8E – Language Arts          Thursday Lesson

Good morning 8E!

As a warmup activity, please copy and complete the following outline of your personal narrative. Completing this outline will get you thinking about your topic and putting the finishing touches on your narrative; which will be a part of Friday’s lesson.

A. Introduction – What is your narrative about? What is the main idea you want to convey to the reader?

B. Event # 1 – think: what is the topic sentence of my second paragraph?

C. Event # 2 – as in: what happened next?

D. Event # 3 – and then?

E. Event # 4 – you know what to do here

F. Event # 5 – next?

G. Event # 6 – did something else happen?

H. Event # 7 – do I want to discuss anything else before I start to wrap things up?

I.  Event # 8 – am I forgetting anything?

J. Conclusion – final thoughts? Should this be an “echo” of my introduction? Or “what is the final thought I want to leave with the reader?”

Next, let’s attempt to answer the following questions. They all have something to do with sentence composition; like the worksheets we have completed in class.

#1 – What is a “subject?”

#2 – What is a “predicate?”

#3 – What do most verbs “show?” hint: these types of verbs are easy to recognize

#4 – What are the other types of verbs? (the type that isn’t so easily recognized)

#5 – List five common examples of the type of verb from question # 4.

# 6 – In the following sentences, separate the subject and the predicate with a backslash (“/”).

(a) The cat walked across the field.

(b) The center fielder caught the fly ball.

(c) The teacher was simply magnificent.

The next part of our lesson will be spent writing about Halloween. Please take 5 to 10 minutes (longer if you need it) to describe your favorite Halloween experience of all time.

Remember, a good narrative has a setting, characters and events.

The next part of our lesson will be spent on the following quick writing prompt:

Describe, in detail, a piece of media that you watched or listened to recently. This could be a song or artist you listened to, a movie or tv show you watched, a podcast, an online article you have read, etc. Remember: when you are writing about something you watched/listened to, you should act as if the reader doesn’t know anything about your subject. (10 minutes of quiet write time. Feel free to share this piece with someone at home when you are finished)

The fifth part of our lesson will be silent reading. Please spend at least 20 minutes reading your library book, or something else you have at home. So long as you are reading, you are meeting this goal.

For the final portion of our lesson, please click the link below to listen to the second half of chapter 2 from “City of Ember.”

After you finish, please come up with a list of key points from the chapter, similar to the list I included (in Tuesday’s lesson) for the introduction and chapter 1. Your list should include at least 7 or 8 items.

Good Luck !

Chapter 2: Listen aloud