1. Reading 7 Warm Up 8/29/2014 1.) Fill out your planner and take out your Reading homework (SSR Book, Signed Course Expectations and Comprehension questions). 2.)In your small group, discuss the following questions: a.When your teacher gives a directive and you do not follow through you are considered _______. b.If you sign the Citizenship Log more than ___, your Citizenship grade changes from an O to a ____. c.Ms. Carter has spoke to a student TWICE for socializing with a peer during Independent work. What would be the student’s consequence?.

2. Reading 6 Warm Up 8/29/2014 1.) Fill out your planner and take out your colored pencils, #2 pencil, homework and a piece of notebook paper. 2.)In your group, discuss 3 things your learned this week in Ms. Carter’s class. (Everyone needs to share)

3. WARM UP Thursday, 9/4/2014 1.List the 5 types of Context Clues a. b. c. d. e. 2. Write a sentence using one of the words from Wednesday’s warm-up. Include a definition clue. Underline the word and the clue.

4. Reading 7 Warm Up 9/5/2014 Complete class procedures. Today’s Needed Supplies: Planner (filled out and open on your table), completed homework handouts, Reading notebook, Reading book, writing utensils (sharpened), and highlighter. Immediately begin your Warm Up Activity below. Write on your answers on your Warm Up paper. ** A student (from each group) that finishes their Warm Up will need to retrieve a dictionary from the bookcase in the back of the classroom. 1. Write a sentence using the word hyperactive. Include an experience clue. Underline the word and the clue. 2. Write a sentence using the word vociferous. Include an antonym clue. Underline the word and the clue.

5. Reading 7 Warm Up 9/8/2014 Complete class procedures. Today’s Needed Supplies: Planner (filled out and open on your table), Reading notebook, Reading book, writing utensils (sharpened), copy of Plot Diagram cut-out and highlighter. Warm Up: Complete Context Clues Quiz. Place your quiz in Reading 7 class basket and read quietly until everyone finishes their quiz.

6. Reading 7 Warm Up 9/9/2014 Begin this week’s Warm Up on half- sheet of paper 1.) Write the following plot elements in the correct order. falling action exposition climax rising action resolution 2.) Why would it be easier to identify the climax of a story before you identify the rising action?

7. Reading 7 Warm Up 9/10/2014 Please take out all Reading supplies (including glue stick). Each group will need ONE dry erase marker. When you finish Warm Up below, with your group, finish identifying slang and dialect words from poem, ‘A Boy Named Sue’. 1.) Define theme. 2.) Define protagonist. Who is the protagonist in “A Boy Named Sue”? 3.) Define setting.

8. Reading 7 Warm Up 9/11/2014 Choose the best meaning of the underlined word. Explain what context clues you used to help you define the word. 1.Her quiet, timid ways made us guess at her true feelings about the story because she kept her ideas to herself and never spoke in the class. a. shy c. kind b. boisterous d. seriously 2. He was found running down the street after curfew, and his parents were penalized. The ticket read: "Illegally in the streets at 1:00A.M." Now he would have to pay the ticket with his own money. a. crooked c. delicate b. fined d. informed

9. Reading 7 Warm Up 9/12/2014 Complete classroom procedures. Please have your ACES homework out on your desk. When I come to your table to stamp your planner, I will check for this assignment. Warm Up: Review your answers to Tone Handout with your group members

10. Reading 7- WARM UP 9/15/2014 If you were absent last Friday OR you need to make-up a missing quiz, please see me to take your quiz. Notes are not permitted on quiz. *NO TALKING OR DISTRACTIONS WHILE QUIZ IS ADMINISTERED Everyone else, using your ACES for “A Boy Named Sue”, write your final written prompt on a separate sheet of paper.

11. Reading 7 Warm Up 9/16/2014 Supplies Needed Today: Planner (filled out), ½ sheet of loose paper for this weeks Warm Ups, “Fireworks” by Katy Perry, reading notebook and 2 different colored highlighter OR colored pencils Read the following examples of figurative language. For each one, write “simile” or “metaphor” on your paper. 1. I feel like a limp dishrag. 2. Those girls are like two peas in a pod. 3. The fluorescent light was the sun during our test. 4. No one invites Harold to parties because he’s a wet blanket. 5. The bar of soap was a slippery eel during the dog’s bath. 6. Ted was as nervous as a cat with a long tail in a room full of rocking chairs. 7. The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the cans on the grocery store shelves. 8. As the teacher entered the room, she muttered under her breath, "This class is like a three-ring circus!" 9. The giant’s steps were thunder as he ran toward Jack. 10. The pillow was a cloud when I put my head upon it after a long day.

12. Reading 7 Warm Up 9/18/2014 Answer the following questions. You must write the whole answer. 1.Which of the following statements is an example of hyperbole? A. The winter was wicked. B. His hands are baseball mitts. C. The bird's legs are like sticks. D. I am so tired, I could sleep for a million years. 2. Which of the following statements is an example of a simile? A. Go jump in a lake. B. She's as sweet as pie. C. Sally sold seashells by the seashore. D. The sun smiled upon us.