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December 5, 2011 Agenda: +Vocabulary Pre-Test Unit 7+5th and 6th Grade Language Arts Blog+Night of the Twisters Compare and Contrast Paper

->Finish Similarities and Differences Outline->Begin Rough Draft Writing

Spelling/Vocabulary: Unit 7 =Vocabulary Option 3 due Friday, December 9th

Homework: Rough Draft due Friday, December 9th

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Characters in this segment: 

Setting (Where are the characters now?):

What happened? (3­5 sentence summary): ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Night of the Twisters-Novel Night of the Twisters-MovieBOTH

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Night of the Twisters-Novel Night of the Twisters-MovieBOTH

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Writing an Introduction:

Hook: (An intriguing, exciting statement about the novel that HOOKS the reader):____________________________________________________________________

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Opening Statement: (This is an overall statement of the topic of the paper. In this case, the event of the twisters hitting a small town in Nebraska.):_____________________________________________________________________

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Statement about the novel (i.e. the author, title, main event, etc.):_________________________________________________________________________________________

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Statement about the movie (i.e. the director, the main actors, title, main event, etc.):________________________________________________________________________________________

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Thesis Statement (What you are trying to prove in your paper. In this case, that the novel and the movie have similarities and differences):________________________________________________________________________________________

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Topic Sentence: _______________________________________________________________________

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Paragraph 2: SIMILARITIES

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Paragraph 3: DIFFERENCES

Topic Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________

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Writing a Conclusion:

Re­state your thesis: ________________________________________________________________________

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