• Good Things• SURPRISE MOVIE DAY!

AGENDA OCTOBER 23

• Write a letter to Ms. Pease introducing yourself to her.• Include:

Your name

What your favorite subject in school is & why.

What your least favorite subject is & why.

What Ms. Pease needs to know about your personality to help you best learn.

What your overall goal for Language Arts is for the year.

LETTER TO MS. PEASE

• I have no feet to dance, I have no eyes to see, I have no life to live or die but yet I do all three. What am I?

• Where do mummies go to swim?

• What is a ghost’s favorite ride at a theme park?

• Written by Lucille Fletcher• The story follows Mrs. Stevenson, who is frantically

trying to reach her husband on the phone, but overhears a plot to commit a vicious murder.

• LISTEN FOR:Suspense

Climax

Mood

Tone

Foreshadowing

SORRY, WRONG NUMBER

• What do you imagine Mrs. Stevenson to look like?• What is meant by “invalid”?• What was the mood of the drama? • How did we figure out the mood? • Why would no one help Mrs. Stevenson?• What do you think really happened to her? How do you

know?• How does listening to this story increase the suspense? • How do we establish the same mood by reading out loud?

URBAN LEGENDS

• A secondhand story told as true and believable.

• Usually about about some horrific, embarrassing, or ironic series of events that supposedly happened to a real person.

• An urban legend is likely to be framed as a cautionary tale.

DEFINITION OF URBAN LEGENDS

• Skillful narrative storytelling.• Semi-reliable sources like “a

friend.”• A type of folklore involving

unexplained phenomenon and fear of ghosts or violence.

• Passed along by word-of-mouth.• Meant to be scary.• They are not always false, but

are hard to prove as true.• Sometimes they are simply

“ghost” stories.• They involve real people.

ELEMENTS OF URBAN LEGENDS

“The bus boycott of 1955-1956 was a pivotal event in the American Civil Rights

movement.”

Adjective

Of central importance or idea.

PIVOTAL

• During a terrible snowstorm, a grumpy bus-driver Grady, refuses to pick up an African American woman and her baby.

• The woman and the baby freeze in the snowstorm.

• The bus driver becomes haunted by his selfish decision.

Synopsis Pg 944

THE WOMAN IN THE SNOW

“The wind ripped mercilessly at the woman’s

petite frame.”

Adjective

Small and slender

PETITE

“Grady felt the baby’s hot forehead and recoiled

instinctively.”

Verb

To draw back or pull back in fear or disgust.

RECOIL

“The temperature plummeted to below zero, and was even more cold with the wind blowing.”

Verb

To drop suddenly and steeply

PLUMMET

“Ray had watched the Montgomery bus boycott with interest, especially

because it was led by Martin Luther King, Jr.”

Noun

To protest, give up, or refuse to use something in

order to make a point.

BOYCOTT

• All cultures have stories and urban legends that keep people in suspense and wonder of the story’s truth.

• Go to SNOPES.com and Research an urban legend, superstition, or ghost story from any culture.

• Include:the history of the legend (when it began, where it

began), a summary of the story (in your own words), an analysis of the elements of literature in the story

(setting, mood, tone, irony, suspense, plot complications, characterization),

and an original illustration (drawing) of the climax or most suspenseful part.

URBAN LEGENDS EC PROJECT: DUE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24

50 POINTS