2. September 15, 2011

3.  Complete your word families chart. Pd 2  Create Acrostic Poems- pd 1 & 3

4.  Periods 3 Introduction

5. Be an active listener and copy down the notes. Ask and answer questions. Raise your hand none. Make sure you SLANT- sit up, lean in, ask questions, nod Your head and take notes.

6. Run-on sentences join two or more complete sentences with no punctuation.

7.  Read the sentence out loud listening for where pauses should be (when you should breathe) Example: Michaela loves to draw horses she is a talented artist. Michaela loves to draw horses. She is a talented artist. These are both complete sentences. This is a run-on.

8.  Remember : The length of a sentence really has nothing to do with whether a sentence is a run-on or not; even a very short sentence could be a run-on. The books are heavy don’t carry them. The books are heavy.Don’t carry them.

9.  When two clauses are connected by only a comma, they are a run-on sentence that is called a comma-splice. The books are heavy, don’t carry them.

10. 1. Think Comma (,) + FANBOYS Join the two sentences with a comma and then a conjunction (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So) Example: He likes cars, and he likes airplanes too.

11. 2. Use a semicolon (;) when you do not have a connecting word(or your connecting word is not one of the FANBOYS). Example: He likes cars; he likes airplanes too.

12. 3. Use a period and split your run-on up into separate sentences. Example: He likes cars. He likes airplanes too.

13.  Pd 2- Correct the run-ons on your worksheet.  Pd 1&3 – Grammar Workbooks p. 123-124  We will go over these shortly.

14. Work on your written assignment until it is complete. None. Whisper voices only with the teacher. Raise your hand. I will come to you. Sharpening pencils or getting tissue is ok. Work actively the entire allotted time. Do not disturb others. Get instructions clarified as needed by the teacher.

15. Be an active listener and copy down the notes. Ask and answer questions. Raise your hand none. Make sure you SLANT- sit up, lean in, ask questions, nod Your head and take notes.

16.  DRAPES is an acronym for six elaboration strategies.  D- dialogue  R-Rhetorical Question  A- Analogy  P- Personal Experience  E- example  S- statistic

17. My dad said, “It’s a free country! Wear what you want.” Use a quote from the prompt given to you on the writing test. If you want to use a different quote you have heard before you can always say “ A wise man once said…” Proverbs can be used here.

18.  What difference does it make?  Rhetorical questions can remain unanswered because the answer is obvious.

19.  Not wearing a hat to school is like going to school half-dressed.  This is where you compare your topic to something else.

20.  It was raining Monday. I wore my hat, forgot to take it off and got in trouble. That’s not fair. Use real experiences or make them up to prove your point.

21.  Kids want to express their individuality by wearing hats.  Give another reason to support your thesis.

22.  Ninety-Five percent of students at this school would wear hats and sunglasses if they could.  You can make up statistics but don’t be unrealistic. Real statistics are even better. You can also use terms like “More than half, Almost all, Many of, and Only a few…”

23.  In groups write a set of DRAPES based on the situation on your card.  Write your DRAPES on the chart paper provided.  You may work in groups of 3-5.

24. Create a nonlinguistic representation of culture or multiculturalism to share with the class. Prepare to present. Quiet voices with your partner(s) or the teacher only. Help each other. If you need more assistance, Raise your hand And I will come to you. As needed for materials and to create. Complete all parts of the activity. Keep sidebars to a minimum.

25. In your notebook, write a DRAPES about using humor in writing. Think about the three types of humor we learned this week and the folktales we read.

26. By Mark Mathabane

28. Born on October 8, 1960 in Alexandra, South Africa Birth name is Johannes Mathabane Father’s name was Jackson Mathabane Mother’s Name was Magdalene Mathabane Father emigrated from the tribal reserves in South Africa to Alexandra looking for work Mother forced him to go to school, even though his father beat her for it His grandmother took him to work (a white person’s house) one day, and this changed his life He learned how to play tennis, and was the first black person from South Africa to play in an International tournament. He came to America in 1978 on a tennis scholarship.

29.  Alexandra was a one-square-mile ghetto outside of Johannesburg.  Over 150,000 people lived in Alexandra in the 1960’s  Johannes’ house was a 15 by 15 square shack  Johannes and his six siblings slept under the kitchen table on cardboard until he was 10.  Currently, the township covers 3.1 square miles, has 470,000 people, and over 20,000 shacks.

30.  Kaffir is of Arabic origin, means infidel, and is a very derogatory word.  The book was published in 1986 in America  Johannes changed his first name to Mark to protect his family still in South Africa  Oprah read the book and had Mark and his family on her show to promote the book in 1986.  It is on the list of the most banned books in the U.S.

31. Married Gail in 1987; wrote a book called Love in Black and White about inter-racial marriages Has three children: Bianca, Nathan, and Stanley Moved from Kernersville, NC to Portland, Oregon in 2004

32. p. 185-190 in textbook

33. Answer questions 1- 15 on p. 190 in your notebook. You may work with a partner.

34. Study for test Friday!