Agenda, September 18

Coming Thursday: We're going to the library to check out personal reading books.

Due Tuesday, September 25: Test on Vocab List 1 and Elements of Literature

Today's learning targets:

I can use brainstorming and freewriting to generate ideas for a story.

I can identify a sentence with a correctly punctuated serial comma (C-8 in your Grammar Decoder)

I can use vocabulary words to predict the plot of a short story.

I can define foreshadowing, symbolism, and theme.

I can use a graphic organizer to apply the elements of literature to a narrative song.

1. Comma Rule #1: The Serial Comma - is it punctuated correctly?
2. Freewrite #3: Write about a time you wanted (to do) something very much.
3. What good readers do ...
4. Vocab Prediction Stories
5. Foreshadowing and Symbolism
6. "Initiation," by Sylvia Plath