Mr. Kochis 7 th Grade Reading 12/11/17 - Day 2 ATB: Word of the Day Copy the definition of the word below and answer the multiple choice question. 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. Slakes Limbo Chapters 1-2 Quiz 2. Read Slakes Limbo Chapters 3-5 3. Slakes Limbo Chapters 3-5 Alphaboxes Obj. 1. List synonym and antonyms for unfamiliar words. 2. Explain a conflict in the novel Slakes Limbo.
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. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W XYZ
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-7 th 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. Finish Reading Slake s Limbo Chapters 3-5 3. Complete Slake s Limbo Chapters 3-5 Alphaboxes and Chapter 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 Figurative Language Video (Circle the types of figurative Language in the song and underline examples.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opjaiubdl14 2. Figurative Language Table Use the information from the song to complete the table below.
3. Complete Slake s Limbo chapters 3-5 Questions and Alphaboxes. See Alphabox words below. (periscopic, singed, tenement, gullet, contingent, unobtrusively, fetid, mosaic, excursions, adept) Obj. 1. List different types of figurative language. 2. Explain why authors use figurative language.
Figurative Language Table Figurative Language Definition From Song Example From Song
Name Date e Figurative Language "Wordplay" Meet Will, a youngin' with an old soul, An emcee who wants to be the next to blow. Imagine: he's in a dark room in Manhattan, Scrapping, scribbling on napkins, Trying to make a living off rapping, But skills, he lacked them. Nobody thought that it would happen, Until one day, Will switches his style, Gets deep, and his wordplay gets witty and wild. He used to sound so embarrassing, Now peep all the metaphors and comparisons. His life is a highway, but he'd confess, He has a plan but needs a GPS. He's using references and allusions, A lyrical Houdini, creating illusions. Dolphins in '72 - he won't lose, Up by the first alarm, he's not snoozing. You'll be amazed by every phrase, He will come correct with the wordplay. Literal lines that block his way, He will come correct with the wordplay. (x2) Comparing with like or as, he's dropping similes, Taking little steps like a centipede. He's sharp like a laser, sharp as a razor, In a night as dark as Darth Vader. Dude can juke and adjust his position, Contrasting two things in juxtaposition, From weak to made, cheap to paid, A creep to a dude who leads the way. Using personification, what's he doing? Making objects and animals seem human. 1
The moon smiles as the city breathes, He can feel the heartbeat of the city streets. A live show? You really oughta see it. Will will drop some onomatopoeia, Words that sound like what they describe, Now the crowd's buzzing - it's alive. You'll be amazed by every phrase, He will come correct with the wordplay. Literal lines that block his way, He will come correct with the wordplay. (x2) Will he exaggerate? Use hyperbole? He's the best ever at it, so certainly. With assonance, vowel sounds he's repeating, He seems the least beat in any season. His fans are legion, all the boneheads who bring beef Leave with lots of lyrical lesions. That's alliteration - same sound sentence, It's commonsense - he's calm with the confidence. Using irony, opposite meaning, His lines hit as soft as iron, believe him, Good with the puns and the wordplay, oh my, Going deep in double meanings like they were a coal mine. Will's skills are sick like ERs, you heard of this? Get hit and you'll see stars like Copernicus. If you only have one chance to shine, You better get up, get out and go wild. 2
Mr. Kochis-7 th Grade Reading 12/14/17 Day 5 ATB: What s Going On in This Graph? 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. Second Quarter Notebook Check #1 Testmoz Questions 2. Figurative Language Table Use the information from the song and the figurative language notes below to complete the table from 12/13. 3. Complete Slake s Limbo chapters 3-5 Questions and Alphaboxes - Quiz Friday 12/15. Obj. 1. Interpret what a graph is communicating. 2. List examples of different types of figurative language.
Name Date e Figurative Language "Wordplay" Learn more about this topic! Each section gives more detail on one of the lyrics from the song. Read each section, and then respond by answering the question or taking notes on key ideas. Lyric: metaphors Life is a highway. A metaphor is a comparison between two things or ideas to show how one of the things is similar to the other. Unlike a simile, a metaphor does not use the words "like" or "as." Lyric: allusions *He's a lyrical Houdini.* An allusion is a direct or indirect reference to something historical, literary, religious or mythical. Allusions can help people see unique connections between two ideas. Lyric: similes *Taking little steps like a centipede.* A simile is a comparison of two things using the words like or as. 1
Lyric: juxtaposition *He went from weak to made.* Juxt aposit ion is when two unlike things are positioned next to each other. Lyric: personification *The moon smiles.* When an author gives objects, concepts or animals human characteristics, emotions or abilities, that's personificat ion. Lyric: onomatopoeia *The crowd is buzzzzzzzing.* Onomatopoeia opoeia is the name for words that sound like what they describe. Lyric: hyperbole *He's the best ever!* Hyperboley is a purposeful exaggeration or overstatement. 2
Lyric: assonance *He seems the least beat in any season.* Assonance is the smoothest, coolest, loosest literary term on the block. It is the repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together, and it is sometimes known as "internal rhyme" or "slant rhyme." Lyric: alliteration *Boneheads who bring beef leave with lots of lyrical lesions.* Allit erat ion is the repetition of sounds, especially the first consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words. Remember, consonants are any letter that s not a vowel. Lyric: irony *His lines hit as soft as iron?* When you use verbal irony, you say one thing, but you actually mean the opposite. It can take the form of sarcasm, overstatement or understatement. Irony is also when the opposite of what you expect actually happens. Lyric: puns *Get hit and you'll see stars like Copernicus.* When you make a pun, you're exploiting or playing with the multiple meanings of words. 3
Mr. Kochis 7 th 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.
Our Subway, Ourselves: Images Through the Ages By DAVID W. DUNLAP OCT. 21, 2010 YOU 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?