Significant moment

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByOeg9CkwuCBRFBQMjIwWjlsUnM/view?usp=sharing

Female Computers of WW2 - Saturday school assignment

Rosies article and pictures
Top Secret Rosies movie trailer
Read the article and write an ACES response to the following prompt:

Women were on the ground floor of the development of the modern computer age, yet were pushed out very quickly. How did viewing/reading about Top Secret Rosies, a story of women, math, technology and war, change your ideas about women and computer careers? 

Study guides and practice

Study guides for reading workshop quizzes: 
Greek and Latin roots
More roots
Prefixes
Suffixes
Prepositions
Punctuation
Making inferences explanation and practice
Making inferences
Colons, Dashes, Hyphens, Parentheses
Ellipses

Idioms
Figurative Language Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Figurative language practice

Extension work:
Poetry analysis strategies
Practice AP Literature and Composition exam with answers

Making inferences

Watch the following video. When you are finished, work on this graphic organizer as you are reading your workshop book.

Hyphens, Dashes, Parentheses, Ellipses AND figurative language

Here is the slideshow in case you don't want to here my voice in the 30 minute punctuation video:
Punctuation slideshow w/o voiceover

Click this link if you want full screen.

or watch the embedded video below

Central Idea

Central Idea Lesson

1) Watch the video below to find strategies for determining the main idea of a nonfiction text

2) Read this article: Sotomayer and identify statements and images in the text that fall into these categories: genre, author's purpose, text features, supporting details, recurring images (phrases, words, symbols). Color-code the article just like the video demonstrates.

3) Using the information you identified in the article, complete this graphic organizer: Central Idea graphic organizer

4) As you read your biography in class tomorrow, work on finding central idea in passages, chapters, and paragraphs. Use this graphic organizer: Central Idea independent reading practice.

Prepositional phrases lesson - 3/2

1. Study the information in this Prepositional phrase powerpoint.

2. Follow the directions to complete this practice activity: Prepositional phrase practice.

3. Complete this graphic organizer as you read your autobiography/biography/memoir:
    Prepositional phrase skills sheet/graphic organizer

Answers to movie trive: https://docs.google.com/a/chccs.k12.nc.us/document/d/1KG2GjqRv4W3n-KqvxWA2o-Fip_X3kXQ36VRlbNd6cNk/edit?usp=sharing