1. HOMEWORK STRIKE SYSTEM IN EFFECT: COMPOSITION NOTEBOOK OUT BEFORE BELL
Wednesday October 1st, 2008
HOMEWORK STRIKE SYSTEM IN EFFECT:
COMPOSITION NOTEBOOK OUT BEFORE BELL
Agenda
TURN IN HOMEWORK INTO BIN (PG. 60/61 IN HOLT READER)
Warm up in notebook.
Warm up discussion
Review of main idea, patterns of organization, and author’s purpose.
What you do today will decide what we do tomorrow.
MASTERING FCAT, MODEL: pg
MASTERING FCAT, CLASSWORK: pg
POP QUIZ THURS/FRI
Objective(s):
Apply main idea/organizational pattern/author’s purpose notes by answering questions in Mastering FCAT within 20 minutes.

2. NO NOTES
Warm Up, 10/1 [6 min]
USE YOUR NOTES FROM EARLIER THIS WEEK: 1. Explain how main idea is like an upside down umbrella. 2. What is a descriptive organizational pattern use? (think about Scabbs being tossed around the room). 3. What is CHRONOLOGICAL order? Where does that word come from? 4. What is the difference between a utopia and a dystopia? 5. What is VENN DIAGRAM? How is it useful for compare/contrast?

3. Main Idea IS THIS ANSWER ABOUT THE WHOLE PASSAGE? Only ONE main idea
NO NOTES
Main Idea
Only ONE main idea
For main idea questions, go through the answers and ask yourself:
IS THIS ANSWER ABOUT THE WHOLE PASSAGE?

4. Patterns of Organization
NO NOTES
Patterns of Organization
The big one’s:
CAUSE AND EFFECT
COMPARE AND CONTRAST
PROBLEM/SOLUTION
CHRONOLOGICAL (time)

5. Author’s Purpose Why the author is writing: NARRATIVE: tell a story
NO NOTES
Author’s Purpose
Why the author is writing:
NARRATIVE: tell a story
EXPOSITORY: to explain a situation/problem
PERSUASIVE: to get YOU to change your mind about something

6. TAKE OUT A SHEET OF PAPER TURN TO PG. 91 IN MASTERING FCAT
NO NOTES
TAKE OUT A SHEET OF PAPER
TURN TO PG. 91 IN MASTERING FCAT
THIS FIRST ONE WE WILL POP CORN TOGETHER AND GO OVER EVERY ANSWER.

7. TURN TO PG. 94 IN MASTERING FCAT
NO NOTES
TURN TO PG. 94 IN MASTERING FCAT
YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN. ANSWER EVERY QUESTION THAT YOU CAN, INCLUDING SHORT/EXTENDED RESPONSES, ON YOUR SHEET OF PAPER.

8. CLASS ANNOUCEMENTS “JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN.”
NO NOTES
CLASS ANNOUCEMENTS
“JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN.”
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