Personal Narrative

Personal Narrative

Kernel Essay Prezi

PegWriting

Example of Memory Text Structure

Game Day REVIEW

Ultimate Kahoot!Literary Elements Kahoot!

Enjoy!

YOUR LYRICS~analysis

Your "Automatic" and/or "My Mama's Brokenheart is DUE TODAY.

Use the SIFT ANALYSIS STRATEGY to analyze/evaluate the song of your choice.

SIFT Method of Literary Analysis

Today we will be reviewing "Hotel California" by the Eagles.  We will then use the SIFT analysis Strategy to analyze and compare "Automatic" and My Mama's Heartbreak" by Miranda Lambert.  Later this week you will be using the same SIFT strategy to analyze and present your findings on a song of your choice.

Automatic

Mama's Broken Heart

Parts of Speech presentations

I can't wait to see what y'all have accomplished with your parts of speech presentations.

If time permits we will be looking at the SIFT strategy for analyzing literature and begin with poetry.

Happy Friday!

Figurative Language and music lyrics

Did you know that music is considered poetry?

SIFT video

Figurative Language definitions


Automatic by Miranda Lambert lyrics

Automatic video

Mama's Broken Heart by Miranda Lambert video

Mama's Broken Heart lyrics

Three (3) Week ASSESSMENT

Today you will be taking a 3-week ASSESSMENT.

Please take your time and answer each question carefully.  When you are finished, please work silently or you may read.

One suggestion is to work on your song lyrics for analysis.  You may send me the name and artist and I will print them out for you.

If you've already gotten your song lyrics you may work on vocabulary.com.

Make a great day!

Review and handwriting

Good Monday morning!

Today we will be answering any questions you may have about the TEST TOMORROW.

Also, you will receive a cursive handwriting handout and figurative language terms/definitions that you will need to place in your writing journal.

Your media project is due this FRIDAY.  

Please be looking for your song lyrics to analyze and send me the name of your favorite so that I may print the lyrics.

Make a great week!

Quizlets for The Lottery, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and The Rocking Horse Winner

Please practice the quizlets for the short stories we have read.

Short Story Quizlets

At the end of class we will discuss the test for NEXT TUESDAY.  Fun!!

We will be taking a 3-week test NEXT Tuesday September 15th.

~capitalization rules
~recognizing spelling errors (Use the dictionary)
~recognizing punctuation errors
~proof reading another paper/editing
~word choice
~commas
~coordinating conjunctions
~subordinating conjunction
There will be 10 questions!

The Rocking Horse Winner

TEXT VERSION The Rocking Horse Winner

(audio version below)
The Rocking Horse Winner

Kelly Gallapher AOW

Kelly Gallagher AOW

Follow the above link and compl)te a close reading strategy.

(1)  Read 2X.

(2) Mark your understanding or confusion with checks or questions marks.

(3) Class Discussion

(4) 1/2 page reflection.

Flocabulary Friday

We will be discussing similarities and differences between the two short stories we've read:

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Pierce.

We will also be watching The Week In Rap from Flocabulary
 
The Week in Rap

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Due to copier issues, you will be reading this online today.

An Occurrence at Owl  Creek Bridge

audio version from you tube

AUDIO An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

On the next clean page of your journal, you may take notes or note words, sentences, paragraphs or literary elements of interest.

We will be discussing this short story.


Videos
Video 1 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Video 2 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Quotes

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
                                                         ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Find at least two quotes that you feel could apply to your life and how you want to live it.

Only one of them may be a sports quote.

Pair and share with a neighbor.

Share with the class.

Kelley Gallagher AOW (Article of the Week

Please read the Kelley Gallagher AOW titled "America's Biker Gangs".  We will be doing a close read strategy as well as turn and talk with a partner about your reading.

GO!

America's Biker Gangs

CLOSE READING STRATEGY

1. First, read through article completely

2. Second read:

     *?? for things you are confused about or don't understand
     
     *check mark for things you find interesting or agree with

3. Turn and talk with a partner about the article once they are finished reading

4. Write a 1/2 page reflection. (it says on the hard copy 1-page, so thank me!)

Vocabulary and 1st writing for journal.

Today you received a slip of paper with a SAT vocabulary word on it. You will use this word to answer for attendance.  Also, make sure you have the word along with any others you recieve in class in your personal journal that you decorated last week.  Make sure you know the pronunciation, definition and can use it in a sentence.

You will each be choosing a picture that represents your thoughts, fears, joys and aspirations as a writer.  Choose something that represents YOU in the writing process as you are at present.  I will be sharing one of my own with you today as an example.  Volunteers will share, also.

WRITE ON!

THE LOTTERY by Shirley Jackson

Pre-Read activities

The Lottery PreRead


The Lottery by Shirley JacksonThe Lottery

Vocabulary
The Lottery VOCABULARY

The Lottery PREZI

PARTS OF SPEECH REVIEW

Continue with Six Word Memoirs

SIX WORD MEMOIR

#2 SIX WORD MEMOIR

Make sure your own personal SIX WORD MEMOIR has been turned in to Mrs. Davis.


Next up is review of the parts of speech.  THIS IS REVIEW-YOU SHOULD ALREADY KNOW THIS STUFF!



Parts of Speech REVIEW

PARTS OF SPEECH REVIEW

Six Word MEMOIR

First up, follow this link to vocabulary.com

vocabulary.com

Today we will begin working in your journals.  First and last name should go on the inside cover.  Begin numbering all your pages leaving the very first page blank.  The first page will be your table of contents.





At its core, the six-word memoir teaches us to be concise but also introspective.
  Students have to choose words precisely since they can't waste any. The six-word memoir teaches all of us writers a critical skill: words are valuable and have meaning -- don't waste them. 

Narrative Writing
Sports: “Indiana Player Knows How to Wow a Crowd”

Victor Oladipo, a 6-foot-5 junior who has blossomed from an undervalued recruit into a finalist for the Wooden Award, given to the nation’s top player, has helped Indiana (26-5) win its first outright Big Ten championship since 1993. The team is now in position to nab a No. 1 seed in the N.C.A.A. tournament, and Oladipo is becoming one of the best-known college basketball players in the nation.

Your Task: What six words would you choose if you had only that many to describe Victor Oladipo or tell a part of his story? “Believes in songs all the time”? “Basketball is pure rapture for him”? Play with this article by composing your own for practice, then compose a six-word descriptive piece about another athlete, past or present, famous or not. Think about what skills or personality traits make this person great and try to encapsulate those characteristics in six words that tell a very, very short story.

  


Please visit the following link to find out more about Six Word Memoirs.

 

6 WORD MEMOIRS

Now practice writing you own six (6) word memoir.

Welcome Back!

Welcome back!

Enjoy!

PROCEDURES AND RULES REVIEW:

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School Trivia

We WRITE

Preview of TOMORROW:

What six words would you pick to tell your life story?


Six Word Memoir

Welcome BACK!

I'm so privileged to be your teacher AGAIN! I'm sure you each have changed and so have I.  We will take a few minutes on the first day to talk about some of the changes since I've seen you in 8th grade!

I'm looking forward to seeing you Monday, August 24th.

Mrs. Davis