SEPTEMBER 26, 2012Journal

Work on your description of a room. Remember: It must be in paragraph format, and single spaced.

Quote “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” –Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

Word of the DayWe will be doing something different with this from now on…

NEW WORD OF THE DAY… This will be given in a sentence. Try to figure out what it means by what the

rest of the sentence says. Why? The end of levels will expect you to be

able to understand big words and they will not give you the definition. This is good practice.

EXAMPLE…He was dressed in a very flamboyant suit. It was lime green with golden sparkles.

WORD OF THE DAY Flamboyant

Strikingly bold; elaborately styled; flashy or colorful

ANNOUNCEMENTS/REMINDERS Grammar Words Spelling Test

You can re-take it at any of the following times: before school, after school, or during study hall.

EXPLORE test tomorrow. Stay in your first hour class. You need to bring a calculator and #2 pencils.

CONVENTIONS Grammar

When do you use “me” and “I”? Spelling Paragraphs

WHEN TO PARAGRAPH When you begin a new

idea or point. If you have an extended

idea that spans multiple paragraphs, each new points within that idea should have its own paragraph.

Example: When describing a room, you would change paragraphs every time you described a new object or used a new sense.

WHEN TO PARAGRAPH To contrast information or ideas.

WHEN TO PARAGRAPH When you are

ending your introduction or starting your conclusion

WHEN TO PARAGRAPH For dialogue – when

a new person is speaking.

Example:He told them,

“I’m doing good.”The other

man stared at the first and then shouted, angrily, “No, you’re doing WELL!”

EDITING This is checking

their grammar, their spelling, and their word choice.

Use your editing marks to show changes that need to be made!

PROOF-READING (PEER REVIEWING) This is looking for errors

in grammar and also ways that the writer can improve their ideas and content, their sentence fluency, their organization, and their voice.

When you review someone’s paper, make comments about what you liked and what didn’t work.

SYNONYM A word that means

the same thing as another word.

Examples: Big; large Small; little Miss Salisbury;

awesome

ANTONYM A word that means the opposite of another

word. Examples: Big; Small/Fat; Skinny/Interesting;

Boring

SYNONYM STORIES For every word that is underlined, replace it

with a synonym.

Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there lived a little girl named Red Riding Hood. She liked to go on adventures.

One day, the little girl’s mother asked her to take a basket of food to her grandmother.

The girl walked happily through the woods where she met a very smart wolf. When the wolf found out that she was going to her grandmother’s house, he convinced the little girl to stay in the woods and pick some flowers.

The smart wolf ran ahead and ate the little girl’s grandmother in one big bite. He put on the grandmother’s clothes and got in her bed.

When the little girl got to her grandmother’s house, she saw the old lady lying in her bed.

“Well, Grandma, what big eyes you have,” said the little girl.“All the better to see you with, my dear,” said the wolf.“Why Grandma, what big ears you have,” said the little girl.“All the better to hear you with, my dear,” said the wolf.“Why Grandma, what big –” the little girl stopped short,

“Wait a second! You’re not my Grandma!” With that, she took out a weapon and killed the wolf. She would have saved her grandmother but the old lady was already partially digested. After all, you can only do so much in a fairy tale.

AN ANTONYM ENDING Replace the underlined words with an

antonym.

Once upon a time, there lived a sweet old lady who was very lonely. So, she decided to make a friend for herself.

She made a friend out of gingerbread dough and gave him raisins for eyes and gumdrop buttons. She hoped he would be the most wonderful friend ever.

After the man had been baked, he popped out of the oven and shouted,

“Hi there, you old hag!”The old lady was startled. “Well, that was very rude!” she yelled.The gingerbread man giggled and ran away from the old

lady. He didn’t get very far before the neighborhood dog, a mean, scary Rottweiler named Brutus, ran after him and attacked him with his sharp teeth.

Brutus ate the gingerbread man whole and went running back to the sweet old lady who was very happy that the rude little gingerbread man had been eaten and that she had made a new friend in the big dog, Brutus.

ANTONYM ALIASES For each name, create a nickname using an

antonym for the first part of the name and then add a name that begins with the same sound.

Example: Hardy Henry = Gentle George

ANTONYM ALIASES Messy Mary Smooth Sam Precious Pete Irksome Inez Cool Chris Grumpy Garrett Old Oliver Ruthless Ricky Quick Quentin Cruel Carl Jerky Jack