9/16-17/13
Announcements
 All Classes: Mid-Term Progress Reports go Home Wed.,
Practice Plan is Fri., and No School Mon.
A Day:
Mon/Fri Night HW: Read through Chapter 9 by Tuesday,
9/24/13
Th: Complete Claim/Evidence/Commentary Birth Order
Writing Due; Bellringer Quiz 2
B Day:
Mon/Fri Night HW: Read through Chapter 9 by Tuesday,
9/24/13
Wed 9/18/13: Library Orientation
Th: Complete Claim/Evidence/Commentary Birth Order
Writing Due; Bellringer Quiz 2
Bell Work 9/16/13 & 9/17/13
Bell Ringers: Focus on Complete Sentences
Rule: A run-on sentence is made of more than one sentence
run together. A run-on is caused by
1. joining two sentences together with only a comma or
2. without using a period or semicolon between two
sentences.
Edit the following sentences for run-on and fragment
problems.
 The police got the driver out just in time, the car burst into
flames.
 Concentration was the secret of her success. Although she
undoubtedly had a keen mind.
The Schwa Was Here
The Schwa Was Here: Novel Unit Cornell Notes
Internal Conflict
A struggle between opposing needs or desire or
emotions within a single character. The struggle
takes place in the character’s mind.
External Conflict
A struggle against an outside force opposing a
character. The force may be another character,
society, or nature.
The Schwa Was Here
 The Schwa Was Here: Novel Unit Cornell Notes
Metaphor
Figure of speech that makes a comparison
between two unlike things, in which one thing
becomes another thing without the use of the
word like, as, than, or resembles.
Onomatopoeia
Use of a word whose sound imitates or
suggests its meaning. “Crackle, pop, fizz, click,
zoom, and chirp are examples.”
Alliteration
Repeated consonant sounds at the beginnings
of words in the same phrase. “Where the green
grass grows…”
The Schwa Was Here: Novel
Unit Cornell Notes
Peer Re-Teaching – Novel Unit Terms
 Partner with no more than three classmates
 Brainstorm about a new way to re-teach the concept
you have been assigned
 Re-teach the following terms: protagonist, symbolism,
antagonist, setting, hook, exposition, first person
p.o.v., 3.5 essay, autobiographical narrative, thesis,
euphemism, idiom, allusion, direct characterization,
indirect characterization, claim, evidence, and
commentary
Daily Formative Assessment – Stay
in Triads
Whiteboard Drill
 Find an idiom in the novel (p.8)
 Find a euphemism in the novel (p. 2)
 Find an allusion in the novel (p. 1, 2, and 7)
 Write an original metaphor
 Write an original onomatopoeia
 Write an original alliteration
 Correctly label a plot diagram with all seven plot
elements
 Explain the difference between internal and external
conflict