1. Language Arts - The House of the Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer
Chapter 13
4/13/18

2. Warm-up #1, 4/13

3. Warm-up #2, 4/13

4. Vocabulary Simile: a comparison using like or as
Ex: She is as pretty as a picture.
Metaphor: a direct comparison that states one thing is another. It is descriptive, not literal.
Ex. He is an animal on the soccer field does not mean that the boy is really an animal, but it is a metaphor for how he plays soccer.

5. Agenda, 4/13 Learning Target: HOTS quiz Milestone practice
Warm-up – grammar
HOTS Quiz (can write on quiz)
Milestone practice
Work independently; then class discussion
Grammar packet
HW – USA Test Prep. Due Friday, 4/13 (extended one day)
Learning Target:
HOTS quiz
Milestone practice

6. Take notes on First person and Third person in the margin of your handout

9. This is the real oasis that inspired Nancy Farmer to write about the oasis that Tam Lin shows Matt in the novel. It is the Quitobaquito Oasis in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona:

10. This is an artist’s rendering of the Ajo Mountains.