1. Reading/Writing Strategies Class. Welcome to Miss Stallworth’s Room
Reading/Writing Strategies Class!!!!! Welcome to Miss Stallworth’s Room!!! 102 Instructions: 1. Find your seat by looking at the back white board.
2. On your popsicle stick could you please write your first name on one end. And on the other end of the stick a saying that you would like the class to say after you answer a question!!! 

2. It’s A BRAND NEW YEAR!!!! Important group of students!
Think about one thing you could change from last year to this year!
Go over syllabus!!! 

3. We are all in this together…
Grab 3 pieces of colored strips at the supply table.
Write down 3 ways in which you can help someone.
What are your strengths, what are you good at?
After that.. Link two strips together like a chain!

4. What kind of learner am I?
What kind of smart are you? Activity

5. Can Opener Question!!!
1.) What do I do when I read?

6. What is an active learner?
In your groups I want you to divide your poster into four squares and label one box active reader, one box active writer, one box active listener/speaker, and the last box active student.
write down 5 things that describe what it means to be each of those things.
- Look at the back of the board for what it is supposed to look like.

7. Lets pick our TOP 3 in each category!!!

8. Can Opener Question
What do you think are the risks involved in wanting to appear richer than you are?

9. Agree or Disagree?
1. Lying is acceptable in some situations. You should always lie to save face.
2. Life sometimes hands you cruel situations. The best thing to do when this happens is to keep your suffering to yourself and find a way to get by.
3. Material goods, like clothing and cars are extremely important to being happy. Money can’t buy happiness but it definitely makes it easier to be happy.

10. The Necklace By: Guy de Maupassant
The setting in the story is in Paris in the 1800’s.
There was a rigid and strict social class.

11. Being an Active reader…
I challenge you to find out the lesson that the main character learns when she reaches above her social class…

12. Can-Opener What do you think awry could mean in the sentence below?
Her skirts were awry.

13. Some examples:
Madame Loisel looked old now. She had become like all the other strong, hard, coarse women of poor households. Her hair was badly done, her skirts were awry, her hands were red. She spoke in a shrill voice, and the water slopped all over the floor when she scrubbed it.
Using more context clues surrounding the word. Now what could awry mean?
Underline the words that helped you draw that conclusion.

14. Example: Using Context Clues
Instead of being delighted, as her husband hoped, she flung the invitation petulantly across the table, murmuring:
"What do you want me to do with this?“- Madame yelled!
Look for the context clues- underline anything that helps you define what petulantly could mean.

15. Two new girls started school this week
Two new girls started school this week. Beth has a gregarious attitude, while Jenna is rather quiet.
What could gregarious mean?

16. “The Necklace” Gallery Walk
Madam Loisel is UNHAPPY with her life= TOPIC SENTENCE
Madam Loisel wanted only money to be happy.= OPINION *
Madam Loisel was unhappy with her life because she was poor. =OPINION
She is a poor woman who wants to live her life in a higher class.=OPINION

17. Paragraphs A good paragraph has the following key elements:
A focused topic
A main idea expressed in a topic sentence
Details supporting the main idea
A concluding sentence
Paragraphs vary in length. In general a good 9th grade paragraph is 7-9 sentences long.

18. “The Necklace”
Women sometimes put a lot of un-needed pressure on themselves.
Most women care about what people think.=OPINION *
Women were only seen for their beauty and known for what class they were in.
Most girls are greedy.= OPINION

19. Your turn…
TOPIC SENTENCE
OPINION
EVIDENCE

20. Now time to create a Found Poem
You will now practice using details from a story, analyzing evidence, and highlighting your theme by creating a 10 line found poem.
A found poem is created by using exact quotes from the story to make a poem

21. FOUND Poem •Unable to afford jewelry, she dressed simply.
•She suffered constantly
•She tossed the invitation on the table and muttered,
•"We'll have to replace the necklace."
•Her husband worked in the evenings
•and often at night as well.
•Madame Loisel looked old now
•And she smiled, full of proud, simple joy.
•"And it took us ten years to pay for it."
•"Oh my poor Mathilde! Mine was false!"

22. Can-Opener
Are there any traditions or rituals that you or your family do?
Tradition: Something that is passed down generation to generation.
Ritual: a religious ceremony made up of certain actions that follow a certain order.

23. My traditions…

24. How do traditions impact people’s behavior/life?
How do certain rituals impact people’s behavior/life?