Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 9/27/2015

Objective: To demonstrate understanding of "The Landlady" by: Roald Dahl by participating in an accountable talk discussion as well as teaching peers about a particular element of the story.

Agenda:
1) Warm-Up: Brainstory 1-3 questions or comments to bring up in our whole class discussion
2) Accountable Talk discussion about "The Landlady" by: Roald Dahl
3) Jigsaw into expert groups to discuss your specific role and make a visual for your group.
4)Jigsaw into home groups to teach your table about your story element.

Homework:

1) Go outside and do something worth writing about for tomorrow's journal.
                                     OR
2)Scene Picture - Draw a fully detailed picture of a scene in the story that sticks out the most to you.  Your picture MUST be accompanied by a quote from the story. (Use the quoting info below!)



In the Important Links to the write you will find a wonderful resource for you, a citing guide!!  For the sake of tonight's homework please follow the rules below.

"Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah," (Dahl 173).

STEPS:
1.) Put the borrowed words in quotation marks
2.) Replace the end period with a comma (if the end mark is a question mark or an exclamation point, leave it there and do not make it a comma).
3.) End your quotation marks
4.) Add parentheses and put the author's name and the page number from the textbook
5.) Put a period after the parentheses.

OR

If you are taking dialogue for your quote, you need to write your quote differently.
"'Blah blah blah blah blah,' said Billy Weaver," (Dahl 173).

STEPS:
1.) Start with your opening quotation mark.
2.) Then add an apostrophe (one mark of the quotation mark) to show that someone is speaking.
3.) Write the quote.  Where they end their quotation marks add an apostrophe and continue copying the words from the text.
4.)  Replace the end period with a comma (if the end mark is a question mark or an exclamation point, leave it there and do not make it a comma).
5.) End your quotation marks
6.) Add parentheses and put the author's name and the page number from the textbook
7.) Put a period after the parentheses.