Ms. Allen’s Reading Corner

MONDAY:

Warm Up: Read (501), take notes, and complete “Quickwrite.”  1/2 page minimum
Classwork: Introduce and explain vocabulary units and weekly procedures. Guidelines and word lists for the first semester have been distributes. The vocabulary #2 written assignment is as follows:         (8.2.tpi.9,10)

Yarns and tall tales:  Stories told in common language about impossible happenings.  Select a theme from one of the following or create a tall tale topic of your own and stretch it into an outrageous and unbelievable yarn:

• How an elephant’s trunk became the first fire truck.
• How a dinosaur’s sneeze started breezes.
• How a granfather’s clock became the first wristwatch.
• How an anteater invented the first trumpet.
• How a ticklebone was discovered.
• How a spider became a spider monkey.
• How a hole became the Grand Canyon.

Be imaginative and use specific details.  Your tall tale should be told from third-person point of view, written in a simple dialect, and contain exaggeration.  Your tale’s hero or protagonist should be “larger than life.”  DUE WEDNESDAY. FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES IN YOUR BINDER.

Read “They Have Yarns” (496-497), “Pecos Bill and the Mustang” (502-505), and “Paul Bunyan” (507-508).  Then complete the following written assignment in CRS: Answer ?’s 1-3 & “Creative Writing” #2 (499) and ?’s 1-6 (509).  Turn in by period’s end.  If time, begin working on vocabulary #2 written assignment.
Homework: Study for Tuesday’s quiz over humor and today’s tall tales.  Work on vocabulary #2 written assignment (due Wednesday).

TUESDAY:

Warm Up: Complete the story-related “Daily Oral Language” on overhead.      (8.3.spi.1,2,9)
Classwork: Take quiz over humor and Monday’s tall tales.  Complete hyperbole activity (handout).
Homework: Work on vocabulary #2 written assignment (due Wednesday).     (8.2.tpi.9,10)

WEDNESDAY:

Warm Up:  None
Classwork: Review vocabulary #2 in groups using written assignments. (8.2.tpi.9,10)       Begin watching Johnny Appleseed.
Homework: Study vocabulary #2 for Thursday’s quiz.

THURSDAY:

Fall Break!!

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