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Agenda for January 24, 2012. Warm Up: Ellipsis to indicate omission In the Literature Book and your journal: Read and complete pages 894-895. “Graphic Aids,” “Adjust Reading Rate,” “Vocabulary in Context,” and “Background.”
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Agenda for January 24, 2012 • Warm Up: Ellipsis to indicate omission • In the Literature Book and your journal: • Read and complete pages 894-895. “Graphic Aids,” “Adjust Reading Rate,” “Vocabulary in Context,” and “Background.” • Read and complete the reading prompts, pages 897-901, “Over the Top.” • Answer questions 3,4,5,7 (unless you are specifically assigned 1,2,3,7) on page 902 and all questions on page 903. • QUIZ AND WORD MAPS DUE TOMORROW!
Warm Up • Imagine that you want to make a point about the number of soldiers who fought at Shiloh. Choose a portion of the following quotation to make your point and leave out irrelevant details. Use an ellipsis to indicate the omission. • “Beyond the thirty-three familiar shadows, forty thousand men, exhausted by nervous expectation, unable to sleep for romantic dreams of battles yet unfought, lay crazily askew in their uniforms.” -from The Drummer Boy of Shiloh
Warm Up • Answers may vary. Here is one possible answer. • “Beyond the thirty-three familiar shadows, forty thousand men…lay crazily askew in their uniforms.” -from The Drummer Boy of Shiloh
