1. Welcome to Mr. Rushing’s Reading and Writing Course
Prompt:
What keeps you reading?

2. 9/09/16 We Will I Will Explore poetry
Know how to recognize figurative language in poetry

3. Homework: Add to your agenda
20 minutes reading tonight
Add to My Status in your 40 Book Challenge Folder
7 total entries in “Status for the Class” will be due on Friday

4. Horrible Joke of the day
Why shouldn’t you write with a broken pencil?

5. Horrible Joke of the day
Why shouldn’t you write with a broken pencil?
Because it’s pointless!

6. Dobbs jobs 6th Grade CLASS JOBS
KBUZZ – if you applied already that is your first choice
6th Grade
MARK OUT – Green team; Science Lab; Breakfast Leaders; Lost and Found; Birthday Team;
Artists – creating student of the week bulletin boards
Academic Vocabulary Poster Team – posts words weekly
LIGHTHOUSE TEAM – Morning Duty and meetings
FLAG LEADERS – due by Wednesday
Geek Squad – cares for iPads
BREAKFAST CLUB – need to apply even if you’re doing it already
Accountant – Great at math! Helps Mrs. Porter
Grounds Crew – pics up around our buildings
GREETERS – 7:30 AM everyday
COMPUTERS – 7:25AM; After Rock
CLASS JOBS
ENVIRONMENT LEADERS – school wide; for special events
Thursday Folders, Attendance, Board Specialist, Greeter, Computer Specialist, Gopher, Energy Specialist, Materials Manager, Patriotic Leader
JOURNALISM – Yearbook and school wide newsletter
EQUIPMENT LEADER – 7:30 am help Coach Haley
OFFICE LEADER – During Flextime
ART LEADERSHIP – Help Mrs. Gates 7:30 am

7. ACADEMIC VOCABULARY LOG
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of imagery, and literary devices such as simile, metaphor, personification, etc.
SIMILE
Comparing two things using “like” or “as”
METAPHOR
Comparing two things NOT using “like” or “as”

9. METAPHOR

10. Short answer questions and the “ACE” strategy
Let’s take Cornell Notes over the following video

11. Inferencing – “THE RED GUARDS” p. 276
Short Answer Question
Answer in half a page. Have a clear topic sentence. Include textual evidence.
The lives of Ji-li Jiang and her family have changed because of the Cultural Revolution. What personal rights and freedoms have they lost?