Learning Target: I can recognize explicit information. Do Now: What is the difference between something that is implicit vs. something that is explicit? Explain. Have your parent letter slip out and ready to be collected if you did not submit it on Friday.

What is the difference between something that is implicit vs What is the difference between something that is implicit vs. something that is explicit? Explain. Implicit – something that is implied but not clearly stated in a text Explicit – stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt

Is this implicit or explicit? It was a dark and stormy night. EXPLICIT! This sentences does not imply anything. It presents an explicit description of the weather outside.

Is this implicit or explicit? Even though we haven’t gotten it back yet, I’m not looking forward to Mr. Neiro posting that quiz grade on TeacherEase. IMPLICIT! This sentence implies that the speaker found the quiz difficult, and is anticipating a poor grade on the quiz. We know it’s implicit because this is never stated directly, just hinted.

Let’s try together. After the day I had at school, I need to just relax and unwind. IMPLICIT! This sentence implies that the speaker had a difficult, stressful or tiring day at school. We know it’s implicit because it is only implied that he or she had a bad day – but, we don’t know what actually happened or why.

Let’s try together. I am in a bad mood because I want some time to myself, but nobody is giving me any personal space. EXPLICIT! This sentence leaves nothing to the imagination. We know it’s explicit because it does not imply or hint at anything – it is straightforward and tells us what’s going on.

EXPLICIT OR IMPLICIT?

If you’re not busy tonight, do you want to hang out? Are you busy tonight? IMPLICIT! If you’re not busy tonight, do you want to hang out?

Believe me, you do not want to see that movie. IMPLICIT! That movie is really boring, and you won’t like it.

I believe that giving students timed tests is unfair. I do not think that students should be required to take the writing proficiency exam, because it is a timed test and some students do not do well on timed tests. Testing students’ knowledge won’t be accurate if their grades are lower just because they ran out of time. EXPLICIT! I believe that giving students timed tests is unfair.

I’m disappointed that I’m not in Ms. Villmann’s class this year. IMPLICIT! I have heard from my friends that Ms. Villmann is a great teacher.

School uniforms will save parents a lot of money. School uniforms will save parents a lot of money, because they will only have to spend money on the uniforms themselves, instead of spending a fortune on clothes for school. EXPLICIT! School uniforms will save parents a lot of money.

At first, when the immigrants left their homeland, they felt out of place. IMPLICIT! The immigrants were not familiar at first with their new surroundings, so they felt lonely and uncomfortable at first.

The trees were swaying wildly outside Anne's window as she prepared for bed, and the gutters were overflowing. IMPLICIT! A thunderstorm was happening outside as Anne got ready for bed, and it was raining heavily.

Complete the worksheet on explicit writing by tomorrow, Wednesday 9/14.

Exit Ticket On the back of your index card (blank side), please do the following: Write an example of a sentence that is implicit, and an example of a sentence that is explicit.

Learning Target: I can draw inferences based on implicit information. Do Now: For each of the following, identify whether the sentence is implicit or explicit. If implicit, explain what the sentence implies. The sky was as bright and cheerful as the feeling that had come over the room. He walked with the confidence of someone who had been adored as a child. Have your homework sheets out and ready to be collected in the center of your table.

Let’s go over it. The sky was as bright and cheerful as the feeling that had come over the room. This sentence implies that something positive or worthy of being celebrated has happened in the room. He walked with the confidence of someone who had been adored as a child. This implies that the boy or man being spoken of is confident from years of feeling loved and appreciated. It also implies that the narrator is someone who did not feel adored as a child and envies this man’s confidence.

The author does everything for a reason.

801 & 802 – “A Letter to My Past” by Darren Mallett How do you like me as I am today? Twenty years young, triumphantly boasting Success through all you had been foreboding. Casting my vast nets as far as the sun While you cast your line in small empty streams, Passionately chasing visions and dreams While you bury your head in sand or run. Do you still see no hope for my future? See the wounds you thought I couldn't suture? In my past I was but a ball of clay. Shaped by your hands and your verbal roastings; Scarred by abuse and spiteful goading. I'm still not the one who mocks or makes fun. I still don't pick guys last for my sports teams, Because I know what hardship and hurt means; How it feels to wish tomorrow won’t come. Here I stand, the scar-ridden suitor In full war paint, looking back with humor.

Let’s get into a circle.

808 – “On Turning Ten” by Billy Collins But now I am mostly at the window watching the late afternoon light. Back then it never fell so solemnly against the side of my tree house, and my bicycle never leaned against the garage as it does today, all the dark blue speed drained out of it. This is the beginning of sadness, I say to myself, as I walk through the universe in my sneakers. It is time to say good-bye to my imaginary friends, time to turn the first big number. It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I could shine. But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed. The whole idea of it makes me feel like I'm coming down with something, something worse than any stomach ache or the headaches I get from reading in bad light-- a kind of measles of the spirit, a mumps of the psyche, a disfiguring chicken pox of the soul. You tell me it is too early to be looking back, but that is because you have forgotten the perfect simplicity of being one and the beautiful complexity introduced by two. But I can lie on my bed and remember every digit. At four I was an Arabian wizard. I could make myself invisible by drinking a glass of milk a certain way. At seven I was a soldier, at nine a prince.

Let’s get into a circle.

Don’t forget – your summer reading assignment is due on Friday, September 16. Your independent reading book is also due by Friday, September 16.

Learning Target: I can draw inferences based on implicit information. Do Now: For each of the following sentences, identify whether it is implicit or explicit. If implicit, explain what the sentence implies. If explicit, explain how you came to this conclusion. If you do not submit your homework on the day it is due, it will be marked late. It’s too bad that your hair is not as thick and voluminous as your brother’s hair.

Let’s go over it. If you do not submit your homework on the day it is due, it will be marked late. This sentence is explicit - it is clearly stated and leaves no room for doubt or the imagination. It’s too bad that your hair is not as thick and voluminous as your brother’s hair. This sentence is implicit – the narrator is implying that the person he or she is speaking to does not have thick hair, in this narrator’s opinion.

Routine #1

Write an objective summary of what you have read so far in the text “Poison” by Roald Dahl. Summer reading assignment due on Friday, September 16; independent reading novel due Friday, September 16.

Learning Target: I can cite strong textual evidence to support explicit and implicit information through quotes and examples. Do Now: Take out your homework (objective summary of what you have read so far in “Poison”).

Summer reading assignment due on Friday, September 16; independent reading novel due Friday, September 16.