Cherry, what makes the Socs different from the Greasers?Plot: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution

Friday, April 15 Do Now: SSR Homework: ✓ Enjoy your weekend (Quiz on April 15) Objective: I can apply my knowledge of comprehension strategies, conflict, methods of characterization, mood, plot, and theme to prove my understanding of The Outsiders by creating a Google Site. I can apply my knowledge of summarizing, inferencing, context clues, testing strategies, point of view to complete success stations. Today you will need: Independent Reading Novel Reader’s AND Writer’s Notebook Pen or Pencil

Writing Response Ten years from now, you meet up with an old friend you haven’t seen in a decade. Write the conversation you have.

April 15: “Strange Fruit” by Abel Meeropol Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of the gallant south, The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh, Then the sudden smell of burning flesh. Here is the fruit for the crows to pluck, For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop, Here is a strange and bitter crop. -Abel Meeropol -Sung by Billy Holiday -The Hanging Tree by Jennifer Lawrence

Success Stations Teacher Table- “A Pioneer Woman Looks Back” Main Idea- Point of View Practice Summary- #1-12 Summary Task Cards (record answers on answer sheet) Vocabulary- Context Clues Practice Inferencing- Inferencing with Art at Front (record answers on answer sheet)

Unit 14 Vocabulary Quiz

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Reread, annotate, and paraphrase the poem! Think about the following: Line 1- How can green be gold? Think about how a plant looks when it is first blooming. Before the leaves become a deep green, what color are they? Line 2- What does hue mean? Line 3- How can a leaf be a flower? Line 4- Did Frost actually time how long that early leaf lasts? NO, so what do you think he means by “only so an hour”? Line 5- What does subsides mean? Line 6- What do you think “sank to grief” means? Line 7- People usually think of dawn or sunrise as something coming up. Why do you think Frost uses the phrase “does down to day”? Line 8- Put the last line into your own words. Nothing Gold Can Stay

P = PARAPHRASE (LITERAL MEANING) ✕ Nature's first green is gold, = nature in spring gives the brightest green (almost a golden color) ✕ Her hardest hue (color) to hold. = this green doesn’t stay green for long ✕ Her early leafs a flower; = spring gives us flowers first ✕ But only so an hour. = but not for very long

PARAPHRASE, CONT’D. ✕ Then leaf subsides to leaf. = new, young leaves versus older leaves ✕ So Eden sank to grief, = just like Eden was overcome with sadness ✕ So dawn goes down to day. = just like the sunrise merely becomes a day ✕ Nothing gold can stay. = nothing lasts forever

Answer the critical thinking questions on your paper in complete sentences. Nothing Gold Can Stay