Grammar and Skits

Learning Goal: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says and to help determine theme (main idea) and the author's purpose in writing the text.  

Objective: Students will be able to write a summary of the text along with descriptions of characters and a symbol as the first step in determining meaning in Night or Farewell Manzanar.

 

Today, after the words of the day, we will be taking notes on the rules for semi-colons.  Please keep these next to your rules for commas.  There might be a quiz on all these rules next week.   

We will also be creating skits from the pages that you read last night, so each group will create a skit from a scene that their read last night and practice acting it out.   Your scene must contain actually dialogue or narration from the book (use specifics from the text).  This skits should be 1-2 minutes and will be presented tomorrow.

NOTE: I have read and made comments on your journals.  Most of you have really good journals, but some of your are behind.  Please catch up.  Also, you should be reading pages 51-60 tonight.