1.
Create-a-story-Let's flex those creative writing muscles again by
looking at this awesome picture and answering the prompt.
What is going on
here? Be more creative than "Two kittens are fighting". Why are they fighting,
who wins, does this fight resolve any deep seeded issues between the two? I want
to know!
Write a short (4-5
sentences) story inspired by the picture. Remember, give lots of
DETAILS!
2. Weekly
Vocabulary-Take some time to look over your Weekly Vocabulary There will be a
quiz on Thursday and your 5x5x5 is due on Friday.
3. Rewording Questions-Using the questions from yesterday's Active Notes
worksheet, we are going to keep practicing question rewording.
4. Read Aloud-It's that time! Relax and
enjoy some Bronx Masquerade!
5. Informational Text Introduction-Today you will be introduced to the "wonderful"
world of informational text. Here is a definition-
Text designed to convey factual
information, rather than tell or advance a narrative. Informational text may
employ techniques such as lists, comparing/contrasting, or demonstrating
cause/effect, and may be accompanied by graphs or charts. Most textbooks consist
of primarily informational text.
What does that mean? Let's
discuss......
6. Informational Text Example-Now that you have a better handle of informational text,
read the following...
Details Release Date:
May 04, 2012; Rated: PG-13; Genre:Action/Adventure;
With: Robert Downey Jr.,Chris Evans,Chris Hemsworth,Scarlett Johansson andMark Ruffalo; Distributor:Walt Disney Pictures
The best thing about The
Avengers, a multi-tentpole blockbuster that gathers half a dozen Marvel
superheroes and unfurls them on a baddie from another planet, is that it also
unleashes them on each other. Simply put: These freaks of goodness may be a
team, but they don't like one another very much. The six have been assembled by
Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), director of the peacekeeping alliance
S.H.I.E.L.D., to defeat Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Thor's megalomaniac adoptive
brother, who arrives through a wormhole and steals the Tesseract — a cosmic
cube that throws off ice-blue electromagnetic vapors like the best special
effect of 1986. Loki, with stringy long hair, black eyeballs, and a ghostly
pallor (he looks like Marilyn Manson playing Richard III), plans to destroy the
world through ultimate war.
Earth's defenders are
Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), the ninja twirler
Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson, with not enough to do), and the crossbow ace
Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner, saturnine cool). They catch Loki and lock him up in a
barely penetrable glass booth, and the film then basically counts down to the
alien attack that Loki calls forth. The first half hour is murk, with too much
gobbledygook on the Tesseract (a talisman that could save our environment and
yada yada). But once our heroes cram into a flying command station, it's Five
Angry Supermen (and one superwoman).
This isn't a case of
more being less. The four who've already fronted their own Marvel films look
all the sharper as supporting studs jockeying for primacy. The magnetically
stolid Captain America emerges as the team leader, Iron Man is the nattering
narcissist, and Thor is the alien outsider who's more intent on saving his
planet than on rescuing Earth. As for the Hulk, the smartest thing the
filmmakers did was to get Mark Ruffalo to play Bruce Banner as a man so
sensitive that he's at war, every moment, with himself. (The film finally
solves the Hulk problem: He's a lot more fun in small doses.) The second
smartest thing they did was to allow Tom Hiddleston to let it rip as Loki. He's
close to a generic villain, but Hiddleston invests his ravings and evil smile
with a sleek mystery and power that suggests he may be an actor of the stature
of Gary Oldman.
In terms of
storytelling, The Avengers is for the most part a highly functional,
banged-together vehicle that runs on synthetic franchise fuel. Yet the grand
finale of CGI action, set in the streets of New York, is — in every sense —
smashing. True, it wouldn't be out of place in a Michael Bay movie, but no
Transformer was ever as transfixing as this leaping, flying, pummeling
superteam. It makes you eager to see what they'll do next, now that they've
defeated a threat even bigger than their egos.B+
7. Weekly Project-Now it's your turn to create some informational text. Using
The Avengers movie review as an
example, you are to write your very own movie review. You are to pick a movie
you have recently seen and review it. This does not have to be a positive review.
If you saw a movie that you absolutely hated, then by all means review it! Make
sure your review includes:
1. Movie information (actors,
director, genre, etc...)
2. Brief summary of the movie (at
least 4 sentences)
3. Your review (at least 5 sentences)-This
should not only include whether or not you liked the movie but also the reasons
why.
8. Homework-You are to do some Independent Reading at home and then create 5 Summary Sketches. These will be due on Friday. 9. Warm-Up-Quietly read and think about the following prompt. You do not need to write down your answers, but you will need to have some if called on. List and explain three causes for the French Revolution. 10. Weekly Project-It's time for you guys to show the power of the press! You are to create a newspaper front page about the French Revolution. It must include: 1. Title of Newspaper 2. Date and price 3. title of article 4. Story (at least 10 sentences) 5. Opinion article (at least 8 sentences) You may use the internet and the class slides for research. This will be due on Friday March 8th, 2013 French Revolution Slides  |
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