1. Welcome! August 25th, 2017 Friday
Do Now
Get out your weekly Bell Ringer sheet and begin working on Friday’s assignment. Once the bell rings, you will have five minutes to find and label the examples of figurative language.
Remember: Do Now's are INDEPENDENT and QUIET exercises. Thank you 

2. I held his hand and hoped that he knew I was there.
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Read the paragraph below and find examples of metaphor, simile, onomatopoeia, personification, oxymoron and/or alliteration.
Like a detective, I searched the nursing home corridors until I saw him in a wheelchair by the open window. His eyes were pools of blue staring out at the first rays of sunshine tiptoeing through the garden. I brushed my fingers through his snow white hair and kissed his forehead. “Hi, Grandpa,” I said. There was a deafening silence as there was every morning. Time ticked by as I talked to him and told him about my week. It was a one-sided conversation. I often wished we had spoken more before he had poor health.
I held his hand and hoped that he knew I was there.

3. An Indian Father’s Plea
Possible Annotations…
Questions (“I wonder…”)
Inferences (“I think…”)
Connections (“This reminds me of…”)
Personal Reactions (“This would make me feel _____ because….”)
Sketches of any images that stick out to you
For the first part of class, you’re going to read a letter written by a Native American father to his son’s kindergarten teacher.
As you read the letter, try annotating. If you can’t remember, annotating is when you write in response to the text in the margins. As you read the article, you need at least 3 annotations per page – that’s 9 total!

4. An Indian Father’s Plea: RAFT
For the rest of class, you have one job: to type a draft in response to the RAFT card you picked up at the start of the block.
Your job is to pretend to be your “role,” write 300 words minimum in your given format (a diary entry, an , a graduation speech, or a letter) about your given topic, all while keeping your audience in mind. Additionally, you need to include at least three references to “An Indian Father’s Plea” somewhere in your prompt.
You will be graded on your ability to follow your RAFT prompt, the effort you put in, as well as incorporating at least three references to the text.