All students read for 10 minutes. We practiced diagramming prepositional phrases in preparation for the quiz tomorrow. Students wrote some practice sentences on a note card to take home with them to help them study for tomorrow's quiz.
In groups, students worked on a dialogue analysis activity. Each group was given an excerpt from a novel that contained a lot of dialogue. After reading the excerpt, students wrote down in their Reader's Notebooks what they learned about the characters in each excerpt. They then supported their arguments by recording the exact dialogue that clued them into different aspects of the character. Students were asked to look not just at character's personality traits, but also where the character was from, possible education level, regional idioms or slang used, etc. based upon the dialogue used.
Homework: Study for the prepositional phrase quiz tomorrow!
*Parents, ask your children to diagram some prepositional phrases for you. Make sure they are able to identify the preposition, the object of the preposition and any adjectives in the prepositional phrase.
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