Week 4 Tuesday

Journal What did you do over the weekend? Write four sentences. Advanced classes: write six sentences.

Text Evidence is: Text Evidence can: a specific detail a quote a summarized scene Text Evidence can: support your opinion support your argument

“You can steer yourself any direction you choose...” What is a quote? A whole sentence A piece of a sentence Pieces of several sentences “You can steer yourself any direction you choose...”

How do you cite it? Where did you get it? Who said it? The article or The webpage or The video I Am Regina or The Giver or “The Raven” Who said it? the author states the character said “the quote goes in quotation marks” Why does it matter? which means...

For example... What does Dr. Seuss suggest the reader should do when they graduate from school? In Oh, The Places You’ll Go, Dr. Seuss suggests that the reader should “get on your way,” which means they should live life with excitement and passion.

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7.R.RI.05 Reading Objective: The Highly Proficient student can evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses while articulating how a different text structure might impact the meaning of the text.   Essential Questions: 1. What are the organizational structures authors use in informational text? How are the organizational structures broken up into major parts? 2. How do these parts contribute to the overall meaning of the text? How do these parts of the structure relate to understanding of how ideas relate to each other?

Week 4 Wednesday

Journal Compassion is having sympathy and concern about the fate of others. Describe a time when you have shown compassion towards someone else. Write three sentences. Advanced classes write six sentences.

Integrating Quotes Watch this video

Practice with these: What characteristic makes some of the Sneetches feel superior to the rest of the Sneetches?

How can you tell that the Grinch is competitive?

In what ways did the main character increase the size of his business?

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7.R.RI.01 Reading Objective: The Highly Proficient student applies numerous, strong pieces of textual evidence in supporting a complex inference or analysis of the text.   Essential Questions: 1. What is strong textual evidence? How can I identify the appropriate support? 2. What is a complex inference? How can I analyze a text to find the meaning?

Week 4 Thursday

Advanced classes write six sentences. Journal Do you prefer to have logical rules and directions to follow, or the freedom to make your own choices? Why? Write four sentences. Advanced classes write six sentences.

How to Use the Ellipsis When you’re using a quote

Use an ellipsis to: Indicate words left out of a direct quotation Original quote: “It’s the unknown we fear, when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” (Rowling 163). With ellipsis: “It’s the unknown we fear … nothing more” (Rowling 163). Indicate words left off the end of a direct quotation Original quote: “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for one another” (Roth 271). With ellipsis: “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery...” (Roth 271).

Practice! Answer this question using text evidence and properly using an ellipsis, from the text at the bottom of the screen: How does Edgar Allen Poe build suspense in “The Tell-tale Heart”? Write 3+ sentences. I undid the lantern cautiously—oh, so cautiously—cautiously (for the hinges creaked)—I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye. And this I did for seven long nights—every night just at midnight— (paragraph 7)

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7.W.03 Writing Objective: The Highly Proficient student can write a narrative to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective narrative techniques.   Essential Questions: 1. What are the necessary parts of a narrative? How can these be used to convey real or imagined events? 2. What is dialogue? How can dialogue be used to personalize a character? 3. What are the five senses? How can they be used to explain the action, experiences or events in a story?

Week 4 Friday

Advanced classes write six sentences. Journal Which character from a book you have read seems to be the most similar to you? Why? Write three sentences. Advanced classes write six sentences.

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7.R.RL.01 Reading Objective: The Highly Proficient student can cite multiple examples of textual evidence to support my complex analysis and inference.   Essential Questions: 1. What is textual evidence? How can I identify the appropriate support? 2. What is a direct and indirect reference? How can I analyze a text to find the direct and indirect meaning? 3. What is a complex inference?