January 7, 2013As a group, quickly brainstorm

all types of figurative language and examples on

your poster paper.

Now, let’s read Owl Moon and evaluate why you think the author chose the words she did and discuss her sentence structure.

January 7, 2013Grammar Review: Complete Pride Parkway and find the clause…is it

adjective or adverb?

Yesterday, my cat fell into a bowl of

cream that she had been delicately

licking with her sweet pink tongue!

January 7, 2013Grammar Review: Complete Pride Parkway and find the clause…is it

adjective or adverb?After she was drenched in milk, she

stalked into the hallway and dripped

white drops of cream as she swiftly

sped away from the debacle.

Mood or Tone?

January 7, 2013Grammar Review: Complete Pride Parkway and find the clause…is it

adjective or adverb?Later that same evening, she, who had

been coated in white frothy creamery,

sashayed into the living room like

royalty!

January 7, 2013Grammar Review: Complete Pride Parkway and find the clause…is it

adjective or adverb?It was clear to all present from her

snooty demeanor that she was finished

with her humiliation as she had

reverted back to her normal queenly self!

January 7, 2013Bathroom Break!Homework: Return signed forms: report card, goal planner, and novel permission slip.

January 7, 2013Reading Focus: Author’s Purpose and Key Details

Read the following words: integrate, prejudiced, superb, petition, retaliated, and dignity. Brainstorm in your group what they mean. Based on these words, what do you think our story will be about?

January 7, 2013Reading Focus: Author’s Purpose and Key Details

When did Jackie Robinson play baseball? Are there any clues in this picture?

http://www.learn360.com/ShowVideo.aspx?SearchText=jackie+robinson&lid=6818736&MediaFormat=3360063&ID=324689

Clues to time period

Interesting Facts

Current News

January 7, 2013Reading Focus: Author’s Purpose and Key Details

First Draft Reading:Turn to page 167 in your Reader’s Notebook and silently read through the story “Jackie Robinson: Justice at Last.”http://

www.history.com/topics/jackie-robinson/videos#jackie-robinson-changes-the-face-of-america

What do you know about Jackie Robinson?

January 7, 2013Reading Focus: Author’s Purpose and Key Details

Second Draft Reading:Analyze author’s purpose and their use of key details to express their purpose.

http://vimeo.com/5283826

January 7, 2013Reading Focus: Author’s Purpose and Key Details

Third Draft Reading:Name three difficult situations that Jackie Robinson faced. How did he overcome them. Discuss with group.

http://www.scholastic.com/breakingbarriers/teachers/

January 7, 2013Reading Focus: Breaking Barriers Essay Contest Preview

Write an essay about a barrier that you have faced. Explain how you faced this barrier by using one or more of Jackie Robinson’s Nine Values:

Courage, persistence, justice, determination, integrity, commitmentTeamwork, excellence, citizenship

http://www.scholastic.com/breakingbarriers/teachers/

Each person in your group pick one of the words from above and brainstorm what it means…give examples…use in a sentence…and complete a circle map…

January 7, 2013Reading Focus: Breaking Barriers Essay Contest

Official Rules. Each essay should be at least 200 words long and not exceed 700 words

in length. Limit one entry per student. All essays must be factual and based on the student's real-life experience. Fictional stories will be disqualified. Online entries will also be subject to the Scholastic.com Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Be thinking about a real life experience you have had! We will begin working on this

essay tomorrow!

January 7, 2013Figuring out Figurative Language!

http://vimeo.com/12236342

http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=87422

January 7, 2013Figuring out Figurative Language!

Dreams

Hold fast to dreamsFor if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged birdThat cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreamsFor when dreams goLife is a barren fieldFrozen with snow.

~By Langston Hughes

• Notice the short, packed lines, and strong, simple nouns and verbs.

• Repetition of the first line emphasizes the importance of its meaning.

• How easy this poem would be to memorize.

January 7, 2013Figuring out Figurative Language!Harlem (2)

What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a sore—And then run?Does it stink like rotten meat?Or crust and sugar over—like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sagslike a heavy load.Or does it explode?

~By Langston Hughes

• Notice the tone and intensity of the metaphors: negative in the extreme, each conveying a different kind of destruction.

• Strong sensory verbs.• How the questions

build momentum and power.

• How the italics of the last line convey fury.

January 7, 2013

SSR!

Jackie Robinson’s mother reads about her son’s

exploits on the ball field!