4 Nov 2015 BELL ACTIVITY: Staple your spelling work together. Review your words briefly DETERMINE HOW MUCH OF THE SPELLING PRACTICE YOU COMPLETED. REVIEW YOUR SPELLING WORDS ONE LAST TIME ASSESS YOUR ABILITY TO SPELL THE WORDS FROM UNIT #20. LEARN MORE ABOUT BRADY & BRADY’S FAMILY LEARN OF POSSIBLE THEME STATEMENTS IN THE NOVEL TODAY WE WILL…

LIBRARY DAY! LIBRARY GOALS: Make sure you have your books and make sure when we return from the Library that you have a book to read. RETURN OR RENEW, read Find, CHECKOUT & READ Be a Library Ninja – silent & inconspicuous TRANSPORT GOAL: CONTROL YOUR IMPULSES TO TALK, POKE, TOUCH, ETC.

TRANSITION PAGE YOU WILL NEED YOUR COPY OF RED KAYAK A PEN ALL YOUR RED KAYAK NOTES & YOUR GLOSSARY. YOU WILL ALSO NEED A BLANK SHEET OF LINED PAPER. At the top of your blank sheet of paper write: Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings Chapter Notes 4 NOV 2015 RK Chapter 9 pg 54

You will be using your own paper to take notes on chapters Chapter 9 – pg 54. p.54-L.14 - I HOPED… CHARACTERIZATION NOTES: p.55-L.19 – I knew… “I hoped Dad would sit on the end of my bed and stay because I wanted to tell him how twisted up I felt inside” (Cummings 54). “ I knew Dad hated to talk about feelings and stuff like that. It’s one reason my mother left for such a long time after Amanda died. Leastways that’s what I heard her tell Grandma once on the telephone. ‘You know Tom, I can’t tell him how I feel about anything…’” (Cummings 55). p.56-L.25 - BUTTERFLY… p. 57 Story of Amanda P. 59 L.3-4 Brady skips school to talk p. 61 Brady dumps the 5 hours worth of crabs

You will be using your own paper to take notes on Chapters Chapter 10 – pg 62. CHARACTERIZATION NOTES: P. 63 L 4-6 “What I did affected the whole family” (Cummings 63). CARL: 65 L. 2-3 p. 64 L p. 68 J.T. lies about going to North Carolina over spring break because he doesn’t want Brady to come over. “You need to talk it out-people have these feelings, you know. You need to talk it out and put it behind you so you can move forward” (Cummings 64).

Use this time to go back and fill in your notes from Chapter 9 & 10. Make sure the quotes you transcribe are sufficient. If you just copy down a quote you hope will be “just enough” you will be hurting yourself in the end. Find those quotes that fully explain. Imagine yourself using the quote to answer a question about the novel to someone who has NOT read it.