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Skill or Objective: Recognize a variety of types of descriptive

language (tone, mood, irony, imagery, alliteration, onomatopoeia).

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Partnered Research/Write Use an index card to write your paragraph.

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Must make 80%+ if not then retake immediately. www.brainpop.com User name: Sarasotamidteacher Password: Sarasota 1. Parallel Structure_____ 2. Sentence Fragments _____ 3. Run-on Sentences _____ 4. Punctuation ______ 10 minutes FCAT Explorer ______ Please choose a topic to research. Gather 4 facts and 4 opinions about each topic. Use at least 2 sources although 3-5 is preferred. Answer your chosen topic question in a 1 paragraph response. Single Gender Schools Do children learn better in boys-only and girls-only schools? Sports Parents What are the effects on children whose parents push them in sports? College of Medicine MWF College of Law MWF College of Engineering T/Th College of Liberal Arts T/Th I will announce each learning session. You are responsible for your attendance. Read the poems: Dreams and Mother to Son by Langston Hughes. Take a sheet of lineless paper to create a graphic representation of a chosen poem. Color and decorate it. Frame it with construction paper so that your work can be displayed in class. Use responsibility and/or hope as the message theme of your readers theater script. Remember no more than 2- 4 people in a group. Everyone must have a speaking part. You will perform your play before the class so, please practice reading it fluently. Everyone in the group must have a script. I will be listening for loud voices, fluency, and figurative language. **Challenge is to include 4 lines of alliteration. (25Xtra Points)** Please turn in a flow map of your script. 1 per group. Choose a Reading game to play. You can have 2-4 people in this group at a time. Enjoy the game for up to 20 minutes. Group Members: _____________, ________________, ______________, and ________________. We played ____________________. Read the poems: Dreams and Mother to Son by Langston Hughes. Decide which one you better connect with then write a 3-5 paragraph paper explaining why. Might I suggest a compare and contrast or question and answer technique. A combination of Circumlocution and Recursion writing techniques would produce a wonderful writing sample.

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Creative Script Writing

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Choose a line or two from the poem to introduce your paper. Use RUBRIC 6. Have fun.