"I can see an old guy staring at me. Elroy Berdahl: eighty-one years old, skinny and shrunken and mostly bald. He wore a flannel shirt and brown work pants. His eyes had the bluish gray color of a razor blade, the same polished shine, and as he peered up at me I felt a strange sharpness, almost painful, a cutting sensation, as if his gaze were somehow slicing me open."
Today after school in room 237.. retest for anyone who wishes to change his or her abysmal grade from last Friday's test on the figurative language terms and vocabulary from "Rainy River."
ALSO: ELA review....we are working on the graphic organizer as a group. Bring your story.
In class: continuing with the graphic organizer. The goal is to use complete sentences into which you have woven textual evidence- which, of course you have set off with quotation marks- into your sentences. Remember that the material must be able to stand independently. AVOID IT whenever possible; find another noun.
Strategy: 1. read the questions 2. read the assigned text. 3. reread and find the evidence that supports your response. 4. check for capitalization, spelling, grammar and punctuation. Remember that this is equivalent to two writing grades. Due Thursday at the end of class.
This is due by the end of class on Thursday.
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