Mr.Kochis–7thGradeReading

12/11/17-Day2

ATB:WordoftheDay

Copythedefinitionofthewordbelowandanswerthemultiple

choicequestion.unsightly \ ˌən-ˈsīt-lē \ adjective : unpleasant to look at

The city is moving slowly to replace the vegetation, but the

landscape remains unsightly, keeping visitors away. Source: Los Angeles Times

In this sentence, unsightly means:

A. unattractive

B. continuous

C. unaffordable

D. distinctive https://nyti.ms/2BPHpOG

Activities:1.SlakesLimboChapters1-2Quiz

2.ReadSlakesLimboChapters3-5

3.SlakesLimboChapters3-5Alphaboxes

Obj.1.Listsynonymandantonymsforunfamiliarwords.

2.ExplainaconflictinthenovelSlakesLimbo.

AlphaBoxes Slakes Limbo – Chapters ________

List vocabulary words that you find in the story in the assigned chapters. Identify a synonym and antonym for

each word.

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Slakes Limbo Chapters 3-5 Questions

1. Describe Slake’s new “room.” page 20 2. What kind of business did Slake undertake? How did he get the idea for his new business? page 31 3. In “On Another Track,” what did Willis Joe remember telling his grandmother? How did she react to his news? page 37 4. What were Slake’s two main sources of supply for his newspaper business? page 39 5. How did Slake become an expert subway traveler? page 43 6. Slake earned some money to buy food by reselling secondhand newspapers. Do you think that Slake was basically honest or dishonest? opinion 7. Do you think Slake is a “worthless lump”? opinion

Mr. Kochis-7th Grade Reading 12/12/17 Day 3 ATB: What’s Going On in This Picture?

Type 1: After looking closely at the image above, answer the three questions below in one paragraph. 1. What is going on in this picture?

2. What do you see that makes you say that? 3. What more can you find?

https://nyti.ms/2jLXZs7 Activities:1.FinishReadingSlake’sLimboChapters3-5

3.CompleteSlake’sLimboChapters3-5AlphaboxesandChapter

Questions

Obj. 1. Describe Slakes daily routine in the subway. 2.Summarize the beginning of the novel Slake’s Limbo.

12/13/17 - Day 4 ATB: Country of the Week – Portugal Answer the multiple choice questions. When you are done check your answers with the link below. 1. Identify where Portugal would be on the map below.

2. Music

_____________, the Portuguese tradition of elegant, emotive songs filled with tragedy and longing, entwines Portuguese song with tinges of Arabic music and echoes of the Portuguese empire returning to that port city: from Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde and perhaps Macao.

A. Fado B. Salsa C. Samba D. Tango

3. Geography

Everything old is new again in the Portuguese capital, ___________. Throughout the hilly metropolis on the Tagus River, fading structures and spaces are being stylishly reborn. Once-forlorn neighborhood markets have undergone ambitious renovations and currently form the city’s newest hot spots for dining and drinking.

A. Barcelona B. Lisbon C. Madrid D. São Paulo

4. Geography

In Portugal’s second most populous city, medieval townhouses stack up beside the Douro River like Legos, and churches wear their blue-and-white azulejo tiles outside as well as in. Settled by the Romans, and famous for its port wines, which became a favored export to England, ______________ was a lucky beneficiary of its country’s vast, centuries-spanning empire. Its riverside location made it an important industrial center in the 1700s and 1800s.

A. Bordeaux B. Champagne C. El Puerto de Santa María D. Porto

5. Sports

_______________, born and raised on the Portuguese island of Madeira, began his senior club career playing for Sporting Lisbon - at the age of 12. He would go on to become one of the finest players in history, a three-time winner of the World Player of the Year Award, a three-time winner of the Champions League, a champion of Europe with Portugal and, for a while, the world’s most expensive player.

A. Diego Maradona B. Lionel Messi C. Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento) D. Cristiano Ronaldo

https://nyti.ms/2jNkkFp Activities: 1.Flocabulary–FigurativeLanguageVideo(CirclethetypesoffigurativeLanguageinthesongandunderlineexamples.)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPjAiUbdl142.FigurativeLanguageTable–Usetheinformationfromthesongtocompletethetablebelow.

3.CompleteSlake’sLimbochapters3-5QuestionsandAlphaboxes.SeeAlphaboxwordsbelow.(periscopic,singed,tenement,gullet,contingent,unobtrusively,fetid,mosaic,excursions,adept)Obj.1.Listdifferenttypesoffigurativelanguage. 2.Explainwhyauthorsusefigurativelanguage.

FigurativeLanguageTable

Figurative Language Definition From Song Example From Song

1

FigurativeLanguage"Wordplay"

MeetWill,ayoungin'withanoldsoul,

Anemceewhowantstobethenexttoblow.

Imagine:he'sinadarkroominManhattan,

Scrapping,scribblingonnapkins,

Tryingtomakealivingoffrapping,

Butskills,helackedthem.Nobodythoughtthatitwouldhappen,

Untiloneday,Willswitcheshisstyle,

Getsdeep,andhiswordplaygetswittyandwild.

Heusedtosoundsoembarrassing,

Nowpeepallthemetaphorsandcomparisons.

Hislifeisahighway,buthe'dconfess,

HehasaplanbutneedsaGPS.

He'susingreferencesandallusions,

AlyricalHoudini,creatingillusions.

Dolphinsin'72-hewon'tlose,

Upbythefirstalarm,he'snotsnoozing.

You'llbeamazedbyeveryphrase,

Hewillcomecorrectwiththewordplay.

Literallinesthatblockhisway,

Hewillcomecorrectwiththewordplay.(x2)

Comparingwithlikeoras,he'sdroppingsimiles,

Takinglittlestepslikeacentipede.

He'ssharplikealaser,sharpasarazor,

InanightasdarkasDarthVader.

Dudecanjukeandadjusthisposition,

Contrastingtwothingsinjuxtaposition,

Fromweaktomade,cheaptopaid,

Acreeptoadudewholeadstheway.

Usingpersonification,what'shedoing?

Makingobjectsandanimalsseemhuman.

NameName DateDate

2

Themoonsmilesasthecitybreathes,

Hecanfeeltheheartbeatofthecitystreets.

Aliveshow?Youreallyoughtaseeit.

Willwilldropsomeonomatopoeia,

Wordsthatsoundlikewhattheydescribe,

Nowthecrowd'sbuzzing-it'salive.

You'llbeamazedbyeveryphrase,

Hewillcomecorrectwiththewordplay.

Literallinesthatblockhisway,

Hewillcomecorrectwiththewordplay.(x2)

Willheexaggerate?Usehyperbole?

He'sthebesteveratit,socertainly.

Withassonance,vowelsoundshe'srepeating,

Heseemstheleastbeatinanyseason.

Hisfansarelegion,alltheboneheadswhobringbeef

Leavewithlotsoflyricallesions.

That'salliteration-samesoundsentence,

It'scommonsense-he'scalmwiththeconfidence.

Usingirony,oppositemeaning,

Hislineshitassoftasiron,believehim,

Goodwiththepunsandthewordplay,ohmy,

Goingdeepindoublemeaningsliketheywereacoalmine.

Will'sskillsaresicklikeERs,youheardofthis?

Gethitandyou'llseestarslikeCopernicus.

Ifyouonlyhaveonechancetoshine,

Youbettergetup,getoutandgowild.

Mr.Kochis-7thGradeReading12/14/17Day5ATB:What’sGoingOninThisGraph?

Type 1: After looking closely at the image above, answer the three questions below. • What do you notice? Share what you are noticing and what this may imply. • What do you wonder? Where could you find the answers to what you wonder? • What’s going on in this graph? Use what you notice. What can you infer from this graph beyond what it shows directly? What’s the deeper story that comes from this graph? https://nyti.ms/2l5pIao Activities:1.SecondQuarterNotebookCheck#1–TestmozQuestions2.FigurativeLanguageTable–Usetheinformationfromthesongandthefigurativelanguagenotesbelowtocompletethetablefrom12/13.3.CompleteSlake’sLimbochapters3-5QuestionsandAlphaboxes-QuizFriday12/15.Obj.1.Interpretwhatagraphiscommunicating.2.Listexamplesofdifferenttypesoffigurativelanguage.

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FigurativeLanguage"Wordplay"

Learnmoreaboutthistopic!Eachsectiongivesmoredetailononeofthelyricsfromthesong.Readeachsection,and

thenrespondbyansweringthequestionortakingnotesonkeyideas.

Lyric:metaphorsLyric:metaphors

Lifeisahighway.

Ametaphormetaphorisacomparisonbetween

twothingsorideastoshowhowoneof

thethingsissimilartotheother.Unlikea

simile,ametaphordoesnotusethe

words"like"or"as."

Notes

Lyric:allusionsLyric:allusions

*He'salyricalHoudini.*

Anallusionallusionisadirectorindirectreferenceto

somethinghistorical,literary,religiousor

mythical.Allusionscanhelppeoplesee

uniqueconnectionsbetweentwoideas.

Notes

Lyric:similesLyric:similes

*Takinglittlestepslikeacentipede.*

Asimilesimileisacomparisonoftwothings

usingthewordslikeoras.

Notes

NameName DateDate

2

Lyric:juxtapositionLyric:juxtaposition

*Hewentfromweaktomade.*

Juxtaposit ionJuxtaposit ioniswhentwounlikethings

arepositionednexttoeachother.

Notes

Lyric:personificationLyric:personification

*Themoonsmiles.*

Whenanauthorgivesobjects,conceptsor

animalshumancharacteristics,emotionsor

abilities,that'spersonificat ionpersonificat ion.

Notes

Lyric:onomatopoeiaLyric:onomatopoeia

*Thecrowdisbuzzzzzzzing.*

OnomatopoeiaOnomatopoeiaisthenameforwords

thatsoundlikewhattheydescribe.

Notes

Lyric:hyperboleLyric:hyperbole

*He'sthebestever!*

HyperboleHyperboleisapurposefulexaggerationor

overstatement.

Notes

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Lyric:assonanceLyric:assonance

*Heseemstheleastbeatinanyseason.*

AssonanceAssonanceisthesmoothest,coolest,

loosestliterarytermontheblock.Itisthe

repetitionofvowelsoundsinwordsthat

areclosetogether,anditissometimes

knownas"internalrhyme"or"slant

rhyme."

Notes

Lyric:alliterationLyric:alliteration

*Boneheadswhobringbeefleavewithlots

oflyricallesions.*

Alliterat ionAlliterat ionistherepetitionofsounds,

especiallythefirstconsonantsoundsin

twoormoreneighboringwords.

Remember,consonantsareanyletter

that’snotavowel.

Notes

Lyric:ironyLyric:irony

*Hislineshitassoftasiron?*

Whenyouuseverbalironyverbalirony ,yousay

onething,butyouactuallymeanthe

opposite.Itcantaketheformof

sarcasm,overstatementor

understatement.Ironyisalsowhenthe

oppositeofwhatyouexpectactually

happens.

Notes

Lyric:punsLyric:puns

*Gethitandyou'llseestarslike

Copernicus.*

Whenyoumakeapun,you'reexploiting

orplayingwiththemultiplemeaningsof

words.

Notes

Mr. Kochis – 7th Grade Reading 12/15/17 Day 1 ATB: Picture Prompt?

Type 2: Write a topic sentence with T “T,”ART for a literary work inspired by the photo above. Pretend you are the author. https://nyti.ms/2nXMYIt Activities: 1. Slake’s Limbo Chapters 3-5 Kahoot Quiz 2. Read “New York City Subway System Opens” and “Our Subway, Ourselves: Images Through the Ages” from the New York Times and answer the 5 W Questions Obj. 1. Write a paragraph to summarize the history of the New York City Subway. 2. Draw a picture to illustrate the subway system in New York City.

The New York Times

Oct. 27, 1904 | New York City Subway System Opens By The Learning Network October 27, 2011 4:05 am

Detroit Publishing Company/Library of CongressPassengers on New York City’s new subway system bought tickets at offices in the stations, like this one at City Hall, photographed around the time of the first ride, on Oct. 27, 1904. On Oct. 27, 1904, the first rapid transit subway, the Interborough Rapid Transit (I.R.T.), opened in New York City. The line ran approximately nine miles from City Hall north to Grand Central Station, then west to Times Square and up the West Side to 145th Street. The New York Times described the excitement among city dwellers for the subway’s opening: “For the first time in his life Father Knickerbocker went underground yesterday; went underground, he and his children, to the number of 150,000, amid the tooting of whistles and the firing of salutes, for a first ride in a subway which for years had been scoffed at as an impossibility.” The first underground railway system, the Metropolitan Railway, opened in London in 1863. The trains ran on steam, which caused problems in the tunnels, but the system proved popular. A competing London metro system introduced electric trains in 1890, which made underground transit more practical. Though the first subway in the United States opened in 1897 in Boston, New York eventually became the American city most associated with underground transportation. After receiving city contracts in 1913, the I.R.T. and rival Brooklyn Rapid Transit (B.R.T.) increased the number of subway lines. These make up most of the modern subway lines the city has today. In 1932, New York City formed the Independent Subway System (IND), taking over the I.R.T. and its remaining private competitor, Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, in 1940. New York subway riders can still see remnants of the old subway system. Connect to Today: Today, the New York City Subway system has 22 interconnected routes and three shuttles running more than 200 miles among 468 stations, nearly as many stations as there are in the rest of the United States combined. In recent years, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subway and other transportation in New York, used a series of fare hikes, layoffs and other cost- cutting measures to cope with budget woes.

OurSubway,Ourselves:ImagesThroughtheAgesByDAVIDW.DUNLAP OCT.21,2010YOU can smell these photos, can’t you? You can hear them. You can feel them. If you’re a New Yorker of a certain age, you can even taste them. (God help us, there were fast-food counters in the Times Square station until a generation ago. ) To mark the subway’s 106th birthday this week, Metropolitan and the Lens blog offer the first extensive gallery of subway pictures by staff photographers of The New York Times. In showing us the subway, they show us ourselves sharing a great underground and elevated common, a leveler of prince and pauper, Bloomberg and Jazzbo, where everyone is entitled — or condemned — to the same experience. There are no business-class subway cars; no wood-paneled IRT Club waiting rooms; no five-star concierge booths for the exclusive use of platinum MetroCard holders. Nor is it saying anything new to note the democracy of the subway. But these images underscore how much of the city can be read in its mass-transit system. As the 20th century opened, New York was an industrial crucible, muscular and brutal, but flirting with progressivism and confident of its role at the cutting edge of the new electric technology. By midcentury, the subway was a nickel-a-ride fact of life for generations that had grown up knowing no other way to get around town. In the 1960s and ’70s, the subway became a barometer — safe passage was no longer guaranteed. The troubles and spoliation boiling down below would not be confined there very long. Then, within sight of the 21st century, the subway bounded back in the flash of stainless steel and the gleam of fresh-scrubbed ceramic. Chang W. Lee’s picture of two young girls playing aboard an N train, taken this month, calls to mind nothing so much as Allyn Baum’s photo of an impromptu family card game aboard a Rockaway shuttle, taken 52 years ago. You may come away from this photo essay convinced that — for all our differences — we really are all waiting for the same train. http://nyti.ms/20bTxye HOW old is the New York City subway system? WHERE in the subway were there once fast-food counters? WHEN did a ride cost a nickle? WHY, according to this short essay, has the subway been “a leveler of prince and pauper”? WHAT is the name of the authority that runs the subway in New York City? WHO took his children on the subway the day it opened?