MRS.

IRICKS 3RD BLOCK ELA NEWSLETTER

September 5th- September 9th, 2016

Mrs

Class Calendar
September

PICTURES FROM ABOVE SHOW THE SHORT STORIES WE WILL READ SECTIONS
OF IN CLASS.

Reading Concepts and Skills:

Students will be continue
focusing on making inferences
based on their schema and text
evidence. We will continue to
focus on determining the mood
and tone of a piece. Students will
learn what mood and tone are,
how to find it in given passages
and support reasons why based
on schema and text evidence.
Writing:
Students will focus on learning
how to properly construct an
eight sentence paragraph. They
will work on creating a topic
sentence, six supporting
sentences and a closing
sentence to complete it. They
will also work on hooking
sentences. They will view pieces
of novels that have great lines to
get the readers hooked!

Vocabulary/Stems
They will review the STEMs and
vocabulary words for this week. The
following week, they will receive a
new list. Students will need to know
the definitions for both, determine if
the word is used correctly in the
sentence and identify synonyms and
antonyms.

Language:

Independent Reading:
Students need to continue to put entries in
their reading logs. They should always have a
book in class. They are welcome to bring
books from home as well. During this time,
students will focus on authors word choice in
their stories. Remember at the end of the

9 weeks, extra credit will be rewarded

for those completing their logs!
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Torpid
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Unduly
Adverb

Students will continue to focus on

authors word choice. This will focus
on nouns and adjectives. We will
review the types of nouns; concrete,
abstract, common, proper, singular,
plural, and possessive.

Rectory
Adj.

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4
5
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7
8
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20 poor
21 health
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Wave

Infirmitie
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Physical or
mental
weakness

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A fulllength
Waterproof
jacket

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Good,
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Using Styles
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Contact Info is the name of the

gray text style inside the small
contact tables.

and then click Modify. All content

where the style is applied will
update automatically.

Name Style

The body text throughout the

articles in this template uses the
Normal paragraph style. Following
are some other styles applied
throughout the template:

Large article titles, such as on

the first page, use Heading 1
style.
Orange headings in the sidebars
and within articles use Sidebar
Heading style.
Orange section titles in articles
use the Heading 2 style.
Small article titles use Heading
3 style.
This style is List Bullet 2.
This style is List Continue.

Text in sidebars uses the

Sidebar Text style.
White headings on orange text
in tables uses the Heading 4
style.
The heading inside contact
information tables uses
Heading 5 style.

Access all styles used in this

template on the Home tab, in the
Styles group.
Using styles helps save you time and
keep your document consistent. To
modify a style, on the Home tab, in
the Styles group, right-click the
name of the style you want to edit

Another way to modify a style is to

simply customize an instance of the
style where its applied in the
document. Then, on the Home tab,
in the Styles group, right-click the
style name and then click Update
[style] to Match Selection.

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HEADING 4 STYLE
Use the small tables provided in some of the articles to call out quick reference information related to the article, such as contact
information or event dates.
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Contact Info
This picture caption uses the
Caption 2 paragraph style and
is inside a text box so that you
can move it easily as needed
to accompany a photo.

To setup a document for multiple

column text, on the Page Layout
tab, in the Page Setup group, click
Columns and then click the number
of columns you need. You can also
click More Columns to specify
column widths, the space between
columns, or to automatically add a
vertical line between columns.
To change the number of columns
for just part of the document (or if
you want text to wrap to just the top
part of the page and a new article to
start below as shown on this page),
insert a section break before the
position where you want to start the
new column layout. To do this, on
the Page Layout tab, in the Page
Setup group, click Breaks and then
click the type of section break you
need.

Select a section break

When changing many types of page

layout formatting for just part of the
documentsuch as paper size,
margins, or orientation, the best
section break type to use is a Next
Page section break because it
automatically starts the new section

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on a new page. However, when

changing the number of columns as
you might in this newsletter, you
may prefer to select a Continuous
break. The continuous section break
(used a few times throughout this
template) starts a new section
immediately after the preceding
one. So, for example, you can have a
three-column article followed by a
four-column article, on the same
page.

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This placeholder article provides the
following tips:

Creating thermometer charts

using tables, as shown at left.
Setting up multipage articles.

Wrapping text around images

Adding article titles and bylines

Creating the sidebar

thermometer charts
Sidebar Setup
The sidebars in this template use simple,
single-row tables for the gray-shaded
headings and thermometer charts shown
below for easy alignment.

When you work in Word 2010 (or

PowerPoint 2010), you have the full
power of Excel 2010 charts
(provided that Excel is installed on

Formatting Tips
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your computer). Insert a chart in

Word from the Insert tab, in the
Illustrations group. Charts are easy
to create and use and automatically
coordinate with your active
document theme.

Add Sidebar Content

Adding content into a column to create a
sidebar is no different from adding text. As
noted earlier in this template, apply the styles
provided for headings, sidebar text, and even
pictures to align them quickly and easily.

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adding your own text on this page.
As mentioned on the first page of
this template, remember that it
might look like the layout is skewed
when you replace a long piece of
placeholder text by starting to type
your own, but it is not. As you add
your content, the layout that follows
will move down automatically and

However, notice in the sidebar at left

that the thermometer charts were
created using single-row Word
tables. This is because they
automatically fit the tight space
without having to remove any chart
elements. And you might be
surprised to learn that its easy to
make them essentially
mathematically accurate.
To use a table as a thermometer
chart, do the following:
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On the Insert tab, in the Tables

group, click Table and then drag
across the grid to select the first
two cells in the first row. Click to
insert a two-cell, one-row table.
Click in the table and then, on
the Table Tools Layout tab, in
the Table group, click
Properties.
On the Columns tab of the
Table Properties dialog box,
change the Measure In setting
to Percentage. You can then
set the percentage to up to one
decimal point in accuracy.

Setting up multipage articles

Word is designed to allow text to

automatically flow from one page to
the next. So, when you want an
article to continue on the next page,
just keep typing.

back into position.

To remove the second placeholder
control that starts immediately
following this one, just select it and
then press any key. You can then
continue typing from this page and
your text will automatically flow onto
the next.

Wrap text around images

The photos in this article that are

angled with white borders are
floating images. That is, they are
setup for text to wrap around them
which is why they can span multiple
columns in a three-column section.
Additionally, as mentioned earlier,
the photo of the young woman in the
body of this article is set to
wrap text so that text will
flow around the image as
you add your own text.
To select text
wrap settings,
start by selecting
the image and then
do the following:
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On the
Picture
Tools
Format tab,
in the Arrange
group, click Wrap
Text and then select either
Square, Tight, or Top and
Bottomdepending on how you
want the text to wrap.
You might be happy with the
default behavior as soon as you
do this. Otherwise, continue to

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step two for customization
options.
2

To set a specific position or

control behavior (such as
whether or not the image moves
with text), on the Picture Tools
Format tab, in the Arrange
group, click Position and then
click More Layout Options.
On the Text Wrapping tab of
the Layout dialog box, you can
set a specific distance from the
image for text to wrap and
control whether text can wrap on
both sides, one side only, or just
above and below the image.
On the Position tab of that
dialog box, you can set a specific

Notice the image of the young

woman thats within a text column
on the preceding page. The
background has been removed from
that image to allow text to wrap

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position for the image on the
page and select or clear the
option to allow the picture to
move with text.

Adding article titles, bylines,

and dividers

The article titles and bylines for this

newsletter are created in text boxes.
This is because text can wrap
around a text box just like it can
around a picture. Similarly, the
orange divider bars that you see on
pages containing more than one
article are shapes set to wrap text.
So, these text boxes and shapes can
easily span multiple columns without
having to insert a section break or
change the number of columns for
just that portion of the page.
The Remove Background feature
automatically displays what it
believes to be the central subject of
the image. However, its easy to
adjust this if the immediate result is

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directly around the subject.

not what you need.

Office 2010 introduced several new

and improved picture formatting
tools in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
Among those is the Remove
Background tool that you can use to
remove backgrounds from your own
images, similar to the sample image
on the preceding page.

On the Background Removal tab,

click Mark Areas to Keep or Mark
Areas to Remove and then drag
your mouse pointer in a line across
the portion of the image you want to
add or remove. When you are
finished making adjustments, click
Keep Changes.

To do this in Word, first insert your

image into the document (on the
Insert tab, click Picture), and then
select it. Then, on the Picture Tools
Format tab, in the Adjust group,
click Remove Background.

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When you select a text box or a

shape, on the Drawing Tools
Format tab, in the Arrange group,
you have the same settings for text
wrapping and positioning that are
described above for wrapping text
around pictures.
Note that, because text is set to
wrap around the orange divider
bars, your article might appear to
slip below or above a bar, depending
upon length. To adjust the position of
a divider bar shape to accommodate
the length of your articles, just
select the shape and then use the
up and down arrow keys on your
keyboard to nudge it to the proper
position.

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