PEG LANGUAGE ARTS
Mrs. Suzie F. Mandell
AMS Room 307
For questions: G&T Office 732-596-4206 (T-F)
IMS 732-602-8450 (M)
Email:
Website:
Blog:pegponderings4.blogspot.com
***All written work, except for your essays,is written in either your writer’s notebook (for your 15 mins.) or Reader Response Journal.
Peg 4
Friday, February 6, 2015
MP3 #4
Write for 15 minutes about the following topic or whatever you would like in your writer’s notebook.
It is commonly believed that the longer people are married the more they look alike. Do you think this is true? Why or why not?
Activity One:
Read 8-14 Fever1793.
Activity Two
Complete the handouts-p12-20
Complete page 12 (vocab sheet)
Choose 6 questions to answer using RACE on page 13, as well as Personification section.
Complete all on page 14, 16, 17
Complete page 15(vocab sheet)
Complete 6 questions totalon page 13 and 16 as well asthe cliffhanger and social studies connection
Monday, February 9, 2015
MP3 #5
Write for 15 minutes about the following topic or whatever you would like in your writer’s notebook.
Complete this sentence 10 different ways. Fear is…
Activity One:
DD(1) DD(2) CC(1) CC(2) LL(1) LL(2) Sum+TT(1/2) INV(1) INV (2) IL(1/2) WW(1/2)
Activity Two:
Reading Strategy-Synthesis
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
MP3 #6
Write for 15 minutes about the following topic or whatever you would like in your writer’s notebook.
What is the worst advice you have ever heard-or given? Why was it so bad? Explain.
Activity One:
Finish Friday and Monday’s work
Poetry Prompt
Writing Task
Imagine or recall a time: Did you ever meet/know someone that’s a “know it all.”
How did s/he make you feel?
Did you challenge her or his knowledge ?
What did you learn from the experience?
Write a description/story about that person/experience. Jot down some notes, create a web, or do any other pre-writing work on scrap paper.
Miss Misinformation
I’m Miss Misinformation,
It’s my gratifying task
To tell you all you need to know,
You only need to ask.
The seas are thick with elephants,
The skies are purple straw,
You measure with an octopus,
You hammer with a saw.
I’m filled with facts and figures
I gratuitously share.
The stars are silver footballs,
Tangerines have curly hair.
Gorillas fly at midnight,
And a month has seven years,
Tomatoes play the clarinet,
Bananas have long ears.
I’m Miss Misinformation,
And there’s nothing I don’t know.
The moon is chocolate pudding,
Macaroni grows in snow.
A buffalo is smaller
Than the average bumblebee-
If you think of any questions,
Simply bring them here to me.
Writer’s checklist
Remember to:
Keep the central idea or topic in mind.
Keep your audience in mind.
Support your ideas with details, explanation, and examples from the poem.
State your ideas in a clear sequence.
Include an opening and closing.
Use a variety of words and vary your sentence structure.
State your opinion or conclusion clearly.
Capitalize, spell, and use punctuation correctly.
Write neatly.
Use reach vocabulary, similes, metaphors, dialogue, or anything else that would improve your writing.
Taking risks will improve your score!!!
Use the Compositional Risk Matrix on School Wires!
Poetry Fun
Exercise 1
In an untitled poem, Mina Loy makes many sweeping statements such as “There is no first or Last/Only equality.” Do you agree with this statement? Write a poem in which you either defend or contradict this statement.
Activity One
Respond to your Blog posting!
Activity Two
Complete your Edmodo Snapshot.
Grammatical Guessing
These sentences have grammar mistakes in them. Do your best to
correct the following examples. We will go over them in class after the ten minutes of writing each week.
- “Before you buy shoes for your pet millipede”, he said. “Consider the cost.
- Bram had a hard time remembering things, he always came to school with a sticky note list stuck in the middle of his fourhead.
PEG LANGUAGE ARTS
Mrs. Suzie. F. Mandell
AMS Room 307
For questions: G&T Office 732-596-4206 (W-F)
IMS 732-602-8450 (M-Tues.)
Email:
Website:
Blog: pegponderings5.blogspot.com
***All written work, except for your essays, is written in either your writer’s notebook (for your 15 minutes) or Reader Response Journal.
PEG 5
Friday, February 6, 2015
MP3#4
Write for 15 minutes about the following topic or whatever you would like in your writer’s notebook.
What is the best advice you’ve ever heard or given? Why was it so good? Explain.
Activity One
Read The Westing Game chapters 16-22
Activity Two
Utilize RACE. Choose 8.
Chapter 16
1.What does it mean to have bound feet? Look it up(Chinese culture)
2.What happened to Angela Wexler?
3.Who is the guy with the limp?
4.Who entered the Westing House on the day that the smoke was rising from the chimney?
5.Who do you think so far could be the bomber and why do you think this?
Chapter 17
6.Describe Mr. Hoo.
7.What is the clue that has been discovered?
8.How is Mr. Hoo connected to Westing?
Chapter 18
9. Describe Flora Baumbach, Amber, Deere, and Pulaski.
10. How are these four people connected to Sam Westing?
Chapter 19
11. Who is the possible bomber?
12. Describe Crow.
13. Two clues are:
14. Describe the Wexlers.
15.Who is Grace Wexler related to?
16.Who is Sydelle Pulaski?
17.Whose identity was mistaken?
Chapter 20
18.Describe the Theodorakis family.
19.Why does Mrs. Westing need to be protected?
Chapter 21
20.Who is the bomber? How do you know?
21.Who found this out about the bomber?
22.Describe McSouthers.
23.What are the clues so far in the novel
24.What did Angela and Sydelle figure out.
Chapter 22
25. What does Amber suggest?
26.What did they figure out about Sam Westing?
27.Who is she?
28.What part of Sam Westing’s appearance has changed?
29.What could a disguise be for Sam Westing?
30.Who else could Sam Westing be in the novel? Why?
31.Who thinks that herself or himself is in danger?
Monday, February 9, 2015
MP3 #5
Write for 15 minutes about the following topic or whatever you would like in your writer’s notebook.
Are you a morning person or a night person? An introvert or an extrovert? Do you see the glass half empty(pessimist) or half full(optimist)?
Activity One
DD+C LL+INV SUM+TT IL WW
Activity Two
Reading Strategy-Schema
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
MP3 #6
Write for 15 minutes about the following topic or whatever you would like in your writer’s notebook.
Write about a first in your life: first date, first funeral, first communion, first swim meet, first time you stayed home alone, etc. Choose one first and write about the experience. What happened? How did it make you feel? How did the experience work out?
Activity One
Continue working on Friday and Monday’s work.
Activity Two
Writing Fun
POETRY PROMPT
Writing Task
Imagine what you’d like to be when you grow up.
Why do you want to do this job?
How do you think it will make you feel?
How will you go about accomplishing this?
What can you learn from thinking about the experience?
When I Grow Up
When I grow up, I think that I
May pilot rockets through the sky,
Grow orchards full of apple trees,
Or find a way to cure a disease.
Perhaps I’ll run for president,
Design a robot, or invent
Unique computerized machines
Or miniature submarines.
When I grow up, I’d like to be
The captain of a ship at sea,
An architect, a clown or cook,
The writer of a famous book.
I just might be the one to teach
A chimpanzee the art of speech…
But what I’ll really be, I’ll bet
I’ve not begun to think of yet.
Write a description/story about what you’d like to do when you grow up and why. Remember, you may take notes, create a web, or do any other pre-writing work on scrap paper.
Writer’s checklist
Remember to:
Keep the central idea or topic in mind.
Keep your audience in mind.
Support your ideas with details, explanation, and examples from the poem.
State your ideas in a clear sequence.
Include an opening and closing.
Use a variety of words and vary your sentence structure.
State your opinion or conclusion clearly.
Capitalize, spell, and use punctuation correctly.
Write neatly.
Use reach vocabulary, similes, metaphors, dialogue, or anything else that would improve your writing.
Taking risks will improve your score!!!
Activity Two
BLOG!
Activity Three
Complete your Edmodo snapshot.
Grammatical Guessing
These sentences have grammar mistakes in them. Do your best to
correct the following examples. We will go over them in class after the ten minutes of writing each week.
- “Before you buy shoes for your pet millipede”, he said. “Consider the cost.
- Bram had a hard time remembering things, he always came to school with a sticky note list stuck in the middle of his fourhead.
Debate Topics???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
To be or not to be, that is the question….
- Any citizen who does not have a criminal record should be permitted to carry a concealed weapon.
- The world is a better place to live today than 100 years ago.
- All students are entitled to a college education, even if they cannot afford to pay for it themselves.
Debate will be on February 25, 2015.