1. Class Notes Tab
Capitalization and APE 8/29/14 Learning Objectives: Do I understand when to use capital letters? Can I organize my writing using the APE structure?
Welcome Work: 1. Take out your Vocabulary worksheet.
2. Take out your materials (if they still need to be checked).
3. Label a piece of paper with the title, date, and LO’s. Make sure you’re using the correct section of your binder.
Capitalization and APE /29/14 Learning Objectives: Do I understand when to use capital letters? Can I organize my writing using the APE structure?

2. Take out: 1. Highlighted excerpt of The Shipping News 2
Take out: 1. Highlighted excerpt of The Shipping News 2. Stan the Stickman HW.
HOLD THEM UP!

3. Write down the following question:
OER #1 Based on the excerpt, what is one of Quoyle’s most significant character traits? Use evidence from the text to explain your answer.
Using the text and your stick figure, please write down your answer.

4. Time’s Up! PAIR SHARE Was this easy? Why or why not?
Count your sentences.
PAIR SHARE Was this easy? Why or why not?

5. Answering Open-Ended Response Questions:

8. Let’s look at one together:
Excerpt from Matilda by Roald Dahl
Miss Trunchbull, the Headmistress, was something else altogether. She was a gigantic holy terror, a fierce tyrannical monster who frightened the life out of the pupils and teachers alike. There was an aura of menace about her even at a distance, and when she came up close you could almost feel the dangerous heat radiating from her as from a red-hot rod of metal. When she marched — Miss Trunchbull never walked, she always marched like a storm-trooper with long strides and arms aswinging — when she marched along a corridor you could actually hear her snorting as she went, and if a group of children happened to be in her path, she ploughed right on through them like a tank, with small people bouncing off her to left and right. Thank goodness we don't meet many people like her in this world, although they do exist and all of us are likely to come across at least one of them in a lifetime. If you ever do, you should behave as you would if you met an enraged rhinoceros out in the bush — climb up the nearest tree and stay there until it has gone away. This woman, in all her eccentricities and in her appearance, is almost impossible to describe, but I shall make some attempt to do so a little later on.

9. Open-Ended Response How does Dahl reveal the way Miss Trunchbull treats others? Use textual evidence to explain your answer.
Word Doc

10. Why do we bother with grammar?
Turn to your neighbor and discuss:
Do you like learning about grammar?
What do you know about grammar?
Do you think it’s important we learn about it?

11. Grammar Pre-Test Results

12. Grammar Mini-Lesson: Capitalization
Grammar & Vocabulary

14. HOMEWORK Due Wednesday, September 3:
Re-write your OER about Quoyle (separate piece of paper, please!)
Capitalization worksheet