Day 1: No Computers today. Bell Ringer (3 mins to share!)

1. Day 1: No Computers today.Bell Ringer (3 mins to share!) • Take out your homework. Share with your group your character trait for yourself, and share your reasons for this trait.

2. Lesson Goal and Lesson Question • Goal: Students will understand the different sentence structure: simple sentence. • Question: What makes a simple sentence?

3. Type 2 (5 mins) • What do you think? Do we need heroes today? Why or why not? Please write your main idea as your first sentence followed with two reasons that we need or do not need heroes, highlighted. Explain your reasons! Use TDEDEC

4. Story Time! (2 mins) • In front of you is a story. With your group figure out what is the action for each sentence. Please highlight pink. Then figure out what is doing that action in each sentence. Please highlight green. • Story: Mrs. Thompson ran to the store. She needed chocolate chips! She was baking gooey brownies for her friends tonight! The kind friends loved to eat them. They all said they were the best she ever had. Her secret ingredient was a tablespoon of instant espresso.

5. Subjects and Predicates! (4 mins) • What you just did is highlighted the subject and predicate of each sentence. These are what makes up the sentence. • So, • The predicate is the action or what the subject is doing. It is usually a verb • The subject is what is doing the action or what the sentence is about. • These can be short or long: • He ran. • The sweet children danced all night long.

6. Simple vs. Complete (3 mins) • A simple subject is one word: Henry, She, It, Ron, food. • A complete subject has more information, sometimes an adjective: sweet children, green food, tall animal. • In the same way, a simple predicate is one word: walked, said, plays, wept. • A complete predicate gives us more detail about what is being done: walked around the track, plays outside. • However, we need both a subject and predicate (verb) to have a complete sentence.

7. Examples and non-Examples (3 mins)

8. Your turn (20 mins) • There are five stations. You will have three-four minutes at each stations. Some are competitions and some are INTENSE studying! Do your best! When I say go please start your desk, your first station. Then when I yell switch move to the group to the left to a new station until you return to your group. Read the directions at each station to do your best and ask for help if you need it! Have your recorder record the information unless it is individual. • Stations: School house rock story making! Go for the Gold Game! Card Game! Intense studying! Tree diagraming!

9. Reflection (2 mins) • Please take this time to finish filling in your conventions guide sheet with examples and non-examples. As a reflection please fill in the rating of how you feel about subjects and predicates after today. Put that rating on a post-it, and please place it on the ticket out the door paper. Two minutes! When you are done pack up and show me you are ready to read by silently sitting at your seat.

10. Reading time! • Let’s start reading from our class time book! Please find the spot you want to sit in while we read.