ELA 23-24 Quarter 1, Week 4.pptx

ELA Quarter 1, Week 4 What we will learn What we will do • Literary Term - Storytelling Arc • Root Words • Opening and Delayed Adjectives • Basics to a Paragraph • The Story of English pt. 2 • Basic writing conventions • 100 word story (re-do) • Read “Space Traders” by Derek Bell • Read and tak...

ELA Quarter 1, Week 4 What we will learn What we will do • Literary Term - Storytelling Arc • Root Words • Opening and Delayed Adjectives • Basics to a Paragraph • The Story of English pt. 2 • Basic writing conventions • 100 word story (re-do) • Read “Space Traders” by Derek Bell • Read and take notes: Seven Habits Chapter 2 • Seven Habits Writing Prompt The Importan ce of English “Master English. Because any trick that will be played on you will be played in that language.” Discussion: What’s an example of a trick that has been played on us using English? The Delayed Adjective • A Delayed Adjective is an adjective placed after the word described. • “An adjective placed after the word it describes. An adjective is a descriptive word that modifies a noun. A delayed adjective may be a single word or the first word in an adjective phrase. Commas punctuate a delayed adjective.” • Single Delayed Adjective Example: • People under the helicopter ducked down, afraid, as if they were being visited by a plague or a god. “Each snowflake was different, Sister Samiyah said, like a person, irreplaceable and beautiful.” Example s “A woman of fifty or so, plump with frizzy gray hair, came toward them.” “Alicia Muhammad was small for her age, fragile, intelligent, friendly and outgoing, although her mother said she was timid with strangers and certainly would not have gone off with someone she did not know.” Find the Delayed Adjective • They ate like men, ravenous and intent. (Toni Morrison, Beloved) • Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, (Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven") • They ate like men, ravenous and intent. (Toni Morrison, Beloved) • Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, (Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven") Find the Delayed Adjective • Its lawn, green and lush, is the length of several football fields, framed by shady magnolia trees that were just beginning to bloom. ("Where Everybody Knows Your Name," by Holly Bailey, Newsweek, 4 May 2009.) • Its lawn, green and lush, is the length of several football fields, framed by shady magnolia trees that were just beginning to bloom. ("Where Everybody Knows Your Name," by Holly Bailey, Newsweek, 4 May 2009.) Find the Delayed Adjective • “It's a routine day in October, sunny and crisp.” (Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife) • Where is the rich, dark earth, brown and moist? (Shaun Tan, Lost & Found) • “It's a routine day in October, sunny and crisp.” (Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife) • Where is the rich, dark earth, brown and moist? (Shaun Tan, Lost & Found) Important technical on writing conventions • Copy/Paste • Format on Google Docs • Spelling and Grammar Literary Term 2 Story-Telling Arc We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle What habits define you most? Free Write Prompt Story-Telling Arc – A Classic pattern used in fiction that’s guaranteed to satisfy most audiences. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ9zMB9r7GI Read & Analyze – Read & Analyze Derek Bell’s, The Space Traders – Identify the Story-Telling Arc, Theme,