Literacy Skills for 6-1/LaBarbera/Feb. 2-Feb. 9,2010

Literacy Skills for 6-1/LaBarbera/Feb. 2-Feb. 9, 2010.

1. There is no extended response due on Feb. 8.
2. Extended responses will resume. The next response is due Tuesday, Feb. 16. The prompt is:
Identify the antagonist and the protagonist in the novel you are reading. Who is the promoter of solution? Who adds "salt to the wound", or trouble to an already negative situation? Use the 4 point rubric.
3. We are reading the mysteries: And Then There Were None, The Westing Game, and Shakespeare's Secrets.
4. Vocabulary for mystery : crime, criminal, witness, suspect, detective, clue, red herring, fingerpring, lawyer, defense, evidence, forensic science, public defender, bail, prison, jury, judge, trial, alleged, camera surveillance, interrogation, crime scene.
The project for this unit is to write a three to five minute mystery. There will be a graphic organizer to complete for planning the draft. The final typed draft of the short mystery is due February 25.

In preparation for the March 2,3,4,5, 6 ISAT tests, we are working on skills: inferential comprehension, character motivation, identifying words in context, and figurative language.