Wednesday, October 30, 2013

 

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 40

 

Check homework: (completed backside of this week’s vocabulary handout)

 

WARMUP: (to be collected)

1. Read through all your writing from yesterday.
2. Next, imagine that a friend of yours is upset about something and is about to make a bad choice.
3. On a clean sheet of paper, write your friend a brief note that…
1. explains how his/her situation is just like the situation in one of our short stories and
2. how they could end up just like the character if they don’t change their ways.
4. STAPLE your note ON TOP OF all your IBIS writing from yesterday.

 

·         Return Super Soaker papers.

1. Common error: not enough information about the article.
1. It’s not okay to take the subject “super soaker” and write anything we want about it.
2. We must figure out what the key purpose of the article is and expand on it.

2. Imagine that the only things the cyborg understands about how real human beings are to behave is from what he learns from “Who Made That Super Soaker?”
• Write down 5 THINGS that he would learn about the behavior of humans if we inputted the story “Who Made That Super Soaker?” into his memory.

                                                              i.      Write them in the form of a statement, not a question.

• Choose your favorite, and rewrite it as your 1^st sentence/introduction/purpose
2. Add a single sentence of explanation.
• Don’t write “IF YOU ASK ME…” but think it, and then write your explanation. (2^nd sentence)
3. 3^rd sentence: Write “According to the article, “Who Made That Super Soaker,” …(paraphrase or add a quote from the article)
4. At your tables, create a clever way (or a trick) that would help others remember the definitions of the following words (and write them onto a whiteboard):

·         Table 1 = jaded, advocate, gist

·         Table 2 = charisma, efface

·         Table 3 = ogre, mesmerize, entity

·         Table 4 = bandy, dastardly

6. CHALLENGE (table against table):

·         What does “boring” look/feel/taste/sound/smell like?

                                                  i.      List them. Use all 5 senses…

ENGLISH homework:

1.      Without using the word “boring” “bored” or “boredom”– write a ½ page paragraph using some of your list to describe homework.

2.      Study for Friday’s vocabulary test (Lesson 5: jaded, gist, advocate…)