SSR—Even minions read!!!

Is it time to use the bathroom, yet???

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What do you notice? The book on the bathroom floor is swollen from shower steam. The book on the bathroom floor is swollen from shower steam. Which book? The one on the bathroom floor! Which book? The one on the bathroom floor! The sweet potatoes in the vegetable bin are green with mold. The sweet potatoes in the vegetable bin are green with mold. Which sweet potatoes? The ones forgotten in the vegetable bin! Which sweet potatoes? The ones forgotten in the vegetable bin! The note from Beverly confessed that she had eaten the leftover pizza. The note from Beverly confessed that she had eaten the leftover pizza. Which note? The one from Beverly! Which note? The one from Beverly!

Invitation to Write Create 3 sentences in your composition book about a minion!!! Be sure to include your prepositional phrases!!!

Autobiography vs. Biography What are the characteristics of a biography and an autobiography?

Essential Questions  What are the characteristics of autobiographies and biographies?

Set   We will be looking at two readings.   They are both very similar, but they are both different as well.   Be on the look out for the difference.

Set Aunt Cindy was a big part of Jane’s childhood. Jane and her parents visited Aunt Cindy at least once a month. She remembers many visits to Aunt Cindy’s tiny, dark apartment. It was very quiet in that building– maybe because tenants were not allowed to have children or pets. In spite of that, Aunt Cindy found a way to express her love for animals; she spent days working at an animal shelter near her home, and scouting out alleyways for strays and finding them homes. READING 1

Set Aunt Cindy was a big part of my childhood. My parents and I visited her at least once a month. I remember many visits to Aunt Cindy’s tiny, dark apartment. It was very quiet in that building– maybe because tenants were not allowed to have children or pets. In spite of that, my Aunt Cindy found a way to express her love for animals; she spent days working at an animal shelter near her home, and scouting out alleyways for strays and finding them homes. READING 2

Set   Think: How are the two readings alike and how are they different?   Pair: Turn to the person next to you and share the ways that the two readings are alike and different.   Share: Volunteers to share with the class.

Autobiography 1. The main character is the author 2. It recounts the key incidents in the writer’s life. 3. It is written in first person point of view. 4. It reveals the writer’s feelings, reactions, values, and goals.

Let’s Review #1 Aunt Cindy was a big part of my childhood. My parents and I visited her at least once a month. I remember many visits to Aunt Cindy’s tiny, dark apartment. It was very quiet in that building– maybe because tenants were not allowed to have children or pets. In spite of that, my Aunt Cindy found a way to express her love for animals; she spent days working at an animal shelter near her home, and scouting out alleyways for strays and finding them homes. * What clues tell us that the first reading was an autobiography?

Let’s Review #1: Autobiography Aunt Cindy was a big part of my childhood. My parents and I visited her at least once a month. I remember many visits to Aunt Cindy’s tiny, dark apartment. It was very quiet in that building– maybe because tenants were not allowed to have children or pets. In spite of that, my Aunt Cindy found a way to express her love for animals; she spent days working at an animal shelter near her home, and scouting out alleyways for strays and finding them homes.

Biography 1. It tells about a real person. 2. It shows that the writer knows a lot about this person. 3. It describes the person’s environment. 4. It shows how the person affects other people. 5. It states or implies how the writer feels about the person. 6. It is written in the third person point of view.

Let’s Review #2 Aunt Cindy was a big part of Jane’s childhood. Jane and her parents visited Aunt Cindy at least once a month. She remembers many visits to Aunt Cindy’s tiny, dark apartment. It was very quiet in that building– maybe because tenants were not allowed to have children or pets. In spite of that, Aunt Cindy found a way to express her love for animals; she spent days working at an animal shelter near her home, and scouting out alleyways for strays and finding them homes. * What clues tell us that the first reading was an biography?

Let’s Review #2- Biography Aunt Cindy was a big part of Jane’s childhood. Jane and her parents visited Aunt Cindy at least once a month. She remembers many visits to Aunt Cindy’s tiny, dark apartment. It was very quiet in that building– maybe because tenants were not allowed to have children or pets. In spite of that, Aunt Cindy found a way to express her love for animals; she spent days working at an animal shelter near her home, and scouting out alleyways for strays and finding them homes.

Autobiography/Biography Wax Museum Project  You will check out a book tomorrow and begin researching a person for the Wax Museum.  As you read your book, you will need to write down very important facts about that person and cite the source of your evidence. We will discuss this tomorrow!!

Exit Ticket   Use your sticky note to complete the exit ticket.   We are doing a 3-2-1… using the following slide, complete the questions.   Turn it into the blue bin when you are finished.

Summarizer  THREE  3. Write THREE sentences that compare and contrast biographies and autobiographies.  TWO  2. Write the definitions for biography and autobiography (you have TWO definitions).  ONE  1. What would you prefer to read? Biography or Autobiography? Write ONE reason in a complete sentence as to why you prefer the one over the other.

The Polynesians were a sea people. Having no metals, they developed seaworthy sailing canoes built with stone tools and assembled with lashings of braided rope. These they navigated without instruments over an ocean which was their own and sailed an ocean so vast that it covers half the globe. Here they explored and settled an area equal to the area of the combined continents of North and South America, a vast triangle stretching from New Zealand to Hawaii to Easter Island, and they accomplished this before European exploration began.

Polynesian Navigation

Their food plants, domesticated animals, and language have been traced to an ultimate origin in Southeast Asia, where Proto- Polynesians may have been displaced by war-like peoples, possibly invaders from China, and Forced to sea. Finds of ancient artifacts, including pottery remnants of distinctive design, mark a route along the southern edge of Melanesia, and areas of islands inhabited earlier by black peoples.

Some believed that groups of Proto-Polynesians sailed northward from this route into what is now Central and Eastern Micronesia. Those who continued eastward into the Pacific discovered The uninhabited islands of Samoa and the eastern Islands in the Fiji Group at some time before 1,1000 B.C.. Here from perhaps only a few clans, they flourished for over a thousand years in isolation, evolving the physical and cultural traits of the Polynesians.

Page 10 “True! Hikueru is too poor. There are only the fish from the sea. A man must be fearless to provide food.” Poor is a synonym for infertile. Atoll - a ring-shaped reef, island, or chain of islands formed of coral.

SettingSetting Details that describe: Furniture Furniture Scenery Scenery Customs Customs Transportation Transportation Clothing Clothing Dialects Dialects Weather Weather Time Time of day of year Time and place are where the action occurs

Elements of a Setting As you read any story, think about the setting and what information you know.

The Functions of a Setting  To create a mood or atmosphere  To show a reader a different way of life  To make action seem more real  To be the source of conflict or struggle  To symbolize an idea We left the home place behind, mile by slow mile, heading for the mountains, across the prairie where the wind blew forever. At first there were four of us with one horse wagon and its skimpy load. Pa and I walked, because I was a big boy of eleven. My two little sisters romped and trotted until they got tired and had to be boosted up to the wagon bed. That was no covered Conestoga, like Pa’s folks came West in, but just an old farm wagon, drawn by one weary horse, creaking and rumbling westward to the mountains, toward the little woods town where Pa thought he had an old uncle who owned a little two-bit sawmill. Taken from “The Day the Sun Came Out” by D. Johnson

What can we learn about Geography from… ? Illustrate a theme of geography from one of the scenes.