Vocabulary Workstation In this station you will choose three words that you don’t know (BE HONEST!) and reread the entire page they are on. Once you have read the page you need to provide the information asked for below. Draw separate graphic organizers for each word. I have provided you with an example. Dictionary definition. Include the part of speech. Use the word in a sentence. Seven or more words. You must show that you really understand the meaning of the word. Synonyms or examples Antonyms or non-examples Draw a detailed picture. Word and page number
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Vocabulary Workstation In this station you will choose three words that you don’t know (BE HONEST!) and reread the entire page they are on.
Once you have read the page you need to provide the information asked for below. Draw separate graphic organizers
for each word. I have provided you with an example.
Dictionary definition. Include the part of speech.
Use the word in a sentence. Seven or more words. You must show that you really understand the meaning of the word.
Synonyms or examples
Antonyms or non-examples
Draw a detailed picture.
Word and
page number
adjective
1. of the nature of a miracle 2. suggesting a miracle 3. working or able to work miracles
Dr. Brown made a miraculous recovery after the car accident.
Synonyms: extraordinary supernatural unbelievable
Antonyms: boring believable credible
Miraculous
pg.7
Figurative Language/Literary Elements Workstation
When you read, you will need to find at least SIX examples of figurative language or literary elements in your reading. When you find them: 1. write the page number, and you will need to identify them 2. write the term and 3. explain why they were used by the author.
Each annotation will be on its own post-it note. Place the sticky notes in your workstation booklet. Write the chapter number
in the heading.
Hyperbole Metaphor Simile Personification
Oxymoron Alliteration Tone Onomatopoeia
Imagery Foreshadow Theme Idiom
Sensory language Mood
Summary Workstation
1. Reread the week’s reading. While you are reading, think
about what is being read.
2. Discuss with your group what information from the
reading you believe to be important. Include specific
examples.
3. Use the information from what you read and what you
discussed with your group and create a complete summary
including specific examples. Show details. Think about all
the major events of the assigned reading.
VisualizationWorkstation Directions: Visualizing helps you make a movie
in your mind of the words/scenes you are
reading on a page in your book. After reading,
draw in detail a major scene that you
visualized. Below your picture include a short
summary or description of your visualization. It
must be colored! I can make a movie in my mind to support what is happening in my story.
Group Discussion Workstation DIRECTIONS: Discuss the following questions with your team. AFTER you discussed them,
write what you discussed in your booklet. You must show evidence to prove your answers.
1. What did the author want you to think about the main character? What scenes
or events in the story made you think this is what the author wanted
you to think? Prove why you think as you do about the main character using examples from the book.
2. What motivation(s) does the character have to do the things he/she does, the
decisions he/she make, and the things he/she says? How would the story be different if that
motivation was different?
3. What was the cause and effect of any one of the happenings/events in
the story? In other words, what made events happen? Was it something someone
did, or said, or something that just happened? Basically, the cause and effect of
something happening.
Poetry Workstation
Write a poem about the
story/section of one of the
characters or events. The poem
must be at least 12 lines long and
must use at least 4 different
elements of figurative language.
TO UNDERSTAND SYNTAX IN WRITING WORKSTATION
Sent. # First Four Words of the Sentence Special Features Verbs in Sentence # of Words
What observations can you make about the style of this passage? What are your thoughts about the writing style?
Add a sentence to the end of the paragraph. See if you are keeping the TONE of the paragraph.
Just write the
first four
words of each
sentences
from the
paragraph.
Analyze the
sentences.
Look at
sentences
structure,
figurative
language,
details,
techniques,
parts of
speech…
Write down all
the verbs in
the sentence.
Focus on the
main verb of
the sentence.
Count the
number of
words in
each
sentence,
Example:
I hate this part of my morning, but I have to do it, so I take a deep breath in through my nose. I hold that air for ten seconds before
releasing it out through my mouth. I fill my lungs with big air again, hold it, and release it slowly. After ten inhales and exhales, I reach to hit the light switch and notice my fake black spider chillin’ behind the soap dish. I snatch it up and shove it in my pocket. Maybe I’ll find a sucker at Striker’s.
How Lamar's Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy by Crystal Allen
Sent. # First Four Words of the sentence Special Features Verbs in Sentence # of Words
1. I hate this part *compound sentence hate, have, take 23
*prepositional phrases
* three simple sentences
2. I hold that air *complex sentence hold, releasing 14
*uses dependent clauses
3. After ten inhales and *imagery reach, notice, chillin’ 23
* placed prepositional
phrase at the beginning
*details
*visualize the spider
4. I snatch it up *simple sentence snatch, shove 10
5. Maybe I’ll find a *simple sentence will find 7
*use of contractions
Name: Period: Date:
TO UNDERSTAND SYNTAX IN WRITING: Choose a paragraph from a story and anayze the sentences.
Sent. # First Four Words of the Sentence Special Features Verbs in Sentence # of Words
