Week 8 Day 2
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You made it to week 8 day 2. Let’s mark another day down in the books and get going.
Watch the Agenda and Instruction video below to get started.
Vocabulary
The “words of the day” are dialogue and idiom. Map out both of these words using your Word Web.
Then take the quoted idioms within the passage below and tell me what they mean:
Some people might be willing to give you “a penny for your thoughts,” but personally I think, “actions speak louder than words”. Regardless, the “ball is in your court,” tell me what you think about these 3 idioms.
Interpret these 3 idioms. What do they mean?
A penny for your thoughts
Actions speak louder than words
The ball is in your court
Writing:
After today’s Reading of The Lightning Thief, I would like you to analyze the text making inferences about Character traits based on dialogue analysis.
Remember-
Dialogue is the speaking part of the text, indicated by quotation marks.
Using inferences is when you use information within a given text, or passage and combine it with background information (what you already know) to come to some new conclusion.
Making an inference is sometimes called, “reading between the lines”. It is necessary to make inferences, because an author will not always tell you things explicitly. They may drop hints and clues through either dialogue, narration, and or through character actions but then it’s up to you to draw your own conclusions.
So today, your assignment will be to look at the dialogue going on between the characters of The Lightning Thief, and then make inferences.
In other words, what does the character say and what does this reveal about him or her? Does it reveal ideas, principles, emotions or other things not explicitly stated? Why are they saying it? What are they implying? What are their motivations? Finally, What are they trying to achieve?
You can also make inferences by analyzing what the characters say and contrast this against what they do. You can analyze how characters think as expressed by their dialogue. You can analyze how characters interact with other characters within the story. Or, you can even analyze what characters say about other characters.
*Make sure to watch the Agenda video as I will give you some specific examples and role model for you, how to do this. Then, print up the worksheet that goes along with this assignment and have it on hand to copy some quotes down as we read through today’s reading of The Lightning Thief.
Reading:
Let’s head up to Mount Olympus, catch up with Percy, and find out if he can make peace between the “goods and no-goods”.
Come on. Follow me, straight to the Empire State Building… Press floor 600. Wait. Ah, ah, ah,... Wait some more. Bing. Finally, we’re here.
Now, quickly, off to the palace. Yes. This is it. Everybody, shhh. Let’s just take a seat here quietly behind Percy as he takes an audience with Zeus.
This is going to be interesting. I can’t wait to hear what these “goods or no-goods” have to say for themselves.
(*Remember to write some quotes down from this dialogue as part of your assignment).
Math
We will look at the standard long division process and compare it to division with partial quotients. Then you will have a chance to practice your hand at a few of these after watching another video from Khan Academy.