Wednesday, September 4, 2011

1. Wednesday, September 4, 2011 In Agenda write: **FINISH FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE VOCABULARY • Pronouns • Discuss Imagery

2. Pronouns • Pronouns are useful words because they can “stand in” for nouns. They prevent people from having to use the same noun over and over again in a sentence. • Example: Mrs. Connelly is my teacher. She teaches English/Language Arts. • Let’s look at the pronoun handout. After we go over the handout, it will go in our binder behind our first tab. • Get out The Pronoun from your “my grammar section of your binder.” • The directions tell us to underline the pronoun and draw an arrow to the common or Proper noun it takes the place of.

3. What Is an Image? An image is a word or phrase that appeals to one of our senses. Images can help us • create a mental picture • hear a sound • feel texture or temperature • taste a sweet, sour, or salty flavor

4. Interactive Notebook • We will be adding two things to our Table of Contents. • 9-4-13 Words Poem pg. 9 • 9-4-13 Imagery Lesson pg. 8 • I will demonstrate how to cut out the imagery worksheet. • Cut out around all dark black lines. • Tape only on the left outside edge!! We will be lifting the flap to draw a picture.

5. Imagery Lesson • Imagery includes visualizing what you are reading using your five senses • This helps to identify a story’s setting, characters, and events • Setting: The place and time at which a story is happening • Characters: a person in a story • Events: A thing that happens, especially one of importance • You will be able to tell me the setting, characters, and events using your five senses after this lesson

6. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea • That evening, we were about two hundred miles from the coast of Japan. Conseil and I were on deck staring out at the sea. The crew, high up in the rigging, were still examining the horizon. Suddenly, we heard Ned Land’s voice shouting, “Ahoy! There it is!” Ned was pointing to a glowing oval-shaped object beneath the sea. The glow was so bright, even from four hundred yards away, that my eyes hurt just looking at it. Could this creature be charged with electricity? “Look, look!” I cried. “It’s coming right for us!” Commander Farragut reversed the engine and the Abraham Lincoln started moving away from the light. The strange glowing animal rushed towards our starboard side with terrifying speed. • What do you hear, smell, taste, feel, and see? • What is the setting, characters, and event of this passage?

7. 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea • What did you see? • Boat, crew, sea, glowing light under the sea • What did you hear? • Men shouting, water splashing, boat creaking, monster sounds • What did you smell? • Fish, salt water, maybe sickness from being scared or seasick, body odor (no showers) • What did you taste? • Salty air/water, sickness, dinner, sweat, maybe tears of fright • What did you feel? • Wood of boat, water, rocking of boat, heart racing • What is the setting? • In the evening 200 miles off the coast of Japan in the sea • Who are the characters? • Conseil, I, Ned Land, Commander Farragut, creature, crew • What is the event? • The crew spots a glowing creature in the sea coming toward the boat really fast

8. Witches • A real witch is certain always to be wearing gloves when you meet her. Even in the summer she has to. Do you want to know why? Because she doesn’t have fingernails. Instead of fingernails, she has thin curvy claws, like a cat, and she wears gloves to hide them. • The second thin to remember is that a real witch is always bald. Bald as a boiled egg. A real witch always wears a wig to hide her baldness. • Witches have slightly larger nose-holes than ordinary people. The rim of each nose-hole is pink and curvy, like the rim of a certain kind of sea shell. • Look carefully at the eyes, because the eyes of a real witch are different from yours and mine. Look in the middle of each eye where there is normally a black dot. If she is a witch, the black dot will keep changing color, and you will see fire and ice dancing right in the very center of the colored dot. It will send shivers running all over your skin. • The feet are different, they never have toes! The feet have square ends with no toes on them at all • There’s one more thing different about witches. Their spit is blue like ink. They even use it to write with. They use those old-fashioned pens that have nibs and they simply lick the nib to write.

9. Matilda • I was the prime suspect this time and although I knew she didn’t have any proof, nothing I said made any difference. The Trunchbull simply grabbed me by one ear and rushed me to The Chokey at the double and threw me inside and locked the door. • The Chokey is a very tall but very narrow cupboard. The floor is only ten inches square so you can’t sit down or squat in it. You have to stand. And three of the walls are made of cement with bits of broken glass sticking out all over, so you can’t lean against them. The door’s got thousands of sharp spiky nails sticking out of it. They’ve been hammered through from the outside, probably by the Trunchbull herself. You have to stand more or less at attention all the time when you get locked up in there. It’s terrible.