11-5-08

=__Reminder: Make Up test for Unit 2 Cluster 1 on Friday after school!__ = =November 5, 2008= =Directions:=
 * ====== (Remember, remember the 5th of November...) ======
 * 1) Get your notebook.
 * 2) Get your textbook.
 * 3) Get your Interactive Practice Book.
 * 4) Copy today's learning objectives and homework.
 * 5) **Have your homework out (3 paragraphs) so I can check it.**

=__Learning Objectives__ (copy in your planner)=
 * Learn to improve a draft of a personal narrative by adding sensory details and other literary devices.
 * Learn to use sensory details, dialogue, anecdotes, and interior monologue to write a powerful personal narrative.
 * Learn the reading strategy: summarize.

Homework: **Interactive Practice Book** 60-61 (Due FRIDAY).

=__Agenda__ (do not copy)=


 * 1. Interactive Practice Book pages 56-57.**
 * 2. Autobiographical Narrative:**
 * Review Sensory Details: Adjectives that appeal to the senses.
 * Revision: Pages 218-221.
 * Pick 5 sentences from the autobiographical narrative that you had for homework and revise them based on what you learned from pages 218-221. Put the sentences side by side: The original sentence and the new and improved sentence. What sensory details can you add? What dialogue can you add? How did you make the sentence better?
 * 3. Interactive Practice Book pages 58-59.**
 * 4. Reading "My Left Foot"** 162-172.
 * 5. Interactive Practice Book** 60-61.