Grades

Hey guys
Sorry that I messed up the previews posts with your grades, but just to be sure I'm attaching a file with all of your grades.

Hope you have a fun weekend.

Click here to see your grades.
Miss Rox

First Person Point of View

Is when a first person narrator participates in the action and uses the pronouns  I, me , my, we, and us.

 

http://fictionwriting.about.com/od/glossary/g/firstperson.htm

Final Grades 7°A

7°A: Guys here are your grades If you have any doubts let me know               Matrícula	Bim 1
176	9
203	7
1055	8
236	9
384	8
284	8
207	10
373	5
573	9
232	9
215	9
872	9
206	8
514	9
189	7
200	9
702	8
368	9
376	8
678	7
231	9
419	8
895	7
868	10
602	9
539	9
761	10
655	7
1118	9

- Miss Rox

Final Grades

7°B here are your grades:)
If you have any doubts let me know.

Matrícula	Bim. 1
220	6
404	8
689	10
377	9
308	9
1117	10
179	7
849	7
387	9
542	9
184	9
418	9
617	8
369	9
930	9
186	10
214	9
210	9
906	8
825	9
234	9
225	8
1062	9
651	8
175	8
420	10
435	7

- Miss Rox

Compound verbs Ppp

Here's the power point presentation about Compound verbs.


Click here

Compound Sentences

Example:

•  Ana likes to go out with her friends, take pictures with them, and talk to them, but she is only allowed to go out if she does her homework.

The previous would be a compound sentence using compound verbs. See the sentence on their own:

• Ana likes to go out with her friends, take pictures with them, and talk to them

Notice that I am listing several actions, being the verbs on that sentence, and they are together, I listed together or else the sentence would be like this:

• Ana likes to go out with her friends
• Ana likes to take pictures with her friends
• Ana likes to talk to her friends.

Remember about the common denominator, in this case being what Ana likes to do, and who she is doing it with, her friends.
The same goes to the next sentence.

• She is only allowed to go out if she does her homework, and cleans her room.
• She is only allowed to go out if she does her homework
• She is only allowed to go out if sh cleans her room.

Same common denominator, she, and the things that she has to do before she goes out.

REMEMBER THIS:
ALWAYS use commas (,) to separate verbs, and the the two sentences.
Also the requirement:
BOTH SENTENCES HAVE TO MAKE SENSE ON IT'S OWN. Because in the end, they are two sentences joined together, so they were one simple sentence in the beginning.

CONTEXT CLUES

You can figure out the meaning of a word by looking at its context (words and phrases around it)

These words can provide clues to the word’s meaning.

DESCRIPTION CLUES

He did not trust the woman not to trust him. And he did not want to be mistrusted now.

Descriptionà  that represents something in words.

Which words tell us what the meaning of mistrusted is?

DEFINITION AND RESTATEMENT CLUES

Words that restate unfamiliar word’s meanings.

•       They tell you the meaning of other words (in a simpler language)

•       Restatement clues may be signaled by commas or by words like as, or, that is, in other words, and also.

EXAMPLE

•       Roger looked as though he were frail. In other words, he looked weak and thin in his tennis shoes and jeans.

EXAMPLE CLUES

Illustrates another words’ meaning by providing examples. Words like including and such as often signal example clues.

EXAMPLE:

Mrs. Jones wanted Roger to do things to make him presentable for dinner, such as washing his face and running a comb through his hair.

COMPARISON AND CONTRAST CLUES

Comparisonà illustrates a words’ meaning with a comparison to a more familiar word or idea.

Example:

Mr. Lucas was as portly as a large bear.

Contrastà involves a writer’s idea pointing out differences between words or ideas. They may be signaled by although, but, however, yet, and in contrast

Example:

Zebra at first thought the stranger seemed menacing, but Wilson turned out to be kind and firendly

THEME of stories

The theme of a story is what the author is trying to convey — in other words, the central idea of the story. Short stories often have just one theme, whereas novels usually have multiple themes. The theme of a story is woven all the way through the story, and the characters' actions, interactions, and motivations all reflect the story's theme.
WHAT IS THE AUTHOR TRYING TO TELL YOU?

How to write a short story

The basics of how to write a short story are very different from those describing how to write such as a novel. The simple length of the story will eliminate a lot of the procedures which would be applied to novel writing and the process should therefore not only be quicker but easier.
Think of a short story as a hybrid of a novel and an article and proceed in this fashion. In common with a novel, a short story is fictional but in common with an article, a short story will be required to be only of a certain length.

The first step to writing a short story is to develop our idea as to the basics of the plot. This is very similar to the novel writing process in that we are looking at a beginning, a middle and an end. It will simply mean that the journey upon which we are taking our subsequent readers will be shorter than in a novel. We have to bear this carefully in mind as we develop the plot for our short story therefore and try to stay relevant to the point, just as we would when writing an article. It is frequently the case with short stories that there is a very definite plot "twist" towards the end but this is not absolutely essential and will of course largely depend upon the nature of the story.
The next step is to define the characters which we are to include in our short story.(Remember there's a MINIMUM of 2 characters) This is where the process veers drastically away from the process we would employ at the same stage of planning a novel. A short story does not allow us great scope for character development so whereas, were we writing a novel, we would and should spend some time on this process, it is not necessary with a short story. We are likely to have to name our characters of course and develop any traits which are strictly relevant to the events which will take place in our story but further development would simply be surplus to requirements.
When we come to the actual writing of the short story, the process is similar to article writing. We have to almost rein ourselves in and prevent ourselves from getting carried away. We want the story to be exciting, we want it to grip our readers' attention and keep them reading right to the end; but what we cannot afford is to be overly descriptive in our text in a way which will take the story beyond what we have determined our length limit to be.
Writing a short story is therefore perhaps writing a chapter of a novel with the only significant difference being that we have to tie up all the loose ends at the same time.

Flipcards for the new vocabulary

Here's a lnk  so you can study the vocabulary that we saw.
Some of them are very obvious, but still.
They are flipcards, they tell you the word and you have to think about the answer, and if you don't know the answer, then you can flip the card.

Vocabulary

Plot Triangle

This triangle is the first one that we saw, remember that we added one more stage to our plot.
It will end up looking like this one:

Study Guide

Here are the main topics that you have to study.
We WILL have a review on class. Remember that our exam is this Thursday.
So, in the first two classes we will have a review.
NOTE: The first class will be about the Zebra reading, and a complete review.
And for homework you will study everything that we saw AND write all of your doubts on your notebook.
The second class we will have a quick quiz, and I will be solving all of your doubts and concerns.

• First PPP
• Main differences between a short story and a novel.
• Being able to identify plot, characters, and theme of a short story or novel.
• Being able to make a plot triangle out of a story
• Questions about the readings:
• Seventh Grade
• Thank You M'am
• Names/Nombres
• Zebra
• Context Clues
• Prefixes
• Compound sentences
• Compound verbs

I don't mean to wish you good luck, because learning is not about luck, it is about being able to use your brain, and analyzing.

Have a nice exam week!

Miss Rox.

Power Point Presentations

Hello!
From now on I will consider on uploading the PPP's, this will be up to you, if you work in silence and on time.

Here's the 1st presentation that we had, the one that talks about the short stories and novels.

The next entry will be your study guide, and some links that will help you study better.

Miss Rox.

Learning the Language of Literature