May 21, 2012

Homework• Spelling Unit 25 five time

each• Vocabulary Unit 13 own

definitions • Bring Literature and both

workbooks and your notebooks

Do Now• Test

May 22, 2012

Homework• Spelling pg 195

– Quiz Thursday

• Vocabulary pg 153-154– Completing the Sentence

• Literature pg 232 #5 and 6

Do Now• Poems

May 23, 2012

Homework• Get parent signature on Poetry

and IRT grade• Literature pg 232 #1 and 3• First Draft

– On loose leaf– Skip lines– NO SCRIPT! Write in Print

• Spelling pg 196-197– Quiz tomorrow

• Vocabulary 154– Quiz Friday

Do Now • Write a paragraph

convincing your parents to do something for you.

May 24, 2012

Homework• Vocabulary pg 155-156

– Quiz tomorrow

• 2nd Draft with corrections

Do Now• Spelling Quiz

May 25, 2011

Homework• Spelling Unit 26 five time

each• Vocabulary Unit 15 own

definitions• Literature pg 232 #2,4,7,8,

9, and 10• Final Typed Copy of

Paragraph Due Friday

Do Now• Quiz

May 29, 2012

Homework• Final copy of Persuasive

Paragraph due Friday• Spelling pg 203

– Quiz Thursday

• Vocabulary pg 167-168– Quiz Friday

Do Now• Literature pg 232 Copy

Literary Element and answer questions 1 and 2

May 30, 2012

Homework• Spelling pg 204

– Quiz tomorrow

• Vocabulary pg 168– Quiz Friday

• Literature pg 641 # 1 and 4

Do Now • Spelling pg 202

May 31, 2012

Homework• Vocabulary pg 169-170

– Quiz tomorrow

• Literature pg 641 #2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8• Persuasive Paragraph DUE TOMORROW!!

DO Now • Spelling Quiz

Literary Elements• Tone: The attitude of the narrator towards the

subject, ideas, theme or characters. It can be eerie, humorous, serious, threatening etc.

• Mood: The emotional quality or atmosphere of a story or poem.

• Stanza: A group of lines forming a unit in a poem. Together stanzas are the paragraphs of a poem.

• Repetition (refrain): The reoccurrence of sound, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a speech or piece of writing. Repetition increases the feeling of unity in a work.

• Visual Imagery: Is the collection of details that writers use to help readers visualize scenes. Visual imagery makes writing come to life.

Literary Elements

• Narrative Poetry– Poetry that tells a story

• Personification– A figure of speech which something non-human is

given human qualities.

• Simile – a figure of speech using like or as to compare two

seemingly unlike things

June 1, 2012

Homework• Test on Poetry Thursday• Comp Review Packet

completed by Friday

Do Now• Quiz

• Rhyme– the repetition of identical or similar sounds in the

ends of words that appear close to one another in a poem

– End Rhyme -rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines– Internal Rhyme -rhyme that occurs within a single

line of poetry

More literary elementsSymbol– Any object, person, place, or experience that

means more than what it is. Foreshadowing– The use of clues by an author to prepare readers

for an event that will happen in a story or poem. Onomatopoeia– The use of a word or phrase that actually imitates

or suggests the sound of what it describes.

Plot Map

June 4, 2012

Homework• Spelling pg 211 and 219• Literature pg 626 #1 and 3• Test Thursday on Poetry• Packet due Friday

Do Now • Spelling pg 210

External Conflict

• When a character struggles against an outside force– Man Versus Another Person or Machine– Man Versus Nature– Man Versus Society

Internal ConflictExists within the mind of the character who is torn

between opposing feelings

I’ll Walk the Tightrope”

• End Rhyme: me; delicately why; sigh• Internal Rhyme: stop; propped fall; parasol• Character: Speaker• Symbolism: tightrope• Setting: life

The Wreck of the Hesperus

• Setting is a ship at sea during a winter storm. Off the coast of New England

• Characters: skipper, his daughter, old sailor, and the fisherman

• The skipper enjoys the company of his little daughter. He is arrogant and overconfident. He laughs at the old sailor’s warning. He is defeated and dies

• Daughter is fearful ask a lot of questions. Alone in the storm is terrified and prays that the waters will be stilled. She lost her father and in the end her life is also taken

June 5, 2012

Homework• Spelling pg 212 and 220• Literature pg 626 #2,4, 5, 6,

7, 8, 9, 10

Do Now • Spelling pg 218

June 6, 2012

Homework• TEST TOMRROW STUDY!• Comp Review Packet completed by Friday• Spelling pg 213 and 221– Quiz Friday

Plot map:

• The exposition includes the introduction of the skipper, the daughter and the setting.

• The rising action includes the sailor’s warning, the storm’s onset, and the father’s death.

• The climax is the daughter’s confrontation with death.

• The falling action is the wreck of the ship• The resolution is the fisherman’s discovery of

the girl’s body.

Literary Elements examples

• Simile ex. Line 24 They are the billows frothed like yeast

• Alliteration ex. line 57 dark and drear• Personification ex. Gives rock human like

qualities. Calling them cruel line 71

The Cremation of Sam McGee• The story begins on Christmas day.• Sam McGee, a gold miner in the Arctic, abhors

the cold and dreads an icy grave.• He ask his friend to cremate him, should he die.

Soon Sam dies and the speaker travels with the corpse until he sees an abandoned ship which is called a derelict.

• He builds a fire with its wood and puts Sam in the fire. A while later, the speaker looks at the fire to see Sam sitting up smiling.

The Highwayman

• The highwayman is a thief in eighteenth century England. He promises to return to his love, Bess, by moonlight.

• King George’s redcoats learn of his planned return from Tim the ostler who overhears the highwayman. They capture Bess and lie in wait for the highwayman.

• When Bess hears the highwayman returning, she fire a musket and shoots herself to warn the highwayman away, which is the climax of the story.

• The highwayman retreats, but soon finds out Bess is dead. Enraged, he rides back to avenge her death but instead he is killed. The resolution is his death.

June , 2012

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