Root Word
bio
Definition
Sentence
life
I dream of
being a biologist
who lives in
each biome I
study.
Pictogram
QW:
Should a bear be killed for attacking a camper in his/her tent?
Root Word Pre-Test
Doesn’t count against your grade!
 Helps you know which root words to study
Write the letter of the best answer by the
root word (best guesses are better than no
guess)
To grade, put a check next to each one you
got right
Theme
T
Auth
Theme
While reading, ask yourself…
What is the text mostly about?
Nearly everything in the text relates to…
Main Idea / Theme
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Theme - FICTION (made up)
Reveals A lesson or message
about how the world works
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Supporting Details can be Stumpers…
Sometimes we think a
Supporting Detail is
the Main Idea
or Theme.
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pg 39
To test if it’s a supporting detail, ask…
Does this bit of information
add to my understanding of a
BIGGER TOPIC?
If it does, it’s a Supporting Detail
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Main Idea / Theme
Supporting
Detail
Supporting
Detail
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T
Theme
SD
What is the main idea of that passage?
The biggest idea?
Why do people want to
“divert [their] thoughts and clear [their] thinking” ?
Root Word
co,
con,
com
Definition
Sentence
Pictogram
together,
with
My co-workers
and I are
packed into the
English office,
but that makes
it easy to
communicate.
c + o
QW:
When, if ever, are weapons of mass destruction justified?
T
Auth
SD
SD
Born w/ mental retardation
Divert
To change your path or change your mind
Di
Writer’s Craft
Diction (D) = precise word choice
___________________________________________
Per: _______
Participation Rubric
4 = always
3 = often
2 = sometimes
1 = seldom or never
What is the best quality you have to offer a partner or group ?
RAPT response on back in complete sentence. 
From: DURLAND, KARA R.
Restate the question
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 12:17 PMAnswer the question
To: HEGERT, TODD S.; SISNEROS, JOSHUA
DAVID;
ROMINE,
DAVE W; HIENTON, JEFFREY D.;
Prove
it using
an example
WOLKEN, LESLIE C.
Thoroughly explain how your example proves you’d be a good partner.
Subject: RE: Collaboration skills
1. Work with 1 or 2 peers.
2. Read the Participation Rubric.
3. Be ready to write at the end of class: What is the best quality you offer a partner?
Annotate for…
• Diction (D) = strong, precise word choice (3-4)
• Symbolism (Symb) = a thing or person symbolizes
(represents) something else (3)
e.g., a red rose is a symbol for love
• Author’s Purpose (AP) =why the author wrote it (2-3)
• Theme (Th.) = moral or lesson humans can learn (1-2)
• Irony (IR) = something that is the opposite of what it
seems like it would be (1-2)
Theme = ______________________ Auth Purpose = ______________________________
Root Word
Definition
About,
circum
around
Sentence
Pictogram
Largecircumference
heads don’t
mean a person
is more
intelligent.
C
I
R
c
u
m
QW:
If you don’t agree with something, like a war or nuclear weapons,
what’s the best way to oppose it?
___________________________________________
Per: _______
Participation Rubric
4 = always
3 = often
2 = sometimes
1 = seldom or never
What is the best quality you have to offer a partner or group ?
RAPT response on back in complete sentence. 
From: DURLAND, KARA R.
Restate the question
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 12:17 PMAnswer the question
To: HEGERT, TODD S.; SISNEROS, JOSHUA
DAVID;
ROMINE,
DAVE W; HIENTON, JEFFREY D.;
Prove
it using
an example
WOLKEN, LESLIE C.
Thoroughly explain how your example proves you’d be a good partner.
Subject: RE: Collaboration skills
1. Make sure your name is on the top of your annotated short story.
2. Fill out your Participation Rubric.
3. Write in complete sentences on the back: What is the best quality you offer a partner?
R
A
The best quality I offer a partner would have to be my unrelenting focus. If my partner or
someone near us, threatens to pull us off task, by talking about something personal, for
example, I will reliably draw us right back to the work we're supposed to be doing. I'll
usually point to wherever we left off and ask a question like, "So, what did we decide to
P
annotate right here in the story?" If that doesn't work, I go ahead and annotate it and ask
my partner to see if it looks correct, giving that person a specific task that will, hopefully,
focus my partner's attention back on our work.
T
R = Restate the question
A = Answer it
P = Prove my answer with evidence or an example
T = Thoroughly explain how my proof proves my point
Definition
I avoid controversial
topics when talking to
people I don’t know.
Pictog ram
Contra
contra,
against
contro
Sentence
Contra
Root
Word
JW:
Do you push and pull others more than they push and pull you?
10 Minute Annotation Partners
• Refer to your yellow ARG for everything you
should annotate. (Front and Back!)
• Both partners annotate their own short story
– these will be graded!
• Annotate only pages 1 and 2
Think like a Writer.
Common CRAFT used in Fiction
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Annotate the story
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Title (T)
Author (A)
Imagery (Imag) – words that create a vivid image in your mind
(5)
Diction (D) – strong, precise word
(8)
Metaphor (Met.)
(1)
Similes (Sim.)
(1)
Personification (Person.) – giving human qualities to something inhuman (2)
Auth Purpose (AP) – Why did he write this?
(1)
Theme (Th) -- life lesson or moral
(1)
At the end of the story, in the white space, write …
A.P. =
Theme =
Then write what you believe the author’s purpose was for writing this story, and
what the theme (moral or life lesson) is in this story.
A
T
D
SD – planning a murder
Annotate Pg 3 Independently
•
•
•
•
•
Imagery (Imag) – words that create a vivid image in your mind
(2)
Diction (D) – strong, precise word
(2)
Metaphor (Met.)
(1)
Personification (Person.) – giving human qualities to something inhuman (1)
Turning Point in the story (TP)
(1)
At the end of the story, in the white space, write …
1. A.P. =
Write a statement of what you believe the author’s purpose was for writing this story.
What is he trying to tell us about the human world and nature?
2. Theme =
Write a short Theme Statement.
What theme (moral or life lesson) can we humans learn from this story?
3. Irony = What is ironic that happens in the story?
(opposite of what you think should happen)
Root Word
dens
Definition
Sentence
Pictogram
thick
Unlike balsa,
oak is a dense
wood used for
flooring.
DENS
JW: What would you want if you could change one thing in your
life?
Things to know
• Money to buy books due today
• Signed syllabus due today
• Bring a book or magazine tomorrow – 15 minutes
of Independent Reading time
• Today’s 2nd story is grade for Fiction Formative
(rather than Friday’s)
• Root Word Quiz Friday - Roots 1-10
Think like a Writer.
Common CRAFT used in Fiction
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BEAUTIFUL & CRUEL
Write margin notes all over!
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How does she feel about herself?
How does she see her sister?
How does she feel about her sister?
How does her mother see her now? In the future?
How does her mother's view of her influence the way she sees herself?
What does it mean to
1. "decided not to grow up tame" like the others who
2. "lay their necks on the threshold"
3. "waiting for the ball and chain."
Why does the author say there's always a woman in the movies with "red red lips"?
Why not just "red"?
What does it mean if a woman "drives the men crazy and laughs them all away"?
What does it mean if your power is your own and you don't give it away?
Remember how Cisneros feels about herself at the start of the story.
How is she different from the movie women?
What does Cisneros want to be like as a woman?
How will she become that woman?
What does she mean by "I have begun my own “quiet war”. I …”leave[s] the table like a man,
without putting back the chair or picking up the plate"?
How can these actions help her become the woman she wants to be?
Beautiful & Cruel by Sandra Cisneros (from The House on Mango Street)
I am an ugly daughter. I am the one nobody comes for.
Nenny says she won't wait her whole life for a husband to come and get her, that
Minerva's sister left her mother's house by having a baby, but she doesn't want to go that
way either. She wants things all her own, to pick and choose. Nenny has pretty eyes and
it's easy to talk that way if you are pretty.
My mother says when I get older my dusty hair will settle and my blouse will learn to stay
clean, but I have decided not to grow up tame like the others who lay their necks on the
threshold waiting for the ball and chain.
In the movies there is always one with red red lips who is beautiful and cruel. She is the
one who drives the men crazy and laughs them all away. Her power is her own. She will
not give it away.
I have begun my own quiet war. Simple. Sure. I am one who leaves the table like a man,
without putting back the chair or picking up the plate.
Author’s Purpose
Theme
What does Cisneros want
us to know about or do?
What’s the moral or life
lesson of this story?
Bums in the Attic
Annotate for
• Author’s Purpose
• Theme (lesson or moral in the story)
• Simile
• Imagery (multiple)
• Personification
Write margin notes all over the story!
• Where do the rich live?
• Where do the poor live?
• Why do the rich sometimes look down?
• What worries poor people but not rich people?
• What does Cisneros want?
• But how will she be different from the rich people?
• What will she actually do to be different?
• Why does she want to be different from the rich people?
Bums in the Attic by Sandra Cisneros (from The House on Mango Street)
I want a house on a hill like the ones with the gardens where Papa works. We go on
Sundays, Papa's day off. I used to go. I don't anymore. You don't like to go out with us, Papa
says. Getting too old? Getting too stuck-up, says Nenny. I don't tell them I am ashamed—all
of us staring out the window like the hungry. I am tired of looking at what we can't have.
When we win the lottery . . . Mama begins, and then I stop listening.
People who live on hills sleep so close to the stars they forget those of us who live too
much on earth. They don't look down at all except to be content to live on hills. They have
nothing to do with last week's garbage or fear of rats. Night comes. Nothing wakes them
but the wind.
One day I'll own my own house, but I won't forget who I am or where I came from. Passing
bums will ask, Can I come in? I'll offer them the attic, ask them to stay, because I know how
it is to be without a house.
Some days after dinner, guests and I will sit in front of a fire. Floorboards will squeak
upstairs. The attic grumble.
Rats? they'll ask.
Bums, I'll say, and I'll be happy.
Text Types and Writer’s Craft
(ADD TO PG 7 of your Comp Book and your TOC)
Nonfiction Informative
Nonfiction Persuasive
Nonfiction Narrative
Fiction
Text Types and Writer’s Craft
(ADD TO PG 7 of your Comp Book)
Nonfiction Informative
Nonfiction Persuasive
Nonfiction Narrative
Fiction
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Imagery, metaphors, similes
Diction
Characterization
Conflict, Turning point, Rising/Falling Action
Historical Info
Symbolism
Irony
Personification
Foreshadowing / Flashback
Text Types and Writer’s Craft
Nonfiction Informative
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Facts
Statistics
Personal exp
Historical info
Expert Commentary
Diction
Logical Order
Nonfiction Persuasive
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Nonfiction Narrative
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Characterization
Personal exp
Historical info
Imagery, metaphors, similes
Diction
Logical Order
(ADD TO PG 7 of your Comp Book)
Persuasive language
Personal exp
Facts
Statistics
argument
Call to action
Diction
Expert Opinion
Imagery, metaphors, similes
Irony
Logical Order
Fiction
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Imagery, metaphors, similes
Diction
Characterization
Conflict, Turning point, Rising/Falling Action
Historical Info
Symbolism
Irony
Personification
Foreshadowing / Flashback
RAPT Writing Practice
Whenever you speak or write, assume your audience doesn’t have a clue
what you are talking/writing about.
R If you don’t restate the question somewhere in your response, your
audience will spend most of their time trying to figure out what you’re
talking/writing about.
A If you don’t answer in detail, they will only get a superficial (fluffy) idea of
what you’re thinking.
P If you don’t use an example or evidence, they will think you don’t really
have any proof to back up your idea.
T If you don’t thoroughly explain your proof, they will wonder whether it
really proves what you’re saying or whether you just threw something out
there hoping it will help prove your point.
RW Quiz 1 Answers
RW Quiz Q1-Wks 1-2
Name:
1.
Don’t contradict your dad if you want to stay on his good side.
1.
A biologist decided it was a species that had never been discovered before.
1.
The density of the air in a balloon has to be lower than the air around it for it to float.
1.
The ravens encircled the hurt rabbit in an area enclosed by trees.
1.
Our city is almost equidistant from the equator and the North Pole.
1.
We could use a barometer to tell if the conditions are right for a thunderstorm.
1.
The project will certainly fail if we don’t cooperate.
1.
Take the anti-toxin just in case you’re allergic to the snake that bit you.
1.
Measure the circumference of the basketball and compare it to the size of your hand.
1.
A beetle’s empty exoskeleton is sometimes found hanging on a tree.
Per:
A/D
I
E
H
G
B
C
A/D
J
F