1. Happy Monday! Please do the following for Bell Work 4
Copy the sentences below.
Underline all of the VERBS twice in each sentence (be sure to include HV)
The costumes have not yet arrived.
Must you do your homework now?
Did Carl hit the ball over the fence?

2. Happy Monday! Please do the following for Bell Work 4
Please answer the following in the “GRAMMAR SHOTS” portion of your WNB:
Happy Monday! Please do the following for Bell Work 4
Copy the sentences below.
Underline all of the VERBS twice in each sentence (be sure to include HV)
The costumes have not yet arrived.
Must you do your homework now?
Did Carl hit the ball over the fence?

3. Vocabulary 1:3

4. “TMDG” Partner Project
Setting: Map of the Island
Character Portraits
Conflict Chart
Plot Chart

6. Happy Tuesday! Please do the following for Bell Work 4
Underline the SUBJECT once
and the VERB twice
The wind had been blowing.
The students were studying.
The cat was meowing.
What or whom the sentence in about
Subject:

7. Basic Sentence Diagram
Underline the SUBJECT once
and the VERB twice
The wind had been blowing.
The students were studying.
The cat was meowing.
Wind had been blowing
(subject) (verb)

8. Quick Quiz #1 Have out a pen/cil Your notes are fair game!
Flip over when done & read silently

9. Figurative Language Devices
Simile
Definition:
A comparison using “like” or “as”
Examples :
After winning the game, the pitcher felt as light as a feather.
Like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives.

10. Figurative Language Devices
Metaphor
Definition:
A direct comparison between two seemingly unlike things.
Example:
The sky is a blanket of stars.

11. Figurative Language Devices
Personification
Definition:
Giving human qualities to non-human things
Example:
The blades of grass danced in the wind.
The guitar sung a love song.

12. Figurative Language Devices
Imagery
Definition:
Descriptive words and phrases that paint a picture in your mind; uses the 5 senses
Example:
Crashing and splashing over the jagged mountain cliffs, the blue cascade of water dominated the landscape.

13. More Literary Devices…
Symbol:
Def: something that stands for something else.
Motif:
Def: Reoccurring patterns of elements.

14. More Literary Devices…
Denotation:
Def: the dictionary definition of a word
Connotation:
Def: what a word suggests beyond its literal meaning.
CRUSTY
Denotation: a hard outer covering
Connotation: something that is dumb, not cool, ugly…

15. Identify: Similes Metaphors
All right stop collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention Something grabs a hold of me tightly Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly Will it ever stop yo I don’t know Turn off the lights and I’ll glow To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle Dance go rush to the speaker that booms
I’m killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom
Deadly when I play a dope melody Anything less than the best is a felony Love it or leave it you better gain weight You better hit bull’s eye the kid don’t play If there was a problem yo I’ll solve it Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it
(Mr. Baker…
In his younger years)

16. Identify: Similes Metaphors
All right stop collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention Something grabs a hold of me tightly Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly Will it ever stop yo I don’t know Turn off the lights and I’ll glow To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle Dance go rush to the speaker that booms
I’m killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom
Deadly when I play a dope melody Anything less than the best is a felony Love it or leave it you better gain weight You better hit bull’s eye the kid don’t play If there was a problem yo I’ll solve it Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it
(Mr. Baker…
In his younger years)

17. = LOVE

18. Exit Ticket: Complete the following SIMILE:
“I’m ___________ your _________ like a
(verb) (noun)
__________________.”
(Noun of comparison)

19. Happy Wednesday! Please do the following for Bell Work 4
Q1: Define SYMBOL. Q2: What is the difference between DENOTATION and CONNOTATION?

20. Denotation vs. Connotation
Word
Denotation
Connotation
Brother
Heart
Red
Rain
South

21. Symbols Love Hate Peace America Poison Friend Music Happiness School
Word
Symbolic Meaning/Visual
Love
Hate
Peace
America
Poison
Friend
Music
Happiness
School

22. “The Scarlet Ibis”

23. “The Scarlet Ibis”
Watch
Make a prediction

24. Big Q: Why do they have to die?
“The Scarlet Ibis”
Big Q: Why do they have to die?
Day 1:
1st: Underline FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
3rd: Highlight in pink/green SETTING
4th: Highlight in yellow MOTIF
Author’s Purpose
Day 2:
3rd: Underline FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
4th: Highlight in pink/green SETTING
1st: Highlight in yellow MOTIF

25. Happy Thursday! Please do the following on your BW 4 paper:
From the words listed below, craft a paragraph that predicts the ending of “The Scarlet Ibis”. Word Bank Red Rain Cruelty Tired Bird Swamp Bad luck Doodle Brother

26. Big Q: Why do they have to die?
“The Scarlet Ibis”
Big Q: Why do they have to die?
Day 1:
1st: Underline FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
3rd: Highlight in pink/green SETTING
4th: Highlight in yellow MOTIF
Author’s Purpose
Day 2:
3rd: Underline FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
4th: Highlight in pink/green SETTING
1st: Highlight in yellow MOTIF