"Ribbons" Speech

Prepare a paragraph response for each question, and on Monday I will ask you one question for an impromptu speech.

1.       Hypothesize how Grandmother felt about moving to the United States of America.

2.       Evaluate the conflict: How does “Ribbons” show that differences in culture and between generations can lead to misunderstanding?

3.       Evaluate the resolution: How does “The Little Mermaid” provide a way for Stacy and her grandmother to connect?

4.       Judge why Stacy thinks her Grandmother is a hero.

5.       Predict how Stacy and Grandmother’s relationship may change.

Here is the speech rubric.

A	B	C
Speaks with a loud, clear voice and uses meaningful eye contact.	Speaks with a loud, clear voice, but uses little eye contact.	Speaks quietly or mumbling. Uses little eye contact.
Answers the prompt concisely. Supports response with two facts and two story details.	Supports response with one fact and one story detail. Struggles to connect story details and history facts.	Answers the prompt without examples from the text.

Prepare for a Socratic Seminar

Research about Nelson Mandela, apartheid, and the movie Invictus. Write research notes.

Mandela Day

Anti-apartheid movement

If you were absent today, you will need to copy the Socratic Seminar notes in your composition notebook. Also copy the participation goal chart.

Response to Literature Objectives

Students will write simple, compound and complex sentences.

Students will write an effective hook and thesis statement.
Students will support ideas with direct quotations from the literature and personal anecdotes.

Students will organize paragraphs with effective expository transitions.

Students will connect supporting details to the thesis.

Contrast Clauses and Phrases

Review
Clause = Subject + Predicate
(Example) Mrs. Adler dances.

Subordinate conjunctions begin dependent clauses.
(Example) Students laugh because Mrs. Adler dances.

NEW
Prepositional phrases show the position of an object.

Some prepositions are also subordinate conjunctions.

Subordinate Conjunctions	Both	Prepositions
although as soon as because even though when if since that while	after as before until	of about on with in

These are examples of prepositional phrases.
1. The study of weather is called meteorology.
2. Meteorologists make predictions about the weather.
3. Their forecasts are broadcast on television.