Bonjour! Monday March 5, 2012

Please take out a writing utensil, your

Book Thief Books and your notebooks;

then take everything else off of your desks.

If I have your notebook, please pick it up from the front.

Bonjour! Monday March 5, Bonjour! Monday March 5, 20122012

Riddle of the Day

I bond two people together but only touch one.

What am I?

Answer:

A Wedding Ring.

Class Agenda

Review/Finish Character Chart for TBTRead TBT starting from page 293

Answer Reading Questions

Open Response format QUIZ

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NOW!

Take out your TBT Character Charts!

If you do not have yours any longer, you may get one at the front.

When you are finished …

Pass them to the person closest to the aisle.

I will collect them!

NOW!

Open your books to page 293.

There will be reading questions for today’s reading assignment

They will be given as a quiz tomorrow.

Make sure you sticky note and make annotations that will help you tomorrow!

Critical Reading Strategies

Read the questions FIRST!

Always read the footnotes!

Make sure you understand the point of the reading

Always read the ‘blurb’ at the top

Highlight statistics (for example, 90 to 0)

ALWAYS read the DIRECTIONS!!!

10. What is MOST LIKELY the reason the poet writes one long sentence in lines 1-11?

B. To emphasize the difficult struggle for liberty

Frederick Douglass Reading Questions: ANSWERS

Look at the words expressed in lines 1-11

11. In lines 2 and 3, what is the MOST LIKELY reason the poet compares freedom to earth and air?

B. To suggest freedom is essential to human life

Frederick Douglass Reading Questions: ANSWERS

Think: what do earth and air have to do with human beings?

12. Based on lines 7-9, what effect did Douglass’s past have on him?

D. He wanted to ensure others would not experience what he did.

Frederick Douglass Reading Questions: ANSWERS

Think: What ‘things’ are expressed/talked about in lines 7-9?

13. Based on the poem, what is the MOST important representation of Douglass’s significance?

C. The people who benefit from his work.

Frederick Douglass Reading Questions: ANSWERS

Think: Meaning of the word ‘representation’Think: Meaning of the word ‘significance’

Short Answer Strategies

Short Answer Strategies

Always read and restate (write) the

open response question in your own

words. Reason: It will help you CLEARLY see

the question youare being asked to answer.

Short Answer Strategies

The Things They Carried Page 115: Short Answer (OR)

Based on the excerpt, explain what the things the

soldiers carried reveal about the soldiers’ experiences in

Vietnam. Support your answer with relevant and specific

information from the excerpt.

Based on the excerpt, explain what the things the

soldiers carried reveal about the soldiers’ experiences in

Vietnam. Support your answer with relevant and specific

information from the excerpt. You will write:Explain three things the soldiers carried and what they reveal about their experiences.

Short Answer Strategies Always follow the UNIFIED PARAGRAPH

FORMAT

If necessary, write down the unified paragraph outline on the test to remind yourself to follow it

Put the question into your own words to help

Always WRITE ON THE LINED SECTION PROVIDED. You will NOT get more space.

Make sure you UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION being asked!

ALWAYS proofread and edit before you turn it in!

Short Answer Strategies Always use three main points.

Always end with a clincher statement

Never end with a quote.

Always brainstorm your three main points in a margin before you begin writing.

USE MLA CITATION (Author’s Last Name Pgph/Ln#)

ALWAYS proofread and edit before you turn it in!

PUT YOUR NOTEBOOKS AWAY!AND TAKE OUT YOUR TBTS!

Let’s get back into The Book Thief!NOW!

Open your books to page 293!