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Ms. Flores' classes homework for the week-end that needs to be ready to turn in next class:
Finish your 2 page narrative essay that we started on Friday, Feb. 1, 2008 or Monday, Feb. 4, 2008. Use adjectives, make it a good story, show some adventure, use M.A.C.H.O.S.,
At the conclusion use an emotional ending; pull at the reader's heartstrings. Don't forget to close with the sentence:

Isn't it amazing how much you can accomplish and overcome with hard work and perseverence.

M = Metaphors
A= Alliteration
C= Culture
H= Hyperbole
O= Onomatopoeia
S = Simile

I needed money. One day, like a brick, (simile) that fact hit me when I heard a guest speaker from a college talk to all the students about how much it costs to go to college. All my life, my parents told me how I would be the one. I would be the one shining example, the star of the family. (metaphor) I would be the first one to finish college. I had some cousins who tried. One made it a whole year in community college but a cute little crying package (metaphor) that his wife delivered ended that quickly. When I realized how much college costs, it blew me away. (hyperbole) "My parents don't have that kind of money, "I thought. I felt a rope tightening around my neck. (metaphor) How on earth was I going to be the "Star?" For a moment, I was a falling star, crashing to the ground (metaphor) along with my parent's hopes and dreams. I decided, right then, that I would find a way to make this happen. I would get over this mountain, (metaphor) I decided to start early.


You will complete the middle of the essay....
examples: get a job, apply for scholarships, graduate with good GPA, pass the TAKS, saving every penny, mow lawns, pick up cans, lemonade stand, sports scholarship, babysit, loans, ask parent(s)etc....
and.....

the end of the essay

This will be closing your sentence:

Isn't it wonderful how with hard work and perseverance you can overcome any obstacle.

or

Isn't it fascinating how people who work hard for their dreams can overcome any obstacle.
or
Isn't it amazing how when you try hard and do your best good things happen.



What are we doing for the next 12 days? We are:
1. Discussing reading comprehension strategies
2. Supporting our answer choices with pertinent textual evidence
3. Explaining the reasons for how we chose the correct answer
4. Explaining the reasons for the incorrectness of some answer choices
5. Evaluating open-ended essays using criteria/rubric
6. Evaluating essays using criteria/rubric
7. Applying punctuation rules
8. Applying effective strategies in combining sentences

Calendar of activities/assignments
Dates:Days Assignments Score Reading comprehension/Revising and editing skills
January 31 (Thursday) & February 1 (Friday) 1. Copy and paste TAKS reading comprehension skills and revising and editing skills on your web page
2. Finish paper number 1 and 2 (The Kayak)
3. Write a drawing conclusion about a character trait question, answer it and support your answer with 3 pertinent textual evidence		 1. 100 points
2. 200 points
3. 200 points		 1. Making inference (Drawing conclusion about a character trait) and supporting answer with pertinent textual evidence.
February 4 (Monday) & February 5 (Tuesday) 1. Answer paper number 3 & 4 (The Kayak)
2. Write a drawing conclusion question about a character's motivation question, answer it and support your answer with 3 pertinent textual evidence
3. Explain what type of evidence you need to look for to support your response to an inference question about a character.		 1. 100 points
2. 200 points
3. 100 points		 1. Drawing conclusion about a character motivation and supporting answer with 3 pertinent textual evidence
February 6 (Wednesday) & February 7 (Thursday) 1. View the open-ended video clip and create and criteria for an effective short essay.
2. Write a short essay (Paper 4)
4. Write an essay related to the theme of "The Kayak" and "The Summit"		 1. 100 points
2 &3 200 points
4. 500 points		 Writing an effective short essay

Writing an effective narrative essay
February 8 (Friday) & February 11 (Monday) 1. Identify the theme of the story (The Kayak) and support your response with pertinent textual evidence
2. Go to lyrics.com and choose the lyrics of a song that has the same theme as "The Kayak". support your response with evidence from the lyrics of the song.
3. Have another group listen to the song
4. Answer papers # 5 & # 6 (The Kayak)
5. Evaluate essays using criteria/rubric for an effective narrative essay		 1. 100 points
2. 200 points
3. 200 points
4. 500 points
1. 100 points
 Identifying the theme of text; supporting response with evidence and connecting themes across texts

Evaluating essay using criteria/rubric for an effective narrative essay
February 12 (Tuesday) & February 13 (Wednesday) 1. Determine the main idea of a paragraph and explain how you determined the main idea.
2. (Do paper # 7)
Summarize the story and explain the steps that you took to summarize the story.
3. Extra credit points (Summarize a movie that has the same theme as the Kayak and explain how you summarized the story)
4. Do paper # 9		 1. 200 points
2. 300 points
3. 200 points
4. 100 points
 Determining the main idea and summarizing the story.
Supporting response with pertinent textual evidence.
Explaining the how to summarize effectively.
February 14 (Thursday) & February 15 (Friday) 1. Identifying definitions of vocabulary words using context clues and multiple meaning words.(Do papers 10 & 11)
2. Explain the word in your own word.
3. Add a clip art that helps you understand the meaning of the word.
4. Use the word/s in a sentence.		 1. 200 points
2. 100 points
3. 100 points
4. 100 points
 1. Explain what you did to figure out the correct definition of the vocabulary word.
February 18 (Monday) & February 19, (Tuesday) 1. Explain the different ways that authors organize their ideas.
2. Choose two paragraphs and explain how the author organize the paragraph.
(Clue: cause & effect, problem & solution, enumeration, compare and contrast)
3. Record a podcast explaining how you analyzed the text structure or how the author organized his ideas on a paragraph.
 1. 100 points
2. 200 points
3. 200 points		 Evaluating how authors organize their ideas

Analyzing text structure
February 20 (Wednesday) & February 21 (Thursday) 1. Explain the rules in using commas
2. Explain how to effectively combine sentences		 1. 200 points
2. 200 points		 Effective use of commas

Combining sentences effectively
February 22 (Friday) & February 25 (Monday) 1. Identify the meaning of the words using context clues. (Do paper 11)
2. Identify the correct meaning of a multiple-meaning word. (Do paper 12)		 1. 100 points
2. 100 points		 Analyzing literary devices
February 26 (Tuesday) & February 27 (Wednesday) Write and evaluate the effectiveness of open-ended essays. 300
points		 Writing effective open-ended essays
Supporting responses with textual evidence
February 28 (Thursday) & February 29 (Friday) Write and evaluate the effectiveness narrartive essays. 500 points Writing effective narrative essays
Evaluating the effectiveness of essays using criteria/rubric
March 3 (Monday) & March 4 (Tuesday)



Paper / Question #4 The Kayak
Short essay answer: (Change in character question)
1. Using the character change graphic organizer, explain how paragraph 60 reveal how the main character changed. Support your answers with evidence from the story.
Before: she use to think that she was a helpless child. and that she didnt need her parents help.
Evidence:"I see two images of me: the helpless child on land" "My parents treat me like a baby."
After:she can have friends and she shouldn't feel ashame of being in a wheelchair.
Evidence: Paragraph 60
Lesson:That she should not be ashamed of talkin to other people.
Evidence:"I blink and the land and water merge. I become one."
2. Write your answers from the graphic organizer in one paragraph (five lines).



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