Day 22 – DO IO Introduction, Author’s Perspective, Grammar Quiz

Objectives Analyze author’s purpose in a nonfiction text. Understand and Identify Predicate Nominative and Predicate Adjective in a sentence. Homework: Study Vocab: Quiz Monday

Agenda Warm Up Grammar Quiz PA-PN Introduction Author’s Perspective Poems Closure

Warm up Watch Me! Watch the following video. Take notes on the tone that the President displays towards gun violence. Write the author’s, or orator’s, perspective on gun violence. Using the author’s perspective, what is the author’s purpose for giving this speech? -To Inform - To Entertain -To Express -To Persuade How do you know? (Write a 1-2 sentence explanation). Watch Me!

DO IO Quiz Remove everything from your desk except for a pencil and highlighter Sign on and take the quiz. When finished, flip your work over and work on close reading. NO talking.

Practice In your pairs, download the IO sheet and identify: Prepositional Phrases Verb Phrases Subjects DO IO When finished, submit the document and turn it in through classroom. Whatever you don’t finish, is homework.

1.  Lisa made her boyfriend a homemade card for his birthday. 2.  Sawyer gave his brother a dollar for a candy bar. 3.  Sylvia wrote her teacher a letter of appreciation. 4.  I stole my brother’s money from this wallet and gave him Monopoly money in its place. 5.  Prehistoric animals have left us messages about ancient times. 6.  At museums, tour guides show visitors huge skeletons of dinosaurs. 7.  These skeletons offer the world evidence of ancient life. 8.  Fossils provide scientists with even better specimens for study. 9.  Natives of the North gave a museum a frozen Mammoth. 10.  Fossils give us information about ancient changes in climate.

11.  Fossil footprints have given experts a great deal of information. 12.  Study of some footprints can tell an observer the size of the dinosaur. 13.  The museum charges people $20 to see various fossils. 14.  I asked Grandpa many questions about his past. 15.  On the soccer field, the player gave the ball a strong kick. 16.  The farmer fed his pigs mush. 17.  Janice told Lynn a secret. 18.  Tom ordered us pizzas for the tailgate party. 19.  The boss gave his staff a lecture about office safety. 20.  The principal gave the freshman class a special treat.

Girls Vs Boys

Individually Download a copy of the poems. Read the poems and annotate for author’s perspective. Annotate examples of tone, details, language, and the title. Below the readings, compare and contrast the perspectives present in the readings. How did they affect the purpose? What is the author’s purpose? Annotate words or groupings of words that demonstrate author’s purpose. Use one sentence in the margin to explain how these words contribute to the purpose.

Get into your pairs! Compare your annotations. What was each poem about? What was the author’s perspective in each? How did that influence the purpose? What is the tone the author takes towards girls or boys? Give evidence through annotations.

Synthesis – Answer the following in a google doc and submit What is the author’s purpose in each work? How do you know? In “Hanging Fire”, what does the author think about girls and their lives? How much time has passed from the beginning of the poem to the end? In “Fifteen”, what does the author think about boys and their aspirations or thoughts? Which poem illustrates what it’s like to be a boy or girl the best? Why?

Closure 3, 2, 1 Write: 3 things you have learned about author’s perspective. 2 examples of PA or PN. 1 question you still have regarding today’s lesson.