Tuesday, 10 April 2012

1.  Comparison is when you tell how things are alike or different.  This allows us to tell what things are like.

2.  Identify adjectives in the song It's Not Easy Bein' Green  Click here for lyrics 

  • Adjectives are words that help describe or modify nouns or pronouns. 
  • Draw your hand.  Select 5 adjectives that describe you and write one on each finger.
  • Write a song in the same style as It's Not Easy Bein' Green, but use one of the adjectives from your hand drawing.
3.  Begin Unit 6 Tell me! What's it like?, page 46.
4.  Get into your Newspaper Teams:
  1. Decide on a name for your newspaper
  2. Decide each person's role on the newspaper: Which section each person will write (examples: sports, culture, entertainment, local news, national news, world news, weather (local, national world); what overall roles you will have on the newspaper if any (editor, photographer, artist)
  3. Explore the Word document Gallery for the newspaper format you would like to use as a team.
  4. Decide on some articles you will each work on for next week's first publication.
5.  Homework: Do page 33 in your Workbook.