1. Agenda: Vocabulary Review (in Journal) Informative Essay Task Get your journals please

2. Vocabulary Review consensus agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole consensus Cleopatra beautiful and charismatic queen of Egypt; mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony; killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian (69-30 BC) Cleopatra interlude an intervening period or episode interlude sonar a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return sonar subtlety a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude subtlety deja vu the experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before deja vu

3. Vocabulary Review incendiary capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily incendiary ominous threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments ominous redeem restore the honor or worth of redeem denizen a person who inhabits a particular place denizen

4. Your Task Using your Venn-diagram and the text “My Life as a Bat” on page 71 – review the facts! Then you will write an informative essay to determine whether the story details of “My Life as a Bat” are factually accurate with the facts you collected from the “Fun Bat Facts” audio. You must incorporate at least 5 of the vocab words in your informative essay.

5. An informative essay, also known as an expository essay, gives the reader detailed information about a specific topic. Informative/expository essays are usually written in five paragraphs. Informative = Expository

6. What Informative/Expository Writing Looks Like Five paragraphs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! First paragraph: Introduction States the thesis and the main things you’ll talk about in the Body Second, Third, Fourth paragraphs: Body HUGE amounts of detail, fact, and example Fifth paragraph: Conclusion Nicely summarizes everything

7. Overview on the Writing Process 1. Take a deep breath, yo. 2. Start with what you know—I promise you already know a lot. Then review your research or look through the text to fill in the gaps. 3. Brainstorm using a graphic organizer (You already made a Venn- daigram), write out ideas, maybe make an outline. 4. Write a draft. TOMORROW’s process: 1. Revise with a friend. We will do peer editing. 2. Rewrite. Again…deep breaths. 3. Edit, proofread, check spelling, grammar, etc. 4. Turn in, on time, your last draft. Consider yourself a writer.

8. SLAM Writing  S - State the Question or Prompt & Answer  Introduction  L - Locate Evidence from the text to Support your answer  Body  A - Add additional evidence (your OPINION)  Body  L&A (Repeat process 3 TIMES total!)  M - Meaningfully Conclude  Conclusion

9. Tips on Expository/Informative Writing  It should be fact-based.  Facts can be quotes, statistics, definitions, names, dates, events.  It should be formal.  Remember who your reader is (the teacher!).  Use examples.  Explain what you mean.  Don’t be overwhelmed. You have a lot of valuable stuff to say. Your teachers want to read it.

10. Essay Requirements You are writing this in class. You will leave this in your portfolio. Upon entering class tomorrow, get your essay so we can peer review. This is formative – but AWESOME practice for the VLT. You must cite at least 5 pieces of evidence from either source and remember to use citing introductions (see PROVE IT!).

11.  My Life as a Bat Word Cloud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGF7rr0aa6s Write the facts you hear!