11/12/13 - TUE

** CONFERENCE TIME REMINDERS GO OUT WEDNESDAY
** WREATH SALE ENDS 11/14
** END OF QUARTER ACTIVITY THIS FRIDAY
               $8.00 FOR THOSE ELIGIBLE

I.  VOCAB WK 6
- pronounciation/repeat
- work on DAY 1 in class
* D2 Tu Night HW
* D3 We Night HW
* D4 Th Night HW

II.  TALL TALES (McBroom's Tales pckt)
 * 3 short stories should have been read by now
* very short; fun &  easy
- write down format in tracker (teacher overhead presentation)
- begin scanning for exaggerations/improbable parts of each story
- discuss and share as a class
- discuss "figurative" vs. exaggeration; figurative doesn't have to be improbable

- write down format in tracker
- begin finding and writing examples of "exaggerated" writing

III.  MIB READ AROUND
- read/perview several MIB's
- read example "I Am" poems
- quick write draft "I Am" poem on MIB you are looking at
   (in SS Spirals -- rough draft ONLY, not HW)


* * *
HOMEWORK  - no CW or Atlas handed out today
* * *
___    FINISH the McBroom Tall Tales packet (3 stories)
          * was supposed to be finished by today

___   begin McBroom Tall Tales exaggeration analysis  (DUE FRIDAY)
         page 1 = description of (a) setting; and (b) main characters
         page 2 = summary of story #1 (1/2 page) and situation or problem (2/5 page)
         back of page 2 = list of exaggerations/improbable descriptions
         * do the same for the next two stories