Monday, September 26, Vocabulary, Grammar and Characterization

Objective: Students will use new vocabulary effectively, understand rules of subject / verb agreement and learn 5 ways to identify characterization.

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Use your recent vocabulary words to place in the following paragragh:

It was a ____________________ Spring day and my friends and I were at the park. We
were feeling quite _______________ and wanted to do something a little crazy. We saw some other kids and went over to them to start some trouble. Suddenly, this beautiful girl approached all of us. Her smile was _____________ as we all stared. " Cat got your tongue?" she asked. We didn't know what to say. Obviously our plan to cause trouble went _____________ because we had forgotten all about it at that point. There was a strange feeling among the group. I can't expalin it. It was ___________________. No one felt like fighting anymore so we just went home. We never saw her again.


1. Review subject / verb agreement homework.

2. Read in holt text - introduction to Characterization. Take notes. Identify 5 avenues that determine traits.

a. Speech

b. Appearance

c. Private thoughts

d. How people treat you and what they say

e. Actions

3. Practice! Choose a character. It can be someone you personally know, or a movie star, athelte, etc and apply a character trait to each of the five avenues. In other words, what do you know about the person from each one?

4. Listen to THANK YOU MAAM.

5. Use soft holt reader to identify character traits and do sidebars.

6. Review.

7. Exit pass.

HW - finish sidebars and grammar worksheet. Quiz on grammar and vcabulary will be on Wednesday.