This I Believe - What is it?

Today's Goal: Close reading of a text

The Plan:

1. Sentence Parts Practice (See below!)
2. Achieve Contest
3. "This I Believe" Introduction (You won't finish this today, and that's okay!
4. No Red Ink

Sentence Parts Practice

Choose the meaningful chunking of the sentence:

1. When his father / who was old / and twisted with toil / gave / him the ownership of the / farm and seemed / content to creep away to / a corner and wait for / death, he / shrugged his shoulders and dismissed the old / man from his mind.

2. When his father / who was old / and twisted with toil / gave him the ownership / of the farm / and seemed content / to creep away / to a corner / and wait for death / he shrugged his shoulders / and dismissed the old man / from his mind.

Sherwood Anderson, Winesberg, Ohio

This I Believe Introduction
On Google Classroom, there is a link to a website called "GoFormative." The assignment is called "Introduction to 'This I Believe."

You will need to remember what a metaphor is:

Achieve Contest:
Period 1 is currently winning this contest. By Friday, we have to have the most points on activities across the entire school, and at least 75% of you have to have done 8 Achieves with high activity scores in the past month.

You could win a class donut party (or something like it. We get to choose)

Reminders/Homework:

• No Red Ink due TONIGHT by midnight.
• Thought Question due MONDAY. Yes, Monday. One week from now. December 11
• Two Achieve Articles due by midnight FRIDAY.
• one article of your choice.
• One article of Ms. Black's choice. 
• Title: "Will Amazon Change the World…Again?"
• Independent Reading: at least two books completed by January 15 (more if you are doing Ms. Black's Winter Reading Challenge)