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8th-grade language arts lesson on citing textual learning.

I think this is Miss Skinner, eighth grade language arts teacher. And today we're gonna be talking about siding Text. How do we sight picture? We used evidence from the text to support our answer. What is evidence is proving. Is it closed or example, What is text, text or works? Pieces of writing Korea's even our nose. What if the work support me? Support means to help, To reinforce, to give assistance. Toe even needs to hold up. What is an answer? An answer is a response or a reaction to a question. So what is all that may so side of? Textual evidence requires the Raider to look back into the text for evidence to support an idea. It's a question or to make a quint. So how do we provide textual evidence in a text? Well, that's what we're gonna talk about today, and I'm gonna show you an easy way to do that. We're going to use race. Race is an Afridi, Um, or we stay, answer site and explain. So restating is easy. You just restate your question in your answer. So when we answer our question, you just answer your question in your own words. Sometimes this is an inference and other time it stated directly in the text. See, you saw your evidence. So when you saw your evidence, you take it directly out of the text. You can do this one or two ways. You can directly state it from the offer using a direct quote, or you can indirectly state it pair of phrasing with the author sees. You can use different Senate starters to help explain your answers. I'm gonna give you just a couple of Senate starters that you can use. You can say the offer stated. For example, according to the text in paragraph, until me, the number or own page so and so it say it. So at the end of this presentation, I'll give you a pdf that's got all of them so much E a stand forks blunt in your own words. You're going to explain how this evidence supports your answer. And there's also some Senate starters that go along with its blood. You can say as a result up this shows that therefore, this is the call for this reason, the evidence suggests, or it can be concluded that so this is how you would provide textual evidence in a text when your teacher asks you a particular question. So let's give it a drop. Um, I'm good. Pull from the story. Thank you, Mayor. This is a story that are a greater every and so this is one that we're all very familiar with. So in the story, why does Why does Roger steal the first? Well, we all know that Roger still supposed because he wanted about, you know, shoot. So I've restated my question. Roger wants to steal the personally calls. He wanted to buy a new pair of feet. I'm citing my evidence because it says on page six, paragraph 10. The offer wrote I wanted a pair of blue say sweat shoots and explain. Roger was stealing because he wanted to buy she. So now I want you to track. How is miseries, Jones box? So I'm gonna pull up the part of the text so you can look and you can find where it talks about miseries Jones. 1,000,000,000 boss. And it's right here. So I want you to start where the woman say is where the woman said You want to be my son. I would teach you right from wrong. At least I can do now is wash your face. Are you hungry? No one sin the being dragged the boy. I just want you to turn me loose without bothering you. When I turned the corner, said the woman. No. But you put yourself in contact with they said the woman If you think that contact is going to last a while you got another thing coming. When I get through with you, sir, you are going to remember Mrs Luella Bates Washington Jones. So I want you to think about that for a moment, and I hope you to point out to May What? Two places in here You find where Mrs Jones was being, what we would consider bossy. Okay, so tell me what? Okay, So if you say it, you put yourself in contact with May. You are correct. And tell me one more. That is correct when I get through with you, you were going to remember miseries the well of That's Washington Jones. Can't you just see her right now saying that to him? I love this story. Okay, so we need to think about how we're going to restate, answer side and explain. So you just told me the site and the answer in the restates said, Oh, you have to do now is explained. So let's say Mrs Jones is considered ballsy because she takes control of the situation. For instance, in the text, Miss Jones makes a comment to Roger that you put yourself in contact with them in. Then she says, When I get early, you sir, you are going to remember. This is Lou l Abate Washington job. As a result, it shows that Miss Jones is ballsy. So if you have that, you are correct. So right here I have for you the pdf uh, the race. Okay, that shows your offer State and shows the acronyms and what they many and right here is just another anchor charge that just shows Stepping up the evidence When we read our text, we think about inferences. We make connections and we question and we write down highlight. We underline, and we that helps us explain and think about an answer. Our questions. So thank you so much for tuning in with me today. Own siding, sexual evidence. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email May. And I hope you guys have a good day

Citing Textual Learning - 8th Grade ELA

Learning at Home: 8th Grade Citing Textual Learning

Connotations - Learning the feelings behind words. 

Hi, My name is Miss Rogers, and today I'm gonna be teaching you a mini lesson on connotation. Now, in reading. It's very important that we understand what a text means and says, but it's also important to do a little research and dig a little bit to figure out why. And author writes a certain way, and this is called authors Craft. So others craft are techniques and elements that a Roger writer uses to have a very distinct voice. If you've ever rent shel silver scenes problems, you'll know that his voice has a singsong type poetry. You know the words that he uses. Also, for example, Dr Seuss has a specific voice. He often uses words that are nonsensical, and most of his words run with each other so you can automatically read a lot, um, from a poem without his name on it. And you can almost guess that it was written by Doctor Seuss. Many authors have a very distinct voice, and it's because of the words and elements that they use, and this is called word choice. Others choose their words just like painters. Choose paint colors and chefs choose ingredients for a recipe words have both the de notation and a connotation. A de notation is the dictionary, meaning that a word uses and that's easy. That's just the regular literal meaning. Connotation, however, isn't unclad, meaning. It's a feeling that kind of goes along with the word. It's either positive or negative and sometimes neutral. But you have to feel what the word feels, and I'll show you some practices to do with this, to figure that out. All right, so here we have a few lines. Words are always on some sort of feeling radiant. They can either be really positive, regularly positive, neutral or negative, and you'll see what I mean in a second. So our first example, we have the word smart. Yeah, sorry, it's a little positive. But what would we say? What kind of world would be used if it means smart? But it's really a positive word. You want to really make your characters sound like they're very, very smart. He might use the word clever. There are several the words you could use on this radiant you could put intelligent and they're bright. All of which would be more on the positive son now for a negative side. If you wanted to imply that your character is smart but smart and more of a negative way, you might use the word sly. Another example is the word. Pretty Now. Pretty does sound positive, but let's go a little bit more on the positive side. Well, what if someone was really pretty? A character is very pretty, we might say the word gorgeous. By using that word, you're implying that that character is even better than pretty. Do you see how the word kind of it brings an emotion with it? You almost have to think of yourself. Would you rather be described as this sword? This and you have to plug it in. So I think I would rather be described as clever than sly and gorgeous rather than just attractive. The last example was happy. How is a positive word? But how do we describe someone who's very happy? We might say that person is giddy, we could say elated. We could say a numerous words, but just know that they're only spectrum. There are many more positive words along the spectrum, and our negative work for happy could just be content. You're not jumping up and down. You're OK, All right, so let's practice a little bit with our positive and negatives. Let's see if we can pick the which sentences positive and negative connotation. Number one. Callous, very thrifty person. Cal is a very stingy person. Both thrifty and stingy means saving money. Which one is painted in a positive light? If you said the rift E, you're right, stingy just means he's saving his money, but it's more of a negative feeling in the word stingy. Number two. He wears classic styles, or he wears old fashioned styles. Well, if it were me, I'd rather be described as wearing classic styles as opposed to old fashion. So classic is much more positive. Number three. Every morning he trudges to work. Every morning he spreads to work well, which one sounds positive or negative? It sounds more happy in a sprint toe. Work trudging makes me feel like you're not learning to go, and so trudging would be more negative and sprints would be positive. And before Cal drives an antique car, cow drives an ancient car. Well, if you had a car, would you like it to be described? His antique or ancient, I believe, and he is more positive here. When I say the word agent with car, I normally think it's falling for number five. His wife insists that he fixed the car himself for his wife, encourages him to fix the car himself. Well, if someone was insisting that you do something or encouraging you to do something, which one would sound more positive? If you think encourages is more positive, you're correct. Insisting is more of like a demand, and I couldn't use the word demand there for negative number 61 day, cow son requested a room on his own. One take how son demanded a room of his own hears the word demanded and demanded would definitely be more negative. So hopefully after that, practice your understanding a little more on the next slot, we're gonna take it one step further. We're going to try to figure out if the sentence is positive or negative and connotation, and then we're gonna change the sentence to be the opposite connotation. You'll see what I mean. Our first sentence. Miss Rogers walked into class and smiled at her students. Well, is the word smiled positive or negative it's positive. So we're gonna change the sentence now and we're gonna think of the sentence that is more negative connotation. Now. It's gotta be, Scott means smiled, but it's gotta be more on the negative side. So what is a smile that's more negative? Him? I think it's smart. So Miss Rogers walked in the class and smirked at her students. That definitely sounds a little more negative. Let's try another one. Number two. The teacher access your youthful appearance. The class thought she was a new student. Well, youthful. That's pretty positive. Full of youth. Now think of something that means someone is young, but it's kind of negative. What about shouted sh. The teacher had such a childish appearance. The class thought she was a new student. It still means young, but it has a negative feeling attached to it. I wouldn't want to be called childish. Number three. Miss Rogers is so cheap that she makes some of her bookshelves out of crates. That's true. Is it positive or negative? Cheap. I don't think anybody likes to be called cheap, so that's probably a negative comment ation. So let's change the word to mean that she saves money, but she does it in a positive way. Miss Rogers is so thrifty. I like that a lot better that she makes some of her bookshelves out of crates. Definitely. I want more positive. All right, folks, we learned connotation. But if you need more practice and we always do need more practice, you can follow the link at the bottom of the screen. Bit dot li slash connotation. Hopefully, you'll find that the practice will help you a little bit more. And I hope you all enjoyed this lesson. Have a great day.

Connotation - 8th Grade ELA

Learning at Home : 8th Grade Connotation

Imagery in literature allows words to paint a vibrant picture. 

My name is Miss Roger Waters, and this is part of the reading with Roger Siri's Today I'm introducing imagery. An imagery is part of the author's craft. So just this before you've seen my other videos, we'll start with authors craft and what that means. It's just the way and author writes his or her story or text. Any piece of writing has a crafty author chooses words intentionally, and the choosing of words is called Word Choice. Authors, just like painters and chefs, choose their colors or choose their ingredients just like they choose their words. So today we're gonna talk about imagery and all their shoes specific types of imagery in order to get the reader to build a picture in their minds, you'll see what I mean in a second. I'm Generally, imagery is language that is descriptive, and it deals with the fast since is so you'll deal with how things taste, helping smell, how things feel, sound and look, and again we'll see some examples in just a moment. All right, so here's an original sentence. She drink water on a hot day. If you close your eyes, you really couldn't paint a picture there's not much description in that sentence, so we're gonna change it by adding a bit of imagery. And remember, imagery is when we appeal to the senses so we can talk about how that water looks, How it tastes help feels how it sounds, any of those things to describe this activity. So now I've added descriptive words. The cool, refreshing water clinched her thirst as the scorching sun radiated on her. So at that point, now even paint a picture in your mind of a girl who's definitely tired or hot, and she's drinking some cool, refreshing water. The descriptive words appealed to your senses, and you're able to paint a picture in your mind of what's going on. So let's practice together. We're gonna add energy to these sentences to make them more vivid. Number one. The house looked run down again. It's hard to picture that house in your head. You're not quite sure what about that house looks run down so generally when you add imagery and makes your sentences longer and you kind of tell what kind, how many? Which one? And you just describe everything in this sentence. So in order to change this one, we added descriptions. The crumbling shack looked as if the yellowed spiderweb windows were the only things holding up the rotting timbers of the roof. Yes, it's still since the same thing the house looked run down. But in this version, you can close your eyes and see the crumbling shack. You can see the yellow windows in your mind with spiderweb cracks in them, and you see the rotting timbers. Okay, never to the cookies were burned. Well, all of us can imagine what burn cookies look like in our head. But this sentence really doesn't help us paint a picture in our minds. There are no descriptive words that really help. So here we've changed an added description. The chocolate chip cookies were crisp and crumbling in the chunks of tar like booze. All right, that's a good one. That one talks about your site. You can see it, and you can almost feel it tar like use. I can kind of feel that being really sticky, angry. All right, Number three. The couch was comfortable. Well, in this one, you don't even know what kind of catch to imagine in your head. So let's add a little bit of description and build that image in our minds. The plush velveteen couch enveloped my body in the most pillow like cocoon. All right, in this one. I know it's soft, it's plush. It's like a velvet, and it's must be very, very soft. Okay, so imagery really helps us paint pictures in our minds. Have you ever read a book? And you were confused if you saw the movie or read the book? I do that all the time. When I read, I paint pictures in my mind as I go, and I can't remember if I saw the movie or read the book. That's when the authors really using great imagery heart. So let's try some examples. We're going to read this excerpt from all summer in a day. It's a short story about Ray Bradbury. If you've not read it, you should really read it. It's very interesting. It's actually said in Venus. Here I go. I want you to listen out for imagery, so listen out. When the author describes how something looks, tastes, sounds, feels any of that it rand. It had been writing for seven years, thousands upon thousands of days compounded and field from one into the other with rain with the drum and gush of water with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were title ways come over the islands. 1000 forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up 1000 times to be crushed again. And this was the way life waas forever on the planet Venus. And this was the school room of the Children of the rocket men and women who had come to a reigning world to set up civilization and live out their lives. All right, so the author here is painting the setting of Venus Norris. And obviously we have never been Venus. So we're trying to paint a image in our minds. So let's look at the piece and find those descriptive words that help us see. There are a lot of sound imagery here, like things that you could here. So let's see if we can find some. All right, I can hear the drum of rain. You can hear it fitting something. The gush of water. You can kind of see that the sweet crystal ball, having seen a crystal chandelier or crystals hanging. You can kind of see those glistening raindrops look like crystals. The concussion of storms. You can kind of hear that thunder heavy. That's a feeling heavy. And they were. Title waves come over the islands. There must be a lot of rain. Okay, 1000 sports have been crushed, so you know, this rain is coming down quite heavily. All right. So authors like to use imagery in order to paint pictures in our minds. Without imagery, reading would not be a fun. So I urge you to the practice and find some more imagery by using the link below Or just read a book. Any pages bound offer imagery for you to see and find you Have a good day. Thanks for watching.

Imagery - 8th Grade ELA

Learning at Home: 8th Grade Imagery

This fun and exciting lesson engages the young learner on the expressive nature of figurative language.

Rogers. And welcome to the reading with Roger Siri's Today I'm gonna be introducing figurative language and grassy heard of many types of negative language. But today we're gonna focus on just three. This is also part of the Siris on authors craft and just a reminder authors craft or the techniques and elements a writer uses to create their own voice and a piece of writing. You might have heard me talk about word, choice and imagery. Well, those are all authors craft. Today we're gonna talk about the figured of language that authors choose, and the times are similes, metaphors and personification. So figure of language, figure of language is anything your speech, which depends on a non literal meaning. What that really means is whenever the author uses figured of language, they're not really saying what they mean, and you'll see what I mean. In a second, it's a figurative meaning. Okay, so simile compares two things that are unlike and use the word like her as a metaphor compares two things that are not alike and really says one thing is another thing. There's no like or as in that one, many people get the metaphor and simile, confused and personification is where then writer gives human qualities toe a non human thing and you'll see that in just a moment. All right, so let's see some examples. Similes, You were as brave as a lion. Now have I know this is assembly. If you think about the definition assembly is when a rider compares one thing to another thing that are completely different, using the word like or as so do we have to things being compared here you is being compared to a lion. Now, are they connected with the words like or as they are the word ass? The next one is Marco runs like a cheetah. Marco is being compared to a cheetah, and the world like is connecting the two. So those are two similes now for metaphors, thes are a little trickier. It's where you're saying one thing is something completely different. Okay, but classroom was a zoo. All right, so classroom is being compared to a zoo. Now, does the author here mean that a classroom has turned into a place where animals and, uh, animals are locked up in cages? Has a costume really turned into a zoo no. Well, the author really means here is that the classroom has become chaotic, like a zoo. That's what I mean by non literal meaning. The author really isn't meaning what they're saying. You're having to think about it. So if you call the classroom of zoo, your mind automatically paints it as a chaotic place. Okay, The next metaphor is the ballerina was a swan gliding across the stage. Now we're comparing the ballerina to a swan. Now that's the battery and turn into a swan. No, she doesn't. The author is just trying to make you think that the ballerina is like a small and, you know in your head that the swan is graceful, okay? And the next one is personification. Personification is where we're giving non human characteristics to something that's not alive. So in this case, lightning danced across the sky will generally for personification. We want to look at the verbs Now what is the verb in the sentence? The verb is danced. Well, what's dancing? Lightning? Combining dance? No humans dance. So that's personification. The next one is read or heard The last key supply calling her name. Well, we had two verbs here Heard, will read Akin here when we have calling and who's calling the pie? Alright, pie cannot call. So that is come. That is definitely personification. All right, so let's practice together. Here are in a label each example with an Esper simile and infer metaphor or P for personification. So let's see how we do on this one. Remember toe. Look for two compared things, or look at those verbs to see if it's a personification. The moon was the ghostly galleon tossed to pull in the cloudy seas. Now are we comparing two things? I do believe we are the man and the Gallion, which is a ship now. Did the moon turn into a ship? No. So that means this must be simile or metaphor is comparing two things. But what does it not have? It does not have like her as so that one must be a metaphor. Number two when the stars threw down their spears. Okay, I don't see them comparing two things. What's the bird through whose throne stars in starts throw, you know, so that one must be for personification number through he would write, but his hours are as busy as bees in the sun. Hmm. I know. I see something. I like her. And as as busy as that must be a what? A simile. Number four. And then my heart with pleasure fills and dances with the daffodils. I'm not sure there's anything being compared here. Let's see. Fills and dances. What's dancing my heart? Can heart stance? No Humans dance. It's gotta be personification. And number five My brain is fire. My heart is lead. Okay, I definitely see some care. Harrison's here brain the fire heartened lead. Do they turn into those things? Know? Is there like your ass? No. So it must be a metaphor. Okay, Probably that helps your understanding. Now let's look at figured of language in an excerpt. Now, this is the next step from all Summer in a day by Ray Bradbury. It's a science fiction story, and it's really good If you haven't read it, it's set in Venus, which is pretty cool. So I'm gonna read and we're gonna look out four the simile and metaphor personification and we're gonna ask ourselves while the author use those. But they were running and turning their faces up to the sky and feeling the sun on their cheeks like a warm iron. They were taking off their jackets and letting the sun burn their arms. Oh, it's better than the sun lamps, isn't it? Much, much better. They stopped running and stood in the great jungle that covered Venus that grew and never stop growing tumultuously even as you watched it. It was a nest of Octa pot, clustering up great arms of flesh like we'd wavering flowering in this brief spring, it was the color of rubber and ash. This jungle from the many years without son it was the color of stones and white cheeses and ink, and it was the color of the moon. So if you have underlined a couple of pieces of figure of language in the first paragraph of underlying like a warm iron, Okay, so like a one iron is a what if you said similarly you're correct. Now the author uses that the sun warms their cheeks like a warm iron to get you to understand how hot it waas Now did it burn them like an iron? Not quite. They are getting some bird, but she wants you to know how hot and and shocking this sunshine is because I give you a hint in the story In Venus, it rains every day all day, so they don't see the sun generally. All right. And we have another underlying part. It was a nest of octopus. And this is where they're talking about the jungle. All the plants out there. Okay, so it was a nest of Octavia. Well, was the jungle really full of octopus? No. So this is a metaphor. But when they are out there saying is that the weeds were all around like arms. They were just growing everywhere. So this author really wanted to paint an image in your head of what this sunshine looked like all of a sudden. And they wanted these negative language to paint more images in your mind. That is, authors craft, and those are figured of language. So hopefully you understand a little bit about figured of language. But if you need more practice, you can go to the link below, and you can always just open a book and looked through it. You're gonna find favor of language all throughout most novels, happy reading. Have a good day. But by

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