Language Arts Agenda for Sept. 11, 2012

1. Language Arts Agenda for Sept. 11, 2012 • 1st : Retrievenotebook and open ticket container. • 2nd: Write HW in Agenda: - • No HW • 3rd: Begin Writing Warm-up Date: 9-11-12 Prompt: Can you tell if someone is listening to you talk? How do you feel if you are ignored? List three ways you can show others that you are interested in what they are saying.

2. Language Arts Sept. 11, 2012 Opener: Share Warm-ups Lesson: • PPT: Review Figurative Language from Connect Four game. • Finish HIPSOMA Poems. If you finish early add 3 pictures. • Done with poem and pictures? Print in color in media center then pair up and play Connect Four Game: Figurative Language. Closer : Share your poem with the class.

3. Figurative Language Resource • Hyperbole: An obvious exaggeration. Sometimes it is confused with a simile or metaphor. (Example: Mrs. Jones gives tons of homework.) • Idiom: a phrase or expression that means something different from what the words actually say. (Example: It is raining cats and dogs.) • Personification: Giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea. (Example: The pencil danced across the [paper.) • Simile: Compares two things that are unlike but have some qualities in common. It does use the words like or as. (My nose is red like a cherry. My nose is as red as a cherry.) • Onomatopoeia: The use of words whose sounds echo their meaning. (Example: The bee went buzz.) • Metaphor: Compares two things that are unlike but have the same qualities in common. It doesnot use the words like or as. (Example: The tree is a ballerina in green.) • Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of word. (Example: The wild woolly walrus waits and wonders when we’ll walk by.)

4. Simile Describing something by comparing it with something else, e.g. as fast as a cheetah, or fast like a cheetah Metaphor Describing something by saying it IS something else, e.g. the road was a gypsy’s ribbon Personification Describing a thing/ object by giving it human-like qualities, e.g. UEFA cup leaves police puzzled. Alliteration Using two or more words/ sounds in a sentence that start with the same letter, e.g. Police puzzled in Paris!

5. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

6. Simple vs. Compound Sentences • What is the difference?

7. Simple Sentences • A simple sentence contains a ________________ and a _______________. • It can stand all by itself. It is independent which means it does not have to depend on anything else. Therefore we call it an • _________________________________ clauses.

8. Compound Sentences A compound sentence is made up of two _________________________________ clauses.

9. Compound Sentences There are two types of compound sentences. One contains a ___________________________ conjunction that separates the independent clauses. We remember these conjunctions by calling them _________________________________.

10. Compound Sentences We remember the coordinating conjunctions by calling them FANBOYS. F = ___________________________________ A= ___________________________________ N= ___________________________________ B= ___________________________________ O= ___________________________________ Y= ___________________________________ S= ___________________________________

11. Compound Sentences When we use a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS) in a compound sentence, we place a __________________________ in front of it. , FANBOYS

12. Compound Sentences • Another way to represent a compound sentence is to use a __________________________________ between the two independent sentences. ;

13. Practice: Simple vs. Compound Sentences Practice worksheet. Finish for HW.

14. Elements of Poetry Stanza = a group of lines, usually similar in length and pattern. Many stanzas in poems are divided by a _________________________. They look very much like a ________________________________ in a book. Each stanza usually talks about one ___________________.

15. Elements of Poetry Verse = a single _______________________ of a poem. It may be a complete __________________________, but must of the time it is a sentence ___________________________.

16. Elements of Poetry “Lighting a Fire” by X. J. Kennedy One quick scratch of a kitchen match And giant flames unzip! How do they store So huge a roar In such a tiny tip?

17. Elements of Poetry How many stanzas? _________________ How many verses?__________________ The three lines (verses) in each stanza make up a single __________________________. And each stanza contains its own main _____________________.

18. Elements of Poetry • RHYME = a repetition of ____________________________________ at the end of words. (i.e. bleak and streak rhyme).

19. Elements of Poetry RHYTHM = sound pattern created by stressed and unstressed syllables. Stressed syllables receive more emphasis than unstressed syllables. i.e. “The morns are meeker than they were,”

20. I AM Poem I AM (my 1st stanza) • I AM caring and understanding. • I WONDER what the homeless people do. • I HEAR sleigh bells ringing. • I SEE a snowman dancing. • I WANT peace on our Earth. • I AM caring and understanding.

21. I AM Poem I AM (my 2nd stanza) • I PRETEND to be a robot walking around. • I FEEL like a bird that is flying. • I can TOUCH the moon. • I WORRY about my nieces and nephews. • I CRY about the unfairness in the world. • I AM caring and understanding.

22. I AM Poem I AM (my 3rd stanza) • I PRETEND to be a robot walking around. • I FEEL like a bird that is flying. • I can TOUCH the moon. • I WORRY about my nieces and nephews. • I CRY about the unfairness in the world. • I AM caring and understanding.

23. I AM Poem I AM (my 4th stanza) • I UNDERSTAND how other people feel. • I SAY be nice to each other. • I DREAM about children laughing. • I TRY to be fair to other people. • I HOPE others will find happiness. • I AM caring and understanding

24. Adding Pics To I AM Poem