Welcome to DAY 7!

Thank you for writing the assignment in your planner.

Please take out the following:

Envelope

Finished note cards

Pencil

Due Monday: sentence patterns

Exhausted hiker: “I am so

glad to see you! I’ve been

lost for three days!”

Other hiker: “Well, don’t

get too excited. I’ve been

lost for a week!”

Are you tired of the word “Iditarod”?

• When writing your rough draft and final paper, you must be cautious to not overuse words.

• In this project, it would be quite easy to

use the word “Iditarod” or “it” a gazillion times.

Today we are going to complete a Synonym Subject Form to help us prevent the overuse of these words.

• Whether you are on schedule with your project or not, you need to complete this form with the class right now.

• Keep this form in your envelope to refer to as you are completing your outline and typing your rough draft.

• This form needs to be turned in as part of the final project.

Makenzi Timmons

Ms. Timmons

3/2/18 6R

Iditarod

race event

trail course

competition occasion

route tradition

town sport

thrilling race

sled dog competition

tough trail

challenging event

challenging challenge

thrilling thrill

surviving survival

chasing chase

struggling struggle

battling battle

pursuing pursuit

sprinting sprint

Synonym Subject Form

• You will need to use at least three other

words in your paper in place of Iditarod.

• Use the list we just made as you create your

sentences (on Monday).

• Fold your synonym subject form (hotdog

style—tall & skinny!) and keep it in your

envelope.

Please put your subject synonym

form in your envelope!

Next up: organizing our note

cards!

Sorting the Note Cards

PUT YOUR PENCILS DOWN! 1. Sort your cards into piles by colors.

Each color is one paragraph in your paper.

2. Sort the cards in each pile.

Each card is a sentence in that paragraph.

Put these cards in an order that makes the best paragraph.

3. Put the piles (colors) in order.

Make one stack.

4. Number the cards.

Use the circle in the upper right corner.

Number them this way:

1-10 for a two topic project (C contract)

1-15 for a three topic project (B contract)

1-20 for a four topic project (A contract)

Please put your note cards

on your desk.

Next up: sentence patterns!

Sentence Patterns Look at this RANDOM sample note card for

another topic:

Sentence Patterns Information from that note card is now written

this way:

Sentence Patterns

Each note card is a sentence and could be

written in several ways. We could use

different patterns.

2-1-4-3: A shiny and hard marble is like a piece of glass that

has been melted and cooled.

4-2-1-3: Like a piece of glass, the shiny, hard marble was

melted and cooled.

1-3-4-2: The marble, melted and cooled, looks like a piece of

glass that is shiny and hard.

Sentence Pattern

All you

have to

do is write

the

numbers

at the top!

1 2 MT

serum delivered in 127 hours

Serum Run

prevent diphtheria epidemic

3-2-4-1

relay team

Simply write the numbers at the top to show

what order you want to use! THAT’S IT!!

3-2-4-1 =

In order to prevent a

diphtheria epidemic,

mushers delivered serum

in 127 hours, much like a

relay team, in the Serum

Run.

Goals for Monday:

• You need to write sentence pattern

numbers at the top of TWO note

cards for EACH color.

• The other three cards do NOT need

sentence patterns (these will be your short sentences)!

– If you have two topics (colors) = 4 patterns

– If you have three topics (colors) = 6 patterns

– If you have four topics (colors) = 8 patterns

• Your note cards MUST be done!

• On Monday we’ll start the topic outline!