1. Warmup:
Grab your binders and a piece of warm up paper. Respond to the following prompt with 5 complete sentences:
“Think of a time when someone in authority set a very high goal for you. Perhaps a coach expected you to be the team’s top scorer, or a parent expected you to get straight A’s. How did you respond to these expectations? Were you motivated to work harder? Did you inwardly rebel?”

2. Warmup:
Grab a piece of warm up paper and respond to the following prompt with 5 complete sentences:
“This will be my first time teaching your class! Tell me about yourself (activities, hobbies, interests) and anything you think I should know as your teacher (this can be about yourself or about the class as a whole)”
If you finish, read Lord of the Flies

3. Colons and Semicolons
What are some punctuation marks that we already know and use?
How/when do we use them?

4. Colons and Semicolons
Just like word choice, our choice of punctuation impacts how readers decipher our message.
We now will have two new “tools” to help us
The colon :
The Semicolon ;

5. Two Kinds
Read the two sentences from “Two Kinds” with your elbow partner and try to replace the colon and the semicolon with:
A comma
A period
A question mark
An exclamation point.
Which one worked?

6. The Colon The Colon can take the place of commas.
We normally use them before we:
Explain something
List a few things
Talk about a collection

7. The Semicolon The semicolon can replace a period. We use them when we:
Have TWO COMPLETE sentences
These two sentences are closely related
Want to show the close relation

8. Two Kinds Continue to read “Two Kinds”
Starts on page 474
Remember to answer the reading guide
This is the “heavy lifting” before we answer our LEQ
“How do authors create different characters to serve the story and its purpose?”

9. Character Profiling
Open up to your “Two Kinds” character graphic organizer.
We need to analyze the characters a little more.

10. Character Creative Writing 2
Your task:
Freewrite (write the entire amount of time) in response to the following prompt:
“Think about your character’s goal in life. What is your character’s motivation for that goal? What is the driving force that makes your character chase that dream?”

11. Exit: Draw a line under where you finished writing.
Exchange papers with your elbow partner.
Read through your partner’s story and under the line rewrite two sentences so that the writing includes:
One colon
One Semicolon
Make sure both your names are on the paper, this will be collected.

12. Your task: Exit: 3/8 Reread lines 70-90.
Find a passage where a semicolon can be used
Find a passage where a colon can be used
Write the original passage and your revision
Explain why you made this revision
When you’re done, bring it up to me and read Lord of the Flies.