This week in Language Arts...

Almost everyone is finished with their most recent Practice EOG.  I will score them this week and send the grade home.  We will go over each question together in class to make sure everyone understands the correct answer.  Students will work at EOG and Vocabulary Centers to practice skills like main idea, inference, and reading comprehension.

 

 

 

Vocabulary for the Week- Test on Thursday!!

 

Cause: What makes something happen

Effect: What happens because of something.

Main Idea: What the story is mainly about.

Purpose: why the author wrote the passage

Opinion: How a person feels about something

Characteristics: Traits a character has

Fact: A statement that is true

Details:
sentences that support the main idea that tells who, what, when, where and why

To Entertain: Humor the reader (funny)

To Inform: To give information or facts to the reader

To Persuade: To get the reader to buy or do something

Prediction: Something you think will happen

Compare and Contrast: How are things alike and different

Sequence: The order of events

Inference:

A special kind of guess or opinion based on facts.

Characters: The people or animals in the story

Plot: Part of the story that tells what happens.

Problem: Part of the Plot. Also known as the conflict 

Resolution: When the problem in the story is fixed

Setting: Where and when the story takes place.

Synonym: Words that have the same meaning

Antonym: Words that have the opposite meaning

 

 

 

 

Tutoring

I have mentioned this to the students repeatedly BUT no one seems to want to take me up on it...
I am available to tutor most days from 2:45-3:10.  All you have to do is let me know ahead of time so I can have materials ready to go. 

Thank You,
G. Brindle

Proctors needed !!

If you are available to proctor the EOG's, please notify the front office.

Thank You

Week of 4/22/2013

Vocabulary Test on Thursday-  All of the words on remaining Vocabulary Tests will be EOG- related words.  This is list #1...

GENRES

• Fiction: A story that is made up or not true
• Non-Fiction: A selection that is true or factual
• Narrative: Another name for a story
• EyeWitness Account: A report of what a person saw with their own eyes
• Drama: Another word for plays
• Poetry: A text with stanzas. Lines, and rhyming words
• Memoirs: A kind of writing that tells someone’s memories
• Summary: A retelling of the most important parts of what was read.
• Order Form: Something you fill out when you want to buy something.
• Menu: A list of choices you can get at a restaurant.
• Schedule: A list of times and activities
• Recipe: Directions for cooking something
• Make-believe: made up/not real
• Biography: A story about someone’s life
• Autobiography: When the author tells his own life story     
• Article: A non-fiction selection usually found in a newspaper or magazine.
• Fantasy: Stories that have elements in them that could not really happen.
• Folk Tales: Fiction stories that are based on legends.
• Fairy Tales: Stories that involve unrealistic characters like fairies, and usually have a happy ending 
• Myths/Legend: A story passed down from generations that explain historical events
• Diaries/Journals: A record of daily events

 

We will also have a PRACTICE EOG TEST this week.  These scores will be sent home. PLEASE ask your student for these results.

 

We will clean out notebook on Monday or Tuesday and get them set-up for remainder of the year.

Poetry

Yes, we will continue our unit on poetry.

On Monday and Tuesday, we will...

COMPARE AND CONTRAST two or more

characters, settings, or events in a story or
drama, drawing on specific details in the text
(e.g., how characters interact).

Students will also write a Sensory Poem-click on address at bottom for details 

On Wednesday and Thursday, we will...

DETERMINE THE MEANING OF
WORDS and phrases as they are used in
text, including figurative language such as
metaphors and similes. 


THURSDAY IS VOCABULARY TEST!!



  
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:bUOynziAn6cJ:www.wcs.k12.mi.us/curriculum/resources/k-5_writing/poetry/files/Sensory%2520Poetry.pdf+write+a+sensory+poem&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjnzsVHQQCkM-JeWODORO2wi_qGFmgn5h8epUcmykwEPu2W5Oy17JRTASQaGmwVM_0QXocZXGYd5dnRXuAVrVfm5NdxCYx1zjiDfaIH94QkvauiNctgH4feDQD3C5qz9Yz8qvw5&sig=AHIEtbQbpq-piZPvFmJye07Q2rkupO5zxg

April seems like a perfect month for Poetry...

Wow, where does time go??  We will be taking EOG's before you know it.  It's time to get serious!
We will be reviewing poetry terms and styles.  Students will also start reviewing concepts we've covered throughout the year.  There will be lots of EOG style passages and reading in the weeks to come.

Be prepared for class every day.  Make sure to have your notebook, journal and pencils.  We must work every day to stay focused and give 100 percent.  I want every one of you to feel comfortable when the End of Grade Tests roll around.

We will have a vocabulary test next Thursday.  I will give you ten words on Tuesday and 10 more on Thursday.  You will have an entire week to study these words.

Here are the first 10:

1.  rhythm
2.  alliteration
3.  assonance
4.  metaphor
5.  onomatopoeia
6.  lyric poem
7.  narrative poem
8.  imagery
9.  personification
10.  simile

Homework Tuesday night:  Give an example of each term (except 6 and 7)
Homework Wednesday night:  Assignment on "Poison Tree"
Homework Thursday: Read 30 minutes and write a 4 to 5 sentence summary