8 th Grade Week 31 Agenda & Obj. 4/8/13-4/12/13

1. 8th Grade Week 31 Agenda & Obj. 4/8/13-4/12/13 Monday: Key Ideas & Details • 8.4.3.3 Analyze how particular elements of a story interact (eg how setting shapes the characters or plot). Tuesday: Main Idea & Analyze Elements • 8.4.3.3 Analyze how particular elements of a story interact (eg how setting shapes the characters or plot). Wednesday: Analyze Elements • 8.4.3.3 Analyze how particular elements of a story interact (eg how setting shapes the characters or plot). Thursday: Fiction Inferences • 8.4.1.1 Literature Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Friday: Quiz & Wrap up

2. Daily Writing: Testing 4/8/13 Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail: • What are your thoughts about the MCA tests? • “I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.” ~Michael Caine

3. Monday: Key Ideas & Details • Hand in your “You Can Succeed” practice test and show me FTM Vocab Part 1 (words, definitions & sentences) in your notebook. • Review Friday’s test (anyone who hasn’t taken it, wait outside in the hall). • Hand test back to me in order to get ½ credit for your explanations. • Move on… Planner • Locating Details worksheet due tomorrow

4. Monday: Key Ideas & Details TAKE NOTES! Notebook title: Locating Details • Authors use details to help you understand what you’re reading. • Details can be people, places and things. • They can ALSO be facts, explanations and reasons. • Locating details is not always easy! • To find important details and help you understand what you’re reading, make sure to answer Five Ws and an H.

5. Monday: Key Ideas & Details Five Ws and an H. • WHO is the story/article about? • WHAT is the point/idea? What is the reason the author is writing? • WHERE does the plot or main idea take place? • WHY is the main idea important? WHY is the main character acting this way? • WHEN does the story/article take place? • HOW does the author reveal a motive or a reason?

6. Monday: Key Ideas & Details Other Tips for Locating Details: • Read the questions CAREFULLY, and be sure you understand what’s being asked. • Eliminate obvious wrong answers first. • Go back and find the detail that points to the right answer. • Review your answers after finishing.

7. Monday: Key Ideas & Details Think of an automobile! Without tires, an engine, and a steering wheel, the car wouldn’t work. In the same way, it would be impossible to understand what the author is trying to say without facts and details to support the main idea of a story or article. Read the following passage and answer the 6 MC questions that follow as a class. 1-3 you can find in the text, but 4-6 requires more careful reading…

8. Monday: Key Ideas & Details A Classic Car Story (Slide 1 of 3) Sterling McCall began collecting cars in 1979 in a small Texas town. A Toyota customer drove a 1927 Ford Model T Doctor’s Coupe into his dealership. The customer wanted to trade it for a new car. The Ford Model T was so unique and fun to drive Mr. McCall gladly made a deal. He liked the antique car so much he decided not to sell it and kept it in a barn on his farm outside of Houston.

9. Monday: Key Ideas & Details A Classic Car Story (Slide 2 of 3) Mr. McCall’s hobby of collecting older model cars became the talk of the town. People bean to bring their old cars to the dealership to trade for a new car. In 15 years, Mr. McCall Collected so many classic and antique cars he had to build garages all over his farm. A 1941 Buick Convertible, a 1948 Lincoln Continental convertible, and a 1946 Plymouth convertible were a few of the valuable and rare classics he bought, restored and drove just for fun.

10. Monday: Key Ideas & Details A Classic Car Story (Slide 3 of 3) The collection of cars totaled 88 when Mr. McCall finally decided to stop building garages on his farm and to open a car museum in Warrenton, a town located three miles from his farm. The Sterling McCall Old Car Museum opened in 1998. The museum provided a glimpse into the history of the automobile.

11. Monday: Key Ideas & Details Get out a sheet of scratch paper! 5Ws & H questions • Who is the story about? • Sterling McCall • Toyota Customers C. Car mechanics D. The Mayor 2.What was the first car in Mr. McCall’s collection?A. Buick convertible B. Lincoln ContinentalC.Lexus D. Model T.

12. Monday: Key Ideas & Details 3.Where was the car collection kept by the end of the story? • Houston B. On a farm C. A museum D. Galveston • When did Mr. McCall start his collection? • 1976 • 1988 • 1998 • 1979

13. Monday: Key Ideas & Details 5Ws & H questions continued… 5.Why did Mr. McCall open a museum?A. He didn’t want people vising his farm. B.He wanted to get the cars off his land. C.He didn’t want to build any more garages. D.He didn’t like cars anymore. 6.How did Mr. McCall make a living? • Collecting cars. • Farming • Mechanic • Selling Cars

14. Monday: Key Ideas & Details Answers! 5Ws & H questions • Who is the story about? • Sterling McCall • Toyota Customers C. Car mechanics D. The Mayor 2.What was the first car in Mr. McCall’s collection?A. Buick convertible B. Lincoln ContinentalC.Lexus D. Model T.

15. Monday: Key Ideas & Details 3.Where was the car collection kept by the end of the story? • Houston B. On a farm C. A museum D. Galveston • When did Mr. McCall start his collection? • 1976 • 1988 • 1998 • 1979

16. Monday: Key Ideas & Details 5Ws & H questions continued… 5.Why did Mr. McCall open a museum?A. He didn’t want people vising his farm. B.He wanted to get the cars off his land. C.He didn’t want to build any more garages. BEST! D.He didn’t like cars anymore. NO! 6.How did Mr. McCall make a living? • Collecting cars. • Farming • Mechanic • Selling CarsHe owned a car dealership. Nothing in the passage clearly says that he made money from the other three choices.

17. Daily Writing: Stress 4/9/13 Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail: • As a teenager, what stresses you out? How do you do to cope with your stress? • “Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.” ~Hans Selye

18. Tuesday: Main Idea & Analyze Elements • Hand in locating details worksheet • Move on to Main Idea & Analyze Elements Analyze Elements • 8.4.3.3 Analyze how particular elements of a story interact (eg how setting shapes the characters or plot). Planner • Finish main idea worksheet and story elements worksheet by tomorrow.

19. Tuesday: Main Idea & Analyze Elements Take notes! Notebook title: Main Idea Main Ideas arebroad statements about the subject of a passage. Main Ideas are revealed through: • Directly stated topic sentence • Implied through details and facts

20. Tuesday: Main Idea & Analyze Elements Tips for Finding a Main Idea • Read the title. • The main topic of the passage is often mentioned in the title. • Read the first and last sentence of each paragraph. • Most of the key words and ideas will be stated here. • Choose the answer that is the best statement or restatement of the passage. • Your choice should contain the key words mentioned in the title, the first sentence, or the last sentence of each passage. • Always read the entire passage to get an overview of what the author is writing. • Make sure to answer the 5Ws & H, especially if you think it’s implied.

21. Tuesday: Main Idea & Analyze Elements • Read sample passages and determine as a class the main idea and whether they are stated or implied. • Review Story Elements! • Work on main idea worksheet & elements of a story worksheets Due tomorrowwhat you don’t get done in class. • Exit slip (last 3-5 mins): • Write your name on scratch piece of paper. • I’m going to read a paragraph and give you A-D choices. Write the letter of the BEST main idea.

22. Daily Writing: Learn! 4/10/13 Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail: • “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~Mahatma Gandhi • “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” Bruce Lee

23. Wednesday: Analyze Elements • Hand in main idea worksheet & just show me story elements worksheet. • Continue with Analyzing Elements Analyze Elements • 8.4.3.3 Analyze how particular elements of a story interact (eg how setting shapes the characters or plot). Planner • Due tomorrow: On a separate piece of paper (at least 1/2 page-1page) use your story elements worksheet to write about how at least two elements shape other elements.

24. Wednesday: Analyze Elements 5 mins: Listen to short clip of rap song describing character, setting and plot. In pairs, finish word scramble: • First pair to get it done, gets late HW pass! • If no one gets it done in 8 minutes, no one gets a pass. • Some answers: • #4 Static #5 Dynamic • #21 Culmination of Events • #22 Denouement

25. Wednesday: Analyze Elements 5 mins: In the same pairs (on a separate piece of paper to hand in): • List at least 5 characters from your favorite novels or movies. • For each character, what are their most prominent traits/characteristics? • Discuss and write notes on how each character contributes to the meaning of the story. Example: Darth Vader from Star Wars!

26. Wednesday: Analyze Elements Example: Darth Vader from Star Wars was the evil force throughout the story. He is relentless in brining other characters (especially the protagonist) to the “dark side” but in the end, gives up power to save his son. This character contributes to the theme that even the most evil and powerful can have a change of heart and give up their power/life for the benefit of others.

27. Wednesday: Analyze Elements • One copy per table of The Juvie Three – please give these back before you leave class! • While I read an excerpt from novel The Juvie Three by Gordon Korman, answer these questions in your journal: Journal title: The Juvie Three • Who are the characters? • What’s the setting? • What’s the mood? • What’s the conflict? • Discuss with a partner how the different elements interact(Ex. how setting shapes the characters or plot). Write these notes in your journal!

28. Daily Writing: Failure 4/11/13 Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail: • “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.” ~Michael Jordan • “Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” ~Benjamin Franklin

29. Thursday: Inferences • Hand in your homework (1/2 – 1 page on story elements). • Discuss The Juvie Three by Gordon Korman and move on to inferences… Who are the characters? What’s the setting? What’s the mood? What’s the conflict? Planner • Quiz tomorrow on locating details, main idea, inferences & context clues (no story elements this week). • Read Cyclops story & answer questions in your journal (journal title: Cyclops) due Monday.

30. Thursday: Inferences Review Inferences: • Infer –verb; to conclude by using logic • Forms of the verb include:    infer, inferring, inferred • Inference – noun; the process of drawing conclusions based on logic For each of the pictures I show you, first tell me the DETAILS of the pictures. Then what you KNOW, and finally, what you can INFER based on the previous two things.

31. Thursday: Inferences • What facts/details do I see? (Observation) • What else do I know? (Knowledge) • What can I guess or imagine is happening, based upon 1 and 2? (Inference) 2. What can you infer with these details?

32. Thursday: Inferences • What facts/details do I see? (Observation) • What else do I know? (Knowledge) • What can I guess or imagine is happening, based upon 1 and 2? (Inference)

33. Thursday: Inferences • What facts/details do I see? (Observation) • What else do I know? (Knowledge) • What can I guess or imagine is happening, based upon 1 and 2? (Inference) 2. What can you infer with these details?

34. Thursday: Inferences • What facts/details do I see? (Observation) • What else do I know? (Knowledge) • What can I guess or imagine is happening, based upon 1 and 2? (Inference) 2. What can you infer with these details?

35. Thursday: Inferences • Work on inference worksheet. • Start popcorn reading In the Cyclops Cave. Finish reading and answer questions on the last page in your journal by Monday.

36. Daily Writing: Success 4/12/13 Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail: • “Always be yourself…do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” ~Bruce Lee • Try not to become a man of success, but…a man of value. ~Albert Einstein • “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” ~Winston Churchill

37. Friday: Quiz • No talking during the quiz! Please raise your hand when you’re done. • For sections B & C, go back to the text and underline/label where you found the answer. • When you’re done and I’ve collected your quiz: • Work on In the Cyclops Cave • Read silently Planner • Read Cyclops story & answer questions in your journal (journal title: Cyclops) due Monday.