Reading

Target: I can identify new literary terms.

Agenda: Share summaries and record a sentence for

each Review new literary terms Read chapter 17 together Introduce the project for next week. You will

have today and two class periods next week. Email me the work when completed.

January 30

Target: I can identify different point of views

Agenda: Review literary terms and log on Quizlet Make sure papers are completed and sent to

me. Read stories out loud Assign final project for book.

2/11/15

Target: I can work cooperatively as a group.

Agenda: Bell Ringer Projects– You have two class periods to work.

REMEMBER THAT IT IS A TEST GRADE!

2/24/15

Complete the reading and written work for me to

check.

2/26/15 Next class: Practice speaking with your group so that the presentation flows. Your group should be able to talk about the chapter freely and show me that you know what happened and thought about the main events. The discussion director is the leader and needs to keep people talking and help people if they are struggling.

Today

Next week we will start a short story unit!

YAY!

Target: I can present in formation to the class. I can identify new literary terms.

Agenda: Project presentations Begin Short Story Unit

2/26/15

How are movies and television shows

different?

List the differences in a venn diagram.

Short Story

a short story is a brief, fictional story that can

usually be read in one or two sittings. It typically follows only one or two characters

and focuses on one plot problem that is resolved by the end of the story.

The setting of a short story is very focused. It will only take place in one or two locations.

The purpose of a short story is to give the reader a glimpse of a few characters’ lives as they confront a problem.

Short Story

A novel, on the other hand, is a long work of fiction in which a

character typically changes or grows in several ways. There are often more than one plot problem in a novel, and sometimes even plot twists and surprises. There is also often more than one important character.

In a novel, we learn a lot about many places in a story, characters’ backgrounds, and what happened before the story begins. The difference between a short story and a novel, then, is that a short story shows a slice of life, whereas a novel or book will give a longer, deeper look. Short stories differ from longer fiction in the amount of detail they offer to readers. A good reader will want to examine how a short story includes the most essential details (the story elements), but leaves many of the other details to our imagination.

Novel

A character is developed through their actions, dialogue, and feelings.

Character

The time and place the story is set.

Setting

The sequence of events. 1. exposition 2. rising actions 3. climax 4. falling action 5. resolution

Plot

The struggle between two opposing forces.

The problem in the story.

Man vs. Man Man vs. Self Man vs. nature

Problem/Conflict

What is conflict and what are some of the

different types of conflict?

2/26/15 Exit Slip

Model short story analysis

If time…

What are the parts of characterization?

03/02/15 Bell Ringer

Agenda: Model short story analysis Practice Short story analysis Practice terms on quizlet Exit Slip

Target: I can identify characterization.

Write a short sentence or two in 1st person

point of view and then re write that same sentence under it in 3rd person point of view.

3/02/15 Exit Slip

Target: I can identify different aspects of point of

view in a text.

Agenda: Starter: Share a memory Student volunteer to share the memory Review point of view and introduce 3rd person

using clips to story comparison Teacher Model: identifying point of view Individual practice: identifying point of view

03/04/15