February 18, 2013

Tiger Treasure Read this famous quote by Marcel Proust. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” Use a Venn Diagram to explain what is being compared and what this metaphor means.

“Worked to the Bone” Complete your Reading Response independently. When you finish, put it in the class’s box and read silently. php?video_id= php?video_id=176833

Let’s look at some awesome sentences. Analyze them—what’s the structure, figurative language, etc.? Write the sentence on your paper and then label independent clauses, adjective or adverb clauses, prepositional phrases, subjects, verbs, and figurative language.

"The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World."

Your turn! Imitate the original sentence with your own sentence about this picture. "The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World."

Gilly gave little William Ernest the most fearful face in all her collection of scary looks, a cross between Count Dracula and Godzilla. (Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins)

Your turn! Imitate the original sentence with your own sentence about this picture. Gilly gave little William Ernest the most fearful face in all her collection of scary looks, a cross between Count Dracula and Godzilla.

"If I hadn't gone outside, I don't know if I would have heard the scream."

Your turn! Imitate the original sentence with your own sentence about this picture. "If I hadn't gone outside, I don't know if I would have heard the scream."

"Stanley's father was an inventor. To be a successful inventor you need three things: intelligence, perseverance, and just a little bit of luck." Louis Sachar, Holes

Your turn! Imitate the original sentence with your own sentence about this picture. "Stanley's father was an inventor. To be a successful inventor you need three things: intelligence, perseverance, and just a little bit of luck."

Social Studies Test Review Review your vocabulary words for your test on Friday!

Vocabulary suffering from a lack of good nutrition

Vocabulary Malnourish

Vocabulary a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.

Vocabulary Tenement

Vocabulary a period of social activism and political reform in the US between the 1880s and about 1920 to reform education, child labor laws, and woman’s suffrage.

Vocabulary Progressive Era

Vocabulary a photographer in the early 1900s,and he used his photographs to help change the US child labor laws.

Vocabulary Lewis Hine

Vocabulary  a committee organized in 1904 in the US by socially concerned citizens and politicians to regulate child labor laws.

Vocabulary  National Child Labor Committee

Vocabulary  to control or adjust to a specific standard or rule

Vocabulary  Regulate

Vocabulary  the period between 1750 and 1850 in which changes in agriculture, transportation, manufacturing, mining and technology had a deep effect on the social, cultural and economic conditions of the times.

Vocabulary  Industrial Age

Vocabulary  a child or an adult who works in a mill to produce cotton in often unsafe and unsanitary conditions.

Vocabulary  Mill worker

Vocabulary  any place that produces a uniform product (one factory might produce parts for an airplane while another might produce towels).

Vocabulary  Factory

MCT2 Style Writing Questions Apply what you know as a good writer to these multiple choice questions. SHOW me your reasoning behind your choices. This is what you will be tested on Thursday !

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Announcements  Novel Response Due on Thursday  Multiple Choice Writing Test on Thursday  Social Studies test on Child Labor on Friday  Vocabulary quiz NEXT Monday