LA agenda for 8-24-10/Tuesday1. DGP/DRP

2. Pronouns and song3. Narrative writing

4. Life Maps

HWK: DGP quiz #1 tomorrow-STUDY!! Only 6 more days to turn in summer reading!!

DGP-Tuesday

• four cats ran quickly through the yard

DRP-Tuesday

• 6. A synonym for eaten away found in the selection is__________.

• 7. What does the word carat mean ?• vegetable weight of a diamond

proofreading marks• 8. An antonym for fake found in the selection

is __________.• 9. The prefix semi means____________.

The topic sentence

• The topic: blue jeans

• A specific detail: invented by Levi Strauss during gold rush

• A good topic sentence: Blue jeans were invented by a man named Levi Strauss during the California gold rush.

Hook-Ist paragraph

• Turtle Lady• When we first moved to Florida, Dad and I went to

the ocean every week and enjoyed just taking walks on the beach. The beach was usually deserted, except for some seagulls and a few sand crabs. However, one night, we spotted a campfire way down the beach. We went to check it out. As we got closer, we saw someone sitting in the sand near the dying flames. The glow of the fire revealed an old woman wearing a long orange coat and a red bandanna.

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• “Stop right there! Don’t move,” the woman whispered loudly. Not far from where I stood, I made out the shape of a huge turtle digging in the sand. “That turtle needs her space right now.”