Language Arts: Monday

1. Language Arts: Monday Warm Up: Bag It! Parts Of Speech- Split into groups and create bags (Noun/Verb). Lesson: Writer’s Toolbox: Leveling your leads… Activity: Write a lead for each slide and level it. Activity: Grade Benchmark 4th Block Activity: Invention Research Essay on Laptops-Rough Draft Homework: Reading Contract due Friday

2. 8 Major Parts of Speech: Write a part of speech and its definition on each bag. Decorate the bag with visuals to help you recall the information. Generate 10 Nouns and 10 verbs. Write them on note cards and sort them into the correct bags! • Noun: a naming word. It names a person, place, thing, idea, living creature, quality, or action. Examples: cowboy, theater, box, thought, tree, kindness, arrival • Verb: describes an action (doing something) or a state (being something). Examples: walk, talk, think, believe, live, like, want

3. Powerful Leads and Endings!Sentence LevelingSay it without saying it…Camera MethodCurtain MethodFive Senses • Did you include the potatoes?

4. Ideas for Creating Powerful Leads • MAKE A BOLD STATEMENT-STARTLE • BEGIN WITH A LITTLE-KNOWN FACT • OPEN WITH A QUOTATION • TELL A BRIEF, RELATED ANECDOTE • SET THE SCENE WITH A VIVID DESCRIPTION • LET TWO CHARACTERS ENGAGE IN BRIEF DIALOGUE • TELL SOMETHING YOU HAVE LONG BELIEVED- A PROVERB-SOMETHING YOU BELIEVE TO BE TRUE • PUT THE PIECE RIGHT INTO MOTION BY STARTING IN THE MIDDLE OF A SCENE • RAISE AN IMPORTANT OR MYSTERIOUS QUESTION • EXPOSE A SECRET TO YOUR READER

5. WAYS TO END • TELL SOMETHING YOU LEARNED ABOUT THE WORLD OR YOURSELF • TELL ONE THING YOU WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER • TELL SOMETHING THAT SURPRISED , STARTLED, DISAPPOINTED, OR PLEASED YOU • SURPRISE THE READER • END WITH A SCENE OR COMMENT THAT SUGGESTS MORE IS TO COME • END WITH A QUOTATION OR DIALOGUE THAT CONNECTS BACK TO THE MAIN IDEA OR TO YOUR LEAD SENTENCE • SUM IT ALL UP • GO BACK TO THE SETTING YOU ORIGINALLY STATED IN

6. Sentence Leveling • Write a simple sentence with a subject and verb and adjective. The pretty cat ran. • Take out the adjective, pretty, and replace it with a description of how the cat is pretty. The fluffy, black and white cat ran. • Take the subject out and replace it with a synonym. The fluffy, black and white feline ran. • Now replace the verb, ran, in the sentence with a synonym for ran. The fluffy, black and white feline darted. • Lastly, add description to your new verb to enhance how the action occurred- what did it look like, sound like,… where did it happen …when the cat darted? The fluffy, black and white feline darted across the well lit alley into the darkness.

7. Language Arts: Tuesday • Warm Up- Bag It! Parts of Speech • (Adjectives and Adverbs) • Activity: Spelling Bee Try Outs • Activity: Writing Multiple Choice • HW: Reading Contract

8. 8 Major Parts of Speech: Write a part of speech and its definition on each bag. Decorate the bag with visuals to help you recall the information.Generate 10 Adjectives and 10 Adverbs. Write them on note cards and sort them into the correct bags! • Adjective: describes a noun. It tells you something about the noun. Examples: big, yellow, thin, amazing, beautiful, quick, important • Adverb: usually describes a verb. It tells you how something is done. It may also tell you when or where something happened. Examples: slowly, intelligently, well, yesterday, tomorrow, here, everywhere

9. Spelling Bee!

10. Writing SOL BenchmarkMultiple Choice

11. Language Arts: Wednesday • Warm Up: Bag It! Parts of Speech • Lesson: Writer’s Toolbox: Score Writing Prompt Response and Find the POTATOES! • Activity: Invention Research Essay Rough Draft on Laptops/ Peer Edit/ Level and Self-Edit/ Final Draft • HW: Reading Contract Due Friday

12. Bag It! • Pronoun: used instead of a noun, to avoid repeating the noun. Examples: I, you, he, she, it, we, they • Preposition: usually comes before a noun, pronoun or noun phrase. It joins the noun to some other part of the sentence. Examples: on, in, by, with, under, through, at

13. Powerful Leads and Endings!Sentence LevelingSay it without saying it…Camera MethodCurtain MethodFive Senses • Did you include the potatoes?

14. USE YOUR SENSES!

15. Camera Method Focus your camera on the surfer and describe what you see from the inside out as you widen the lens. Focus your camera on the shark and describe what you see from the outside in as you widen the lens.

16. Curtain Method! Describe the object in the same ways a curtain can open: • Left to Right • Right to Left • Top to bottom • Corner to Corner • Inside to Out • Outside to In

17. Left to Right • Right to Left • Top to bottom • Corner to Corner • Inside to Out • Outside to In

18. Language Arts: Thursday • Warm Up: Bag It! (Conjunctions and Interjections) • Lesson: Use one of yesterday’s potatoes for a method of description and describe your invention. • Activity: Invention Research Essay-Last DAY! • HW: Reading Contract

19. Bag It! • Conjunction: joins two words, phrases or sentences together. Examples: but, so, and, because, or FANBOYS • Interjection: an unusual kind of word, because it often stands alone. Interjections are words which express emotion or surprise, and they are usually followed by exclamation marks. Examples: Ouch!, Hello!, Hurray!, Oh no!, Ha!

20. USE YOUR SENSES!

21. Camera Method Focus your camera on the surfer and describe what you see from the inside out as you widen the lens. Focus your camera on the shark and describe what you see from the outside in as you widen the lens.

22. Curtain Method! Describe the object in the same ways a curtain can open: • Left to Right • Right to Left • Top to bottom • Corner to Corner • Inside to Out • Outside to In

23. Left to Right • Right to Left • Top to bottom • Corner to Corner • Inside to Out • Outside to In

24. Language Arts: Friday • Warm Up: Bag It! Sort words from sentences into correct Part of Speech Bag. • Lesson/Activity: Finish Research Paper Final Draft and Begin Presenting PowerPoint Presentations • Collect Reading Contracts/ Pass Out RC’s for next week.

25. 1. Wow, you are the best teacher. 2. Bobby took his dirty bat to the room, and he found his ball. 3. Darn, we lost the game to the Dragons, but Darin had a home run. 4. The ugly sprout grew quickly into a lovely flower. 5. Sure, we have that expensive part in stock at our store, and it is on sale.

26. 6. Marilyn played carefully with the two-year-old, yet she laughed cheerfully the whole time. 7. Whew, I sweat constantly in the blazing sun. 8. Darn, they never win against the big Lincoln team or the fast team from Brownsville. 9. Tommy had his football pads, helmet and cleats packed tightly in his purple duffel bag. 10. Ouch! I just pinched my index finger in the front door.

27. Monday • Warm Up: Figurative Language • Lesson/Activity: Writing Prompt • Library?

28. WARM UP Create a sentence with a metaphor. Create a sentence with a simile. Create a sentence with onomatopoeia. Create a sentence with hyperbole. Create a sentence that personifies a cell phone. JOURNAL TOPIC: YOU CAN’T SHAKE A SHADOW THAT IS FOLLOWING YOU EVERYWHERE…FREE WRITE!