Do Now: Please write your homework down! HW: achieve3000.com assignment (Expository Review “Starting a New Job”) due 7:30am the day it’s due When you are done writing down your homework, please go pick up your journal from the back if you turned it in. Because of crazy snow days, the grades notebook check will happen after the EOC.

Updates! Falcon Hall today after school is the LAST CHANCE to make up any missing assignments for break (aka bring up your grades!) The spring break online homework will count for a semester 4 grade. B-Day you have until Wednesday to finish the spring break homework online. There are extra instructions by the door. A-Day you have until Sunday at midnight to finish the spring break homework. 5A, you also have to complete the levelset test for achieve 3000. Instructions and passwords are coming around. The EOC is in 2 weeks and we are going to study non-stop until then.

Testing Strategies Read question first 2 above, 2 below Some questions you don’t even need to read the passage (specifically the writing questions) so read them first to know what to look for and where 2 above, 2 below If a question asks about a specific line from the passage, you ALWAYS need to read the 2 line above it and the 2 lines after it to get the gist of the line

Sentence Types!!! Independent clause= subject (who/what sentence is about) + verb (action) + complete thought Miss Camacho is from California. Dependent clause= subject (who/what sentence is about) + verb (action) + NO complete thought Because Miss Camacho is from California If you could put (…) at the end of the clause, it is dependent

Simple 1 independent clause Miss Camacho likes mac-n-cheese

Compound 1 independent clause + comma+ conjunction (for and nor but or yet so) + 1 independent clause California has beautiful sunsets, so Miss Camacho like to take pictures.

Complex 1 independent clause + 1 dependent clause Although Miss Camacho did not go to Disneyland over break, she flew on a plane.

Compound-Complex 2 independent clauses + 1 dependent clauses Miss Camacho got home late, although she was very tired, she stayed up late to plan for her wonderful students.

You Try! (10 min) Click on the first link titled English EOC Packet 1of1 Scroll to page 50 Using your notes, answer the questions in your notebook (just write 1. a, 2.b, etc) After 10 min, you will use the clickers to enter your answer (we hope…)

EOC Review of 9.1, 9.2, 9.5, and Fig 19b Terms to know for fiction (short stories) Theme: The moral lesson of a story Inference: An educated guess based on text evidence Direct Characterization: When the writer tells us about the character’s personality Indirect characterization: When the writer shows us about the character’s personality Tone: The “feeling” of a text Simile: comparison using like/as Climax The most suspenseful part of a story, the turning point Personification: giving animals/objects human characteristics Imply: what is suggested Connotation: The emotional connection of a word Denotation: The dictionary definition of something Flashback: When the story refers BACK to a prior event Foreshadowing: When the story hints at the future Dramatic Irony: When the audience knows something the characters don’t

Practice Passage Click on the second link titled “The Clasp” You have 10 min to read the passage and answer the multiple choice questions in your notebook We will use this passage/these questions in our stations

Stations You will have 2 stations today. One is correcting your multiple choice section and one will involve answering a SAR questions using APES. For the first 3 min of each station, I will not answer any questions, so READ THE INSTRUCTIONS! You will have 15 min at each station.

Station 1 (15 min)

Station 2 (15 min)

Independent practice (15 min) Read the story titled fiction IP and answer the multiple choice questions in your notebook. We will use the clickers again after 15 min.