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ELA. 4/13 to 4/17. Sunday 4/13 Do Now . Describe a few key events from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. Sunday 4/13 – Reading . Continue Reading The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street . Pages 144-146. Monday 4/14 – Do Now.
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ELA 4/13 to 4/17
Sunday 4/13 Do Now • Describe a few key events from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.
Sunday 4/13 – Reading • Continue Reading The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. • Pages 144-146
Monday 4/14 – Do Now • Circle preposition, put a box around the object of the preposition and underline the prepositional phrase. • Example: The ball went over the fence. • He lives beyond the giant hill. • I mouse ran along the wall. • During the war, he was very thin. • He was known as the king.
Monday 4/14 – MAP Practice • You are writing about a vacation you just had. How will you write it so the reader can picture what you saw? • I read comic books in the car as we drove. • The mountains were high and white with snow. • We ate a lot of good stuff and saw many things. • The highway was bumpy, and I got sick. What words help you visualize it?
Monday 4/14 – MAP Practice • Which set of words all have the same root word? • extra, relax, pretext • here, where, there • knowledge, unknown, knowing • contain, restrain, plain Look at the main word, not the parts of the word that have been added.
Monday 4/14 – Vocabulary Assent Defiant Optimistic revelation Incriminate antagonism contorted converging
Tuesday 4/15 – Do Now • In 2-3 sentences, how do you think the story will end?
Tuesday 4/15 – Reading • Finish Reading The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. • Pages 147-148 • Film: Twilight Zone Episode Part 1
Wednesday 4/16 – Do Now • Write a list of 10 prepositions.
Wednesday 4/16 – Conjunction • Conjunction: words the join words or word groups • Coordinating Conjunction: single word and but for nor or so yetI want pizza or pasta and a cookie. • Correlative Conjunction: pair of words both…….and not only…….but also either…….or neither…….nor whether…..or I will either go to London or to Greece.
Wednesday 4/16 – Interjection • Interjection: word that expresses an emotion aha my ouch hey hurray oh oops rats well wow yikes yippee Goodness! That was close. That was, well, interesting. Oh Cool! I can’t wait. Hey, why did you do that? That really hurt. Ouch!
Wednesday 4/16 – Assignment • Holt Handbook • Page 63 – Exercise 13 – Evens • Page 64 – Exercise 14 – Odds
Thursday 4/17 – Do Now • Identify the conjunctions in the sentence. • He failed his test, yet he still passed the class. • Whether we go swimming or skiing, I will be happy. • Neither monsters nor aliens scare me. • I want ice cream, but I am on a diet.
Thursday 4/17 – Literary Analysis • Literature Book • Page 149 • Questions: 1 - 8