Friday, Sept. 23 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Get a lit book and your “Cask of Amontillado” sheet

}Finish “Cask of Amontillado” Questions (previous slide)

   Peer Check of Answers

   If you chose to fix any answers, make sure you turn them in on Monday!

}Definition of Theme (universal and how developed too), and definition of Symbol (pg 402) –notes in Short Story terms area of Reader’s Notebook

}Theme: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/528258231270331821/

◦Post your group’s info to the blog (previous post)

}“The Sniper”

◦What is the theme of this story? While reading, close read the story for details that show theme.  Write a TIQA paragraph where you explain what the theme is and the textual evidence that builds that theme. –due Monday

}SSR Letter due

Pixar Themes

Post your group's movie, theme, and three details that demonstrate and develop the theme.

Thursday, Sept. 22 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Turn in Human Experience Paragraph to folder in green crate

}Discussion of terms from Tues (PoV, Setting, Mood)

}Revenge Discussion

}“Cask of Amontillado” pg 344

◦While reading, take notes in reader’s notebook of details that identify and describe setting and mood (sensory details, repetition, descriptions)

◦}**Question based on active reading: “What is the mood and what 2-3 details of setting most help establish that mood?”

     **Question 8: Consider whether Montresor is a reliable or unreliable narrator. Is the reader to believe, as Montresor does, that his revenge is justified? Is Montresor more sane or crazy? Give details from the story to support your opinion.

Answers to questions due tomorrow!

SSR LETTER DUE TOMORROW AS WELL

Wednesday, Sept. 21 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Character Description Illustration

}Illustration Discussion and Self-Evaluation

◦Rate your ‘showing’ on a scale of 1-10 (10 being best).  Did you give enough detail in your writing to assist your reader in seeing exactly what you wanted them to see?  Explain after your numerical rating what you did well with and what could be improved

◦3 hole punch the illustration and put both that and your description in the WN section

}Human Experience TIQA 

}In writer’s notebook: How have the two stories we’ve read so far shown the human experience? USE TEXTUAL EVIDENCE TO ANSWER QUESTION (TIQA paragraph[s])

◦“Sound of Thunder” p 34 and “Pancakes” p 194

}Human Experience: What it is like to be a specific person at a specific time in a specific place.

◦The details and specifics that go into the overall experience of being a human

◦Emotions, events, beliefs, behaviors, thoughts, etc.

}Step One: Brainstorm and choose point/idea/topic

}Step Two: One paragraph or Two

}Step Three: Find Textual Evidence

}Step Four: Write the TIQA paragraphs

   due tomorrow 

}SSR Letter Due Friday

Tuesday, Sept. 20 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: ACT Prep Section (slide 1)

}Collect “Pancakes” work (including dynamic character TIQA para) in folder in front of green crate

}Precise adjectives- word choice

◦Show Don’t Tell –notes in the craft lesson section

◦Share Show don’t Tell writing with partner

}Show Don’t Tell Character Traits in Writer’s Notebook

◦Start a story where you show a character (like the beginning of “Pancakes”) through the traits we talked about in the glossary section as well as the idea of Show Don’t Tell.

◦Put the character into a situation (action) and SHOW them

◦Minimum 2 longer paragraphs by Wednesday! (could need more to fully show character, but NOT A FULL STORY NEEDED)

}In Glossary section: point of view (pg 186), Setting, and Mood (pg 302 and 304 in Lit Book)

◦Details on Next Slide

}In Writer’s Notebook: Is revenge ever justified? Is revenge necessary at times to right a wrong? Can acts of revenge resolve conflicts? If you think no, write why people still commit acts of revenge.  If you think yes, explain how or why. –homework if not done 

Remember, there is an SSR letter due on Friday, so make sure you are reading!

Friday, Sept. 16 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Take out T-chart you filled out while reading

}Finish “Pancakes”

◦While reading, notes in Reader’s Notebook (traits and inferences)

◦Question 3  and “what is the climax?”

◦If you finish before we move on, read your choice book

}TIQA Notes

}Dynamic Character: go to the end of “Pancakes,” question 5

}Don’t make a new chart, refer to the chart made while reading.  Instead write a TIQA paragraph to show that Jill either is or is not a dynamic char. Make sure you have a piece of textual evidence to support your claim (the Q portion of TIQA)

Thursday, Sept. 15 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Take out your AoW close read

}AoW Discussion and Reflection How-To

◦https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/08/30/insulting-colin-kaepernick-says-more-about-our-patriotism-than-his/?utm_term=.7d1091db9a45

REFLECTION DUE TOMORROW!!!!!!

}“Pancakes” in Lit book: story #2 focus: Character Development

◦T-chart on character traits and what we infer from them

◦While reading, notes in Reader’s Notebook (traits and inferences)

Article for AoW Discussion

◦https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/08/30/insulting-colin-kaepernick-says-more-about-our-patriotism-than-his/?utm_term=.7d1091db9a45 

Tuesday, Sept. 13 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Roots 

}New Endings: grab two different color writing utensils

◦Take out notes on independent clauses and exchange your new ending with the person next to you.

◦Read partner’s story.  While reading, identify at least five independent clauses and circle the subject/noun of each clause in one color and the predicate/verb of the clause in the other

}Finish sharing poems

}In Reader’s Notebook/Class Notes section:

◦Character Traits and Character Motivation: Definitions and details from pgs 188 and 190

◦Definition of Dynamic Character from maroon glossary

}In writer’s notebook: Perfectionism: What are the pros and cons of having everything perfect in order to be happy (perfectionism)? Is striving for perfection ever helpful or necessary? When would it be difficult to be a perfectionist?

Monday, Sept. 12 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Independent Clauses(in editing section)

}How to: AoW: What it is and how to do a close read (definition in RN)

◦Close Read due Wednesday

}Discuss with your neighbor your ideas about “Sound of Thunder” esp. the end: What could the end mean? (safety off, sound of thunder) How else could it have ended?

}Another author’s version - Did this version make the changes you would have?

◦What source details?

◦How interpreted/transformed?

}Discuss the new version

}Write new version of ending (one page minimum, first sentence or two textual evidence, your complete/full version of a new ending due tomorrow)

}Due tomorrow: One Page New Ending SoT; Due Wednesday: Close Read of AoW (comments most important part)

Link for Sound of Thunder