Reader’s Notebook

1. Reader’s Notebook Keep your notebook up to date and bring it to class every day.

2. Choose FOUR of these!!!! • Apply transitions • Use brushstrokes • Use expanded vocabulary • Know your comma rules • Use evidence and REASONS. • Add details • Add an anecdote • Add sensory details • Use fewer pronouns • Figurative Language How can YOU improve your writing?

3. DGP Test 10/30 • Extra Credit essay due 10/31 • Reader’s Notebook due 11/5 • Conjunction/ clause test….pending. • Complete Reflection #3 • Complete Toolkit examples. Agenda

4. You will write paragraph responses in your notebook EVERY WEEK. • You will keep a new TOOLKIT every four weeks. • You will keep a list of books you have read. Your notebook.

5. You will have a response list glued on the first page. • You will put the date on a response you have used and date the paragraph. • Mrs. Mahre will inform you if it a open choice or a required PROMPT. RESPONSE PROMPTS

6. Page One: response choices. • Page two-six= Talley Sheets • Page seven=WISH LIST • Page 8+ Paragraph responses. Notebook Guidelines

7. WISH LIST

8. Each week you will have at least ONE reading response. • All responses must be 5 to 8= sentences. • We apply the GO BLUE strategy. • Introduction sentence • Claim sentence • Detail sentence • Claim sentence • Detail sentence • Concluding sentence. Reading Responses:

9. The main character in 1963 is a brave and selfless man. Jake gave up his own safety to time travel back into the past to try and alter the present.If Jake can stop the assassination of JFK, then maybe the present as we know it will be improved. Jake has to endure many obstacles.For instance, the past is “obdurate”, meaning it does not want to be changed, so many difficulties pop up, such as criminal attacks, blow outs of tires, and trees falling into the road to block his advancement. Jake even endures physical injuries to reach his goal. Response Example Yellow/introduction/conclusionRed is claim Blue are details

10. Add examples to your Writer’s Toolbox EACH WEEK. • Brushstroke sentences(5) • Sensory details ( use 5 senses)(5) • Sentence using Abstract Noun (5) • Dialogue of interest/ expressions (what a character says.)(5) • Sentences using transitional elements • Vocabulary in Context • word----definition in your words(10 each 4 weeks) • Metaphor from story/ sentence. Writing Response Pages.

11. A ship on the sea of change, Esperanza lost her focus. • A snake in the grass, Luis waited for Esperanza to return home. • Esperanza’s eyes shined full of blue sparking jewels. The armed warrior of fear rode up to the porch with anger in his eyes. Metaphor from story

12. During the storm, Mary ran for the bathroom for cover. • Suddenly, James felt the spider’s prickly legs on his shoulder. • As Sam ran to answer the front door, he wondered if it was his best friend, Adam. Transitions in sentences

13. Action verbs are words that show action/ movement. • Mary ran down the road and tripped on a pothole. • You must underline 5 action verbs within 3-5 sentences Action Verbs

14. Sensory details evoke the five senses. Sight, sound, touch, smell, taste • Mary Grace felt the soft brush of the cat’s fur upon her cheek. • You must write five example sentences taken from a novel/story. Sensory Details

15. Concrete nouns are clearly visible to the naked eye. • The jalopy limped down the road, trailing thick, black smoke. • You must copy enough sentences to underline five concrete nouns. Concrete Nouns

16. Dialogue is what a character says, with HOW it is said(expression) • “Get off my bed!” James yelled to his black lab, “You are wet and covered in mud.” • Five lines with punctuation and varied expression(NOT SAID.) Dialogue

17. Write examples of the FIVE brushstrokes from your novel: REFER to your handout and LABEL the type. • Participle: • Adjectives Out of Order: • Appositive: • Absolute: Brushstrokes

18. The road led to a cul de sac, a circular turn around the building.- appositve • The road, bumpy and muddy, led to a circular turn around-adj, out of order. • The day before Mrs. Couch vanished, her third period biology students trudged into the classroom, silent as always. • Ears prickled, eyes unblinking, nostrils flared, he moved toward the building.-absolute Examples of Brushstrokes

19. Percy, the son of Poseidon, is in control of the ocean- appositive. • Waves of deep blue, scarlet, gold, and silver tumbled onto the counter. Adj. out of order • Hands burning, skin showing, I rose to prepare for school. ABSOLUTE • Isabel Scott kicked her legs, propelled herself to the ocean surface with a fight and a burst of adrenaline even as her lungs screamed for air. Participle

20. The cook passed the golden leather pouch to the young man, then a basket of oranges, followed by a crate of squawking chickens. ACTION VERB • Bouncing down the road, spinning around the curve, the jeep raced to Uncle Monty’s house. Participle.

21. Hannah began a gruesome, tale, about the walking dead, borrowing most of the characters, plot, and sound effects from the movie. Participle. • Myra, Patrick’s sister, boarded the ship with him. Appositive • Running on the deck, slipping on the wet boards, Patrick ran to the rails to watch the breaching whales, huge and barnacled. Adj. Out of Order

22. An abstract noun is a noun you cannot see but you know. YOU MUST USE A SENTENCE and underline the abstract noun. • Happiness, kindness, gratitude, honor, music, omen, beauty, energy, compassion • Endings/ suffixes for nouns= ness, tionsion, ty, sity, ment, en, ence, ledge, ry. Abstract nouns

23. These are words and their context definition. Figure out the meaning by the usage in the paragraph. • YOU NEED TEN from a novel. Context Vocabulary

24. Take out your novel. • Share one at a time in your table group: • Genre • Is it good? Why? • Write the name of an interesting shared novel in your Wish List. (Title and author) Wish List Round Robin