GOOD MORNING! MON. OCT. 5

HW Due Today: Turn in “Daughter of

Invention” Vocabulary Worksheet from Friday.

Save your “Daughter of Invention” paragraph in my S Drive In Box.

DMAs Week 6 Begin a new sheet of paper. Question of the day: Think

of a gift you have given or received that was very special. What was the gift? Why was it special or memorable?

SHORT STORY UNIT ENDING SOON!

Next Friday we will have the final test over the short story unit.

All work we have done so far will be officially due.

I will not accept any late work after next Friday for this short story unit.

LEARNING TARGET/SUCCESS CRITERIA

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text.

I CAN understand challenging vocabulary words in “The Gift of the Magi”

I CAN write sentences that show that I understand these meanings.

GIFT OF THE MAGI VOCABULARY

I have sent you an email that has the assignment for the day.

Please open your Outlook Email. Find the email with the subject “Gift of the Magi”

GOOD MORNING/AFTERNOON!

Week 6 DMAs Tuesday, October 6th DMA #2 What does it mean to sacrifice something?

Can you think of story you know where a person sacrificed something for another? It may be true or fiction, from your life or from someone else’s life.

GOOD MORNING!

DMAs Week 6 DMA #3 of the week Wed. Oct. 7th Explain how the ending of “The Gift of the

Magi” is ironic. Irony is a contrast between what is expected

and what actually happens.

DMA WEEK 6

DMA Question Oct. 8th Choose one: Rewrite the ending of “Gift of

the Magi.” OR Write what happens next

after the ending of “Gift of the Magi”

Please take out the “Theme Clues” sheet we were working on yesterday!

LEARNING TARGET

Determine a central theme of a text, and analyze in detail it’s development over the course of the text.

LEARNING TARGET

I CAN understand what a literary theme is.

I CAN think about and identify how the theme develops in “Gift of the Magi”

WHAT IT IS, WHAT IT’S NOT

Literary Theme An observation, a

comment, an insight to life or human nature.

Must be expressed in a complete sentence.

NOT theme NOT one word or

phrase NOT a moral NOT telling you HOW

to live or WHAT to do

EXAMPLES

Theme Both good and evil live

within us. Jealousy can destroy a

person People have control over

their own fates. Too much ambition can be

dangerous

NOT theme Love Family Always do the right

thing. Be careful what you wish

for.

WAYS TO IDENTIFY THEME HANDOUTLet’s look over this…

“GIFT OF THE MAGI”PAGE 96Please turn in your books!