1. Warm Up: Diagram the following sentences.
1. Beth and Kelly read very slowly.
2. My black cat plays and sleeps constantly.
3. The new mother ironed, baked and cooked.
4. Stay or go.
5. The little boy and the new neighbor joked and laughed all day.

2. definition of a homophone is?
What is a homophone?
Homophone Song
What do you think the
definition of a homophone is?

3. Write the definition in your notebook.
Homophone- a word pronounced the same as another word but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not. Example: heir and air

4. Activity 1 Select homophones from the list you are given.
With your partner create a skit using the words correctly in a sentence and showing what each word means. You should hold up a sign to show the spelling of each word when you use it.
Example:
Skit 1- Two students walking toward each other and one says, “Hi, I am so happy to meet you today.
Skit 2- Two people are at the grocery store discussing buying meat to cook for dinner…”Hmmm. Should we buy steak, pork chops, or chicken.”

5. Activity 2
Draw two cartoons to illustrate the homophones used in your skit. Each cartoon should have correctly spelled homophones and at least 1 sentence with the homophone used correctly. The board of education met yesterday. I am bored with education.

6. I just want to be myself. I want to bee myself for Halloween.

7. I hit the pause button on the VCR
I hit the pause button on the VCR. My cat wants a paws button of his own.

8. All comics from http://www.graphicdesignblog.org
Scoring Guide:
0 = Never
1 = Minimal
2 = Adequate
3 = Outstanding
Elements of Comic Strip
The illustrations in the comic strip appropriately depict the assigned homophone.
The assigned homophone is spelled correctly throughout the comic strip.
A complete sentence is given with the homophone used correctly in context.
Overall, the students’ understanding of the homophone and its meaning is evident in the comic strip.