Root Word
Definition
co,
con,
com
together,
with
Sentence
Pictogram
QW:
Should a bear be killed for attacking a camper in his/her tent?
Root Word
co,
con,
com
Definition
Sentence
Pictogram
together,
with
My co-workers
and I are
packed into the
English office.
c + o
QW:
Should a bear be killed for attacking a camper in his/her tent?
GRAND JUNCTION — Wildlife officials say a 50-year-old Colorado Springs man is
recovering from non-life-threatening injuries after he was attacked by a black bear
while camping near Lake San Cristobal in southwestern Colorado.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman Mike Porras tells the Grand Junction Daily
Sentinel the man was camping in a legal but undesignated area when he was
awakened by something pushing on his tent at about 4 a.m. Wednesday. The man
pushed back, and the bear reacted.
Porras says the bear probably had begun to associate tents with food. A bear thought
to have been involved in the attack was euthanized Thursday.
What is the main idea of this news story? (M.I.)
What are the important supporting details to help you understand what happened?
(S.D.)
Are those supporting details (S.D.) facts, rhymes, metaphors, or statistics?
GRAND JUNCTION — Wildlife officials say a 50-year-old Colorado Springs man is
(S.D.)
Fact 
M.I.
recovering from non-life-threatening injuries after he was attacked by a black bear while
camping near Lake San Cristobal in southwestern Colorado.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman Mike Porras tells the Grand Junction Daily
(S.D.)
Fact 
Sentinel the man was camping in a legal but undesignated area when he was awakened
by something pushing on his tent at about 4 a.m. Wednesday. The man pushed back, and
(S.D.) 
Fact
(S.D.) 
Fact
the bear reacted.
(S.D.)
Fact 
Author’s
 Purpose
Porras says the bear probably had begun to associate tents with food. A bear thought to
(S.D.)
Fact 
have been involved in the attack was euthanized Thursday.
Root
Word
Definition
Sentence
Pictog ram
contra,
against
contro
QW:
Do you push and pull others more than they push and pull you?
Definition
I avoid controversial
topics when talking to
people I don’t know.
Pictog ram
Contra
contra,
against
contro
Sentence
Contra
Root
Word
QW:
Do you push and pull others more than they push and pull you?
Annotations
Annotations are little notes you make while you read.
You write annotations when you see clues about…
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Main Idea (M.I.)
Supporting Details (S.D.)
Author’s Purpose (Auth Purp)
Audience the author is writing for (Aud.)
Craft (tools a writer uses to get his/her point across)
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Facts
Statistics
Repetition
Metaphors
Similes
Vivid, precise word choice
Personal experience
Historical details
Persuasive language
Etc…
ARG
Active Reading Guide
Your annotation cheat sheet
1. Tape it into your comp book
2. Update your table of contents
Your Individual Writing Plan
• Review the 3-4 things Ms. W marked on your IWP to
work on this year
• Look at what peer editors marked
• Write Mr. Poese a note on the photo copy telling him if
you want him to pull you out of Study Hall & what
period so you can get extra help on writing
• Turn in the photo copy to Ms. W so it can go to Mr.
Poese in the Writing Center
Today’s Annotation Practice
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Read “Push and Pull” poem aloud whole class
Annotate only for main idea
Teacher-led discussion of annotation, text clues
Whole-class discussion of text clues for main idea
Read silently, annotating using ARG
small group discussion of main idea, author's purpose, and writer's
craft
Small group discussion of author's purpose
whole group discussion of author's purpose
small group discussion of writer's craft
whole group discussion of writer's craft
Read “Discord” poem silently while annotating for main idea,
author's purpose, and writer's craft
Poem Annotation Practice
1. Annotate the poem for
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Author (A) / Title (T) / Pub
Main Idea (MI)
Supporting Details (S.D)
Author’s Purpose (A. Purp)
Craft (writer’s tools)
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Diction (vivid, precise word choice)
Historical details
Imagery (uses words to create an image in the reader’s mind)
Repetition (repeats words, phrases, images…)
Metaphors
2. Table Talk – agreement on annotations
Push and Pull
Like many who came before
From distant corners of the globe
Pushed from home
Fleeing calamity
Hunger, Poverty, War
The United States
Land of Dreams
Pulling those seeking a better life
Offering hope and optimism
To the downtrodden, the desperate
They've come to this New World
For several hundred years now
In crashing waves from different places at different times
Only to face new struggles
In a new land
"They're taking our jobs."
"They're stealing our money."
"They don't want to speak English."
"Send them all back to where they came from."
They've all taken turns bearing the brunt
Eventually each group melds into the giant pot
Becoming a part of a new America
Time and time again
And the wave we have crashing over our shores now
Will, too
by John Myers
Discord a Two-Voice Poem by L. Wolken
Lift it up
YOU’VE GOT TO
She’s 3
NO! Not like that
LIFT it! Just let her
Here
Let her have it
Give it to me
Watch Let her hold it!
Watch!
She was enjoying herself!
Watch!
She doesn’t know
Here She’s 3
Hold it like that
You’re not
Give it to her
going to catch anything
She doesn’t care
She WANTS to catch something She’s 3
That’s the whole point Just let her fish
Root Word
Definition
dens
thick
Sentence
Pictogram
QW: What is someone like who is described as dense?
Root Word
dens
Definition
Sentence
Pictogram
thick
Unlike balsa,
oak is a dense
wood is used
for flooring.
DENS
QW: If someone offered to make a quilt for me, I’d ask for the
design to be… (symbols, pictures, colors, etc…)
Nonfiction Narrative
Annotation Practice
1. Read the narrative by Genevieve
Barrios about her family
2. Annotate for…
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Author / Title / Pub
Main Idea
Supporting Details / Craft(see the yellow ARG)
Audience
Author’s Purpose
As a child, and young adult, I heard my family’s story of their flight from war-torn Mexico. I never heard praise for the popular heroes who adorn
today’s t-shirts and posters.
This photo of Lorenza Barrios Arias was taken after her arrival in the U.S. She was the aunt of Genevieve Barrios Southgate, who wrote of her
family's experiences in the Mexican Revolution. "My aunt Lorenza (Mama Lencha) would not speak about the horrors that they witnessed until she
was well into her eighties," Southgate wrote.
What I heard was the story of federal troops storming through their rancho (small settlement) one day and the revolutionaries storming
through the next. Both taking food and supplies for their men and leaving behind scarce food and destruction for the families of the rancho. On the
last of these invasions a rebel general attempted to recruit my 17-year-old uncle, Francisco (Pancho).
My grandmother, Epifania Barrios, pleaded with the general to not take her son from her. When the general threatened to shoot Francisco, my
grandmother stood in front of her son and told the general that he would have to shoot her first. To everyone’s surprise, the general
relented and told my grandmother that he would return the next day and if the family was still at the ranch, he would recruit Francisco to fight with
him and his men.
That night the family of Trinidad and Epifania Barrios left El Rancho Los Garcia, Jerez, Zacatecas, with whatever necessities they could carry and
fled to the city of Zacatecas in June 1914.
Besides Trinidad and Epifania, the family caravan included their sons, Francisco and my father, 5-year-old Cruz, their daughter and son-in-law,
Lorenza and Jose Arias and their infant son Antonio.
In Zacatecas, they hoped to find safe shelter. What they came upon was the aftermath of the bloodiest battle of the war and the turning point for
the revolutionaries.
My aunt Lorenza (Mama Lencha) would not speak about the horrors that they witnessed in the Mexican Revolution until she was well into her
eighties. She then told of the family approaching the hilly city and seeing streams of blood flowing down the streets, and pigs eating off of
dead bodies.
That night the Barrios found shelter with a kind family. Early the next day, word came that there was a freight train passing through later in the day.
The family quickly gathered their meager possessions and ran to wait for the train to El Paso del Norte. It was an arduous trip, but they were all
together.
In those days, all that was needed to enter the U.S. was to pay a fee of a few cents each. My Mama Lencha said they had a hard time scraping
up the total fee, but the kind immigrations officer took pity on them and let them enter with what money they had.
As soon as they could, each able person in the family found jobs. My family worked the fields, the mines and the factories of the Southwest, until
they had enough money to buy a house and a small grocery store in El Monte.
My uncle Francisco died in his early twenties of a lung disease he developed from working in the mines of Arizona. After marrying Ruth (Maria del
Refugio) Almanza, and moving to Santa Ana, Cruz and Ruth Barrios opened their own grocery business and became respected community
leaders.
Root Word
Definition
Ec, Ex
out
Sentence
QW: What would you like to get out of?
Pictogram
Root Word
Ec, Ex
Definition
Sentence
out
Exit the building
through the
Weber Street
doors.
QW:
QW: What would you like to get out of?
Pictogram
Finish early?
1. Write another style of poem
2. Pick a book from the box and read
3. Quick Write
Root Words from week 1 & 2
Anti, Ant
baro
Against,
Counteract
pressure
anti-toxin, toxic, toxemia, toxicology
barometer, bar
Bio
life
biology, zoology, psychology
about, around
circumference; circumnavigate,
circumvent
Co, con, com
with, together
Collinear, converge, condensation,
convergent, concentric
Contra, contro
Dens
against
thick
contrary, contradict, contrast
density, dense
Ec, Ex
Out
exoskeleton
Circum