1. In this PowerPoint… Victorian Poetry (Brownings)
Grammar Patterns and Rules (DO, IO, PN, PA)
Protest Article
ArcGIS and VR Discussion
Oliver Twist Chapter 1
Oliver Twist Vocabulary
Oliver Twist Chapters 2 and 3 Overview
Matrix Time

2. Advanced English 6 February 13-14
6.1 The student will participate in and contribute to small-group activities.
a) Communicate as leader and contributor.
b) Evaluate own contributions to discussions.
c) Summarize and evaluate group activities.
d) Analyze the effectiveness of participant interactions.
6.7 The student will write narration, description, exposition, and persuasion.
a) Identify audience and purpose.
b) Use a variety of prewriting strategies including graphic organizers to generate and organize ideas.
c) Organize writing structure to fit mode or topic.
d) Establish a central idea and organization.
e) Compose a topic sentence or thesis statement if appropriate.
f) Write multiparagraph compositions with elaboration and unity.
g) Select vocabulary and information to enhance the central idea, tone, and voice.
h) Expand and embed ideas by using modifiers, standard coordination, and subordination in complete sentences.
i) Revise sentences for clarity of content including specific vocabulary and information.
j) Use computer technology to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish writing.
6.8 The student will edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, and paragraphing.
a) Use a variety of graphic organizers, including sentence diagrams, to analyze and improve sentence formation and paragraph structure.
b) Use subject-verb agreement with intervening phrases and clauses.
c) Use pronoun-antecedent agreement to include indefinite pronouns.
d) Maintain consistent verb tense across paragraphs.
e) Eliminate double negatives.
f) Use quotation marks with dialogue.
g) Choose adverbs to describe verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.
h) Use correct spelling for frequently used words.

3. To Do Today:
Discuss grammar patterns and rules.
Interview a protester, and compose an article about the protest.
Discuss findings from the ArcGIS maps and VR experience.
Read and discuss Oliver Twist chapter 1.
Have matrix time.
You need:
your Chromebook,
a pencil,
your journal,
your planner, and
your purple portfolio.

4. Victorian Poetry: What do you think?
Robert Browning ( )
Elizabeth Browning ( )

5. Grammar-Parts of Sentences
Who or what the sentence is about
Subject
What the subject is doing or joining the rest of the sentence to the subject
Predicate
Singular vs. Plural
Singular subjects need singular verbs.
Plural subjects need plural verbs.
Prepositional phrases ARE NOT included in the subject.
A group of fifty musicians is here.
Agreement in Number
Doing vs. being or joining
Action vs. Linking

6. Grammar-Parts of Sentences
Direct Object (DO)
Noun or pronoun
Receives the action of the verb
Answers Whom? or What?
Popeye eats spinach.
She greeted you and me.
Indirect Object (IO)
Located between the action verb and the DO
Answers To whom?, For whom?, To what?, or For what?
I handed the dog a bone.
Picasso taught you and me a new understanding of the world.

7. Grammar-Parts of Sentences
Action Verb (AVP)
Subject is doing something
Direct Object (DO)
Noun or pronoun
Receives action of verb
Indirect Object (IO)
Between AVP and DO
Joins subject to predicate
Is comparable to an equals sign
Subject=complement
Linking Verb (LVP)
Completes the sentences
Predicate Nominative (Noun)-PN
Predicate Adjective-PA
Subject Complement (SC)

8. Predicate Adjective (PA)
Subject Complements
Predicate Adjective (PA)
The pie smells delicious.
Predicate Nominative (PN)
Charles Dickens was a journalist.

9. Grammar Patterns and Rules
If I were you, I would ask the emperor for
forgiveness.
Mrs. Fritzinger handed the students Oliver
Twist.

10. Protest and Journalism
You are either a British (red) or American (blue) reporter. The British will be reporting for The London Times and the Americans will be reporting for The Virginia Gazette.
Develop at least 5 interview questions to ask a colonist about the protest.
Interview someone by asking him or her the questions and writing down their responses.
Write an article with at least three paragraphs about the protest. Be sure to include responses from the person you interviewed and to write from the perspective of your newspaper.
Turn it in on Schoology when you are finished.

11. ArcGIS and VR Explorations
What did you notice and/or learn?
What would Dickens have seen, heard, smelled, tasted, and touched?
Why would Dickens have written about the topics he chose?
Discuss Victorian England—hone in on why it is called “Victorian”. Also, discuss installments and make sure to tie that into reading the book. Students may not read ahead.

12. Questions/Predictions
Oliver Twist Chapter 1
Important Events
Characters
Setting
Questions/Predictions
Vocabulary

13. Matrix: Complete from left to right.
Vocabulary Activity 1 due TODAY!
Remember to read ALL of the directions carefully.
Spelling counts!
Read Oliver Twist chapter 2 and take notes on the chart (due NEXT CLASS)!
Quarter 3 Creative Journal: 1 due Wednesday, February 26-A and Thursday, February 27-B and 1 due Wednesday, March 20-A and Thursday, March 21-B
Finish ANY AND ALL unfinished Advisory work and VLD work by February 19.
Digital Portfolio
“Where I’m From” poem-6th grade page
“Where I’m From” reflection-6th grade page
Reader paragraph-Home page
Writer paragraph-Home page
Personal Narrative-6th grade page
Personal Narrative reflection-6th grade page
Character Analysis-6th grade page
Character Analysis reflection-6th grade page
Eminent Person Page
Derivatives Activities on vocabulary.com
ONLY if you finish everything else, you may
Work on anything in Schoology under the Grammar Resources folder.
Make and play a Vocabulary Jam on vocabulary.com.
Record your “Where I’m From” poem on Seesaw.