1. HOMEWORK STRIKE SYSTEM IN EFFECT: COMPOSITION NOTEBOOK OUT BEFORE BELL
Monday September 29th, 2008
HOMEWORK STRIKE SYSTEM IN EFFECT: COMPOSITION NOTEBOOK OUT BEFORE BELL
Agenda
“I’ve got a Golden Ticket!”
Warm Up in notebook
Review: Main Idea
PP Notes: Organizational Patterns
Mastering FCAT
POPCORN READING: pg
Answer short/extended response in notebook
POPCORN READING: pg
HOMEWORK: BRING HOLT READER TOM.!
Objective(s):
Identify organizational patterns by taking notes in composition notebook.
Apply main idea/organizational pattern notes by answering short/extended responses in Mastering FCAT.

2. Warm Up, 9/29 [5 min] Discussion of the “Golden Ticket”
NO NOTES
Warm Up, 9/29 [5 min]
Discussion of the “Golden Ticket”
“Golden ticket” = sit in the comfy chair for a day
“Golden tickets” are handed out to people who display amazing bouts of mental agility, intelligence, and good will towards others.
There are many things you can do to earn a golden ticket.
I wouldn’t be surprised if maybe one person per period per week earns a ticket.
IF YOU SIT IN THE CHAIR WITHOUT A GOLDEN TICKET, YOU WILL NOT SIT IN THE CHAIR FOR THE REST OF THE SEMESTER; IT IS A PRIVLEDGE; EARN IT!

3. NO NOTES
Main Idea
Main idea: the idea that holds the story/text together; what the WHOLE story is about
Directly stated: main idea stated at beginning or end of story/text.
Implied: “read between the lines”; you have to figure out the suggested main idea.

4. NO NOTES
Main Idea
Supporting Details: descriptions, facts, examples, statistics that SUPPORT the main idea.

5. NO NOTES
Main Idea
Is like an upside-down umbrella. Or
A house

6. Main Idea Traps On the FCAT…
NO NOTES
Main Idea Traps
On the FCAT…
1 or 2 answers out of 4 will be a supporting detail, not the main idea.
1 answer out of 4 will be a BOGUS answer.

7. Main Idea Traps Example: QUESTION: WHAT IS THE MAIN IDEA?
NO NOTES
Main Idea Traps
Example:
MAIN IDEA (what the article is about):
“My wife is the greatest wife ever!”
DETAILS (how the author supports his MAIN IDEA):
My wife makes me breakfast (with cheese) every morning.
My wife rubs my back after I workout
My wife takes great care of our children
QUESTION: WHAT IS THE MAIN IDEA?
The author thinks of cheese all the time.
The author thinks his wife is the greatest.
The author thinks of how sore he is after working out.
The author loves blue.

8. Organizational Patterns
TAKE NOTES
Organizational Patterns
Cause and Effect
AN EVENT and the RESULT OF THAT EVENT.
Because I was at the game late, I never got my homework done.

9. Organizational Patterns
TAKE NOTES
Organizational Patterns
Compare and Contrast
Similarities and differences between things or people.

10. Organizational Patterns
TAKE NOTES
Organizational Patterns
Descriptive
Uses lots of adjectives to describe something or someone.

11. Organizational Patterns
NO NOTES
Organizational Patterns
EXAMPLE:
The dew fell off the flowers.
VS.
The dark, cold, bleak, dry morning dew cascaded off the brittle, white flowers.

12. Organizational Patterns
TAKE NOTES
Organizational Patterns
Problem/Solution: A problem (conflict) is given, then a possible solution (resolution).

13. Organizational Patterns
TAKE NOTES
Organizational Patterns
Chronological: Events are ordered in TIME

14. Organizational Patterns
NO NOTES
Organizational Patterns
EXAMPLE:
9/21/1983: I was born.
6/4/2002: I graduated high school.
7/14/2007: I graduated from UF with my Masters degree.
9/28/2008: I am in this class teaching you.

15. MASTERING FCAT POPCORN READING, PG. 87-89
NO NOTES
MASTERING FCAT
POPCORN READING, PG
WE WILL DO MULTIPLE CHOICE TOGETHER
ANSWER SHORT/EXTENDED RESPONSES IN NOTEBOOK.