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"A sentence should be alive...Sentences need energy to make the meaning jump off the page and into the reader's head. As a writer you must embed energy in the sentence--coil the spring, set the trap." (Peter Elbow, Writing with Power)

**Bell Ringer: Word Study** (15 minutes)
 * In your binder in **vocabulary section**, create a T-chart with //disgusting// on one side and //arrogant// on the other. Brainstorm a list of synonyms for each.
 * Pair-and-Share: Two sixty-second rounds.
 * Using an online dictionary and/or thesaurus, add more words to your list.
 * Pair-and-Share: Two sixty-second rounds.
 * Discuss **loathsome **and **supercilious **//.//
 * Below the T-chart you created, add a four-square (as shown in picture at right). to define loathsome and supercilious.
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**Read Aloud and Free Write (15 minutes) **

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 * Excerpt from //My Antonia// (Book I, Part VII, paragraph beginning, "We were examining a big hole...")
 * In Writer's Notebook, make a list of things/experiences/people you find //loathsome// or //supercilious//.
 * Choose one, and free write for ten (10) minutes.

[[image:cameraZoom.jpg width="150" height="90" align="left"]]Mini-Lesson: Zooming in with Participles (30 minutes)

 * Quick assessment: Paper Tri-fold (opener, interrupter, closer)--write three sentences with participial phrases (-ing or -ed verbs).

**Independent Reading/Writing Time** (25 minutes)

Final copy of essay due TODAY!
 * Make any needed revisions for your essay and turn in to me via Google Docs:
 * >SHARE (top right-side) >Email editors/viewers
 * To: 2010cafe19@gmail.com
 * Message: Sally's final essay (Substitute your name for Sally!)
 * Click Send.
 * ** IMPORTANT **: If you haven't changed the document, from PRIVATE, you must do so. The pictures at right show you how.

**Share Time (5 minutes) **
 * Add one of your participial phrase sentences to the wiki discussion, or add it to a sentence strip and attach to Wall Chart.