Language Arts - The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer Chapter 13 4/13/18

Warm-up #1, 4/13

Warm-up #2, 4/13

Vocabulary Simile: a comparison using like or as Ex: She is as pretty as a picture. Metaphor: a direct comparison that states one thing is another. It is descriptive, not literal. Ex. He is an animal on the soccer field does not mean that the boy is really an animal, but it is a metaphor for how he plays soccer.

Agenda, 4/13 Learning Target: HOTS quiz Milestone practice Warm-up – grammar HOTS Quiz (can write on quiz) Milestone practice Work independently; then class discussion Grammar packet HW – USA Test Prep. Due Friday, 4/13 (extended one day) Learning Target: HOTS quiz Milestone practice

Take notes on First person and Third person in the margin of your handout

This is the real oasis that inspired Nancy Farmer to write about the oasis that Tam Lin shows Matt in the novel. It is the Quitobaquito Oasis in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona:

This is an artist’s rendering of the Ajo Mountains.