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Smith ELL 4 April 3, 2012 Teacher Actions 7:45 Were going to talk about Van Gogh today. Have you all heard of Van Gogh? Have you heard of his famous picture Starry Night? He became famous for landscapes. What is a landscape? You mean longitude/latitude? You understand what landscape is? Its the way the sky and land are drawn in paintings. Van Gogh is really famous for his landscapes. If you look at his paint strokeshe does a lot of scribbles. 7:48 So you see some of Van Goghs most famous paintings. What is similar to the painting in your book? Do you notice anything that is the same about the way he paints? Hes famous for the way he paints the sky. Were going to go ahead and read the poem. Begin poem Do you know what radiance means? Continue poem 7:51 What does solemn mean? Testament? Now that weve heard this poem and weve heard some of the words that are new, lets think about a question: What is being said about stars? Ladies Reading the poem again. Does it sound like this author likes or dislikes the stars? Ladies Student Actions Jose said something about an ear Sugey and Miguel are texting. Jose land that runs away from something. Its this way up and down Jose is listeningSugey and Olivia are talking. Miguel is still texting. Stars, Houses, Moon, Sort of same colorsfrom a variety of students Sugey He sort of scribbles. Jose puts his head down. Hadil and Ga are following along. Nya is watching you. Daisy is spacing out. Abdi and Victor are following along. Sugey is following along. Olivia is staring at the wall. Miguellooking at book or phone? Olivia Doesnt it mean serious? Sugey Are you going to watch Titanic? Nya and Daisy are staring into space. They are not following along in their books. Ga They are cracked. JoseThere are so many hard words I dont understand.

Lets look at the line The stars are soft. Do you think this means that the author likes or dislikes the stars? The darkest trials What does trial mean? Hes sad. Hes having some troubles, right? Whats he saying? The way Im thinking this is that hes having some trouble, but the beauty in the sky helps him. Do we think Van Gogh was happy when he made the painting? Do we think he was sad or happy in this painting? One question for you guys, Do we see any of our vocabulary words in this painting? Asteroid Maybe tonight you guys can think if there are any of our vocabulary words in this picture. 8:00 Lets turn to p.were going to take some notes. If you can get your notebooks out. Personification: this is the word were going to learn today. Youre close. Personification is giving a human quality to an object. Once you write this down, Ill give you some examples and then were going to read a poem trying to find personification. Have any of you heard the word personification? Writing on boardAn example might be, The wind made my homework run away. Homework cant run away. Only humans/animals can run. This is personification. Do you understand? It would be good to have an example.

Ga answers Jose, So the swirls are the stars and galaxy? What does that mean? Jose, Is she pregnant? Sugey and Oliva are talking. Jose No, he cut his ear. Sugey, The colors are dark. Ga Sad Abdi, Stars Sugey and Jose get up to get notebooks. Jose Is that whennever mind. Music/ violin Sugey Is that when you take an object?... Ga, In English class. Sugey, Do we have to copy that? Ga, So.

One second please. The puppy yelled when she left the house. I think that the easiest way to find personification is to find the subject of the sentence. The subject is the noun, right? Usually, a verb follows a noun, right? So, the subject is homework, right? The verb is ran, right? It might be easier to find the subject, right and find the verb, right? Any questions about that? Yes, because a human cries, right? Why would you use personification? Its a way to make writing more interesting. 8:10 Lets look at a poem on p. ________. Yes, the subject and verb are together. Good question. Lets look at the yellow words first. Blinds, plow. Do you know what a plow is? Gentlemen. Im going to read this poem to you and I want you to listen for personification. Reads poem What are some examples of personification? Do human do that? Yes, perfect. What is the subject of this sentence? What is the verb? Do we see any other examples of personification? 8:15 Youre going to work in your groups to see who can change these sentences into personification. Theres going to be prizes for the groups that make up the best

Jose interrupts, Can you rewrite that? The second one is hard to read. Hadil Is it like? Ga, Personification is like____________is crying? Ga, I have a question. So, are the subject and verb always together? Sugeys head is down on her desk. Daisy is playing with her head. Nya put her head down. Victors head down. Sugey is playing with paper. Everyone else is following along. Ga, School Olivia, around Abdi, Stars look down Olivia and Victor heads down and heads up. Nyas head is on her desk. Jose, What prizes? Sugey, Presents!

 Writing sentences on the board. Ok, so what were going to doI have six sentences on the board. Theres a verb in parentheses. Dont worry. What is the subject? What other verb can replace opened that is human (like)? cracked/screeched Yes, quickly How about barked? In your groups, change the verb so you are personifying the subject. Hands out marker boards and markers. After were done with this. I have a prize for groups that do all of these sentences correctly. 8:23 Walking around to check with groups on their progress. Think of verbs only humans can do. Talking to Daisy and Hadil. What do we have for?? Talking to Jose. Talking to Miguel and Sugey. Really? I disagree with you. Lets work on these one-by-one. Lets talk through number three first. The leaf fell through the Please put your phone away. Please put your phone away. Awesome!

Nya leaves to fill up water. Miguel starts talking to Daisy. Ga, So what are we going to do?... Door Oliva, Can I go to the restroom? Jose, Can I get a drink? Abdi What is the prize? Sugey, What are we doing? Jose, The leaf fell off the tree. The leaf jumped off the tree. Now what? Now what? Jose. Sugey standing up and texting. Miguel threw a piece of plastic across the room. Jose, Shes being a Miguel is passing a phone back to Daisy.

Please put your phone away to Daisy. In your bag. 8:30 What are verbs flashlight can do? Any other verbs a flashlight can do? Are any of these verbs something humans can do? Now, in your group, were going to take one minute to work on #5. What can we change this verb to change it to personification? I think sings is my favorite one. Lets look at #6 baseball went out of the park. Go ahead and change went to an example of personification in your group. Do we have any examples of personification? What? Put your phone away. Go ahead and change the verb in your group. What actions can a rocket do? Talking to Miguel, Sugey, and Olivia. Which one do you like best? I think these two are my favorites. Any questions about personifying? Were going to do a couple more examples. Writing on the board. Yes, you can go quickly. Yes, go quickly. Ok, these are a little harder, but I think you can do it. What verbs can we use to personify? The stars _________________in the sky. 8:43 For the last few minutes of class, I would like you to work on these sentences. I need you to choose a verb that personifies this (the subject).

Turn-on, Turn-off, shine, become dark. Nyas head is down. Can I go get a drink? Were not going to be done with this activity until class is over. CD player sings, cries, Nyas head is still down. Left. Ran. Gakidnapped. Jose and Abdi discussingthe rocket ship. Crashed, pushed, hopped, dove Ga You dont like dive? Jose Can I go? Victor, Were going to do another one? Sugey, Can I go to the RR? Abdicried, sing Miguelshine. Jose, The star ate in the sky. Nyas head is down on the desk.

Go ahead in your group and take two minutes to do this on your board please. Theres only 15 minutes left. Its a school rule that the first/last 20 minutes you cant go. Can you wait until passing please? Its an important tool for writing. I have prizes for groups who answered these correctly. 8:48 Now that we understand personification a little bit better, lets listen to that poem again and see if we can find examples of personification Begins reading. Sorry, were on p. ___________ Did we hear any other examples of personification in this poem? Whats human in there? Whats the verb used to personify that? Is that the verb? 8:52 All right. Awesome. I have prizes for you guys for doing that. Passes out candy. For the last couple minutes today, what Id like you to do, Thursday were going to take the last few minutes to do a writing activity. You need to write three sentences using personification. Try to write at least one new sentence using personification. Gentlemen, please write down three sentences. Please take your notebook out.

Miguel, Can I go to the bathroom? Yes Hadil or Daisy Why are we doing this? The hair on my back stood up. The hair on my back grew. The hair on my back ran away. The dog cried in fear. The dog . What page are we on? Sugey returns from the RR. Abdi.I dont know. Sailor. Thank you.

I need to see three sentences before you leave today. I said one needs to be original. You need to have three sentences. Please take your seat please, while she finishes her sentences. I like.good job. I like the third one, good job. I like that one. 8:56 8:58

Jose, you said one. Miguel walks over to Daisy. Students putting things away. Lined up at door.