Tuesday, August 20th, 2013

• After you fill out your agenda book, please clear your desk of everything but a REGULAR PENCIL. No mechanical pencils, please.

• Agenda: – PRE-TEST– HW: Read over Job Application and fill out

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• Composition• Guidelines and procedures

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Pre-Test

• Effort grade, not correctness• Take your time!• If you finish in 30 minutes or less, I will

consider that NO EFFORT.• Read questions FIRST so you know which

story to read first.

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Tips

• Do NOT mark on your test.• Read questions FIRST so you know

which story to read.• Try NOT to erase.• Check over your answers.• When finished, turn test over and read.• Circle top three jobs on the Job

Application and begin filling out the front.

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#9 and #15• # 9 Answer on the BACK of your scantron.

MAKE SURE YOU LABEL IT.• #15 Answer on the BACK of your scantron.

MAKE SURE YOU LABEL IT.• Circle only the number #9 and #15 so that

you do NOT bubble in #9 and #15.

9 and 15

9 and 159 and 15

9 and 15

Wednesday, August 21st, 2013

• Please take out your Procedures and Guidelines handouts, your Job Application, and a pencil.

• Agenda:– How to Survive Ms. Duvall’s Class

(procedures)– Discuss Classroom Jobs

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Procedures

• Photographers and actors

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Class Jobs• Notebook Distributor • Notebook Collector• Host/Hostess• Records Keeper• Distributor • Collector• Conductor• Caboose• Energy Saver• Office Runner:• Technology Leader

• Computer Tech• Table Inspector• Library Leader• Photographer• Substitute Assistant• Attendance Keeper• Watch Dog• Grounds Keeper• Secretary• Equipment Manager • Safety Patrol

Thursday, August 22nd, 2013

• Prompt: Writing a narrative

– Listen to the song that is playing.

– Imagine the music as background to a narrative that has a setting, characters, and plot.

– In your writer’s notebook, describe the story you envision as the song plays in the background. Be very descriptive in your writing using vivid verbs, details, and images.

• AGENDA:– Begin Literary

PowerPoint

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Literary ElementsLiterary

ElementsPlot Point of View Mood

Setting Foreshadowing Characters

Flashback Conflict Theme

Irony Motivation Suspense

Symbol

PlotPlot(Once upon a time…)

Exposition: sets up the story by telling background, setting, & characters

Rising Action: main part of the story where problems arise

Climax: point of greatest intensity; the turning point

Plot: The sequence of events that take place in a story.

Falling Action: contains dialogue & action that lead to a satisfying ending

Resolution: satisfying ending telling how problems are resolved

…and they lived happily ever after.

PlotPlot

Friday, August 23rd, 2013

• Bell ringer: Please, get out your LITERARY ELEMENT NOTES and open your composition notebook to your NARRATIVE from yesterday.

• AGENDA:– Literary Elements PowerPoint– Remember to bring money on Monday if you

would like to purchase items at the Book Fair.

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Plot Line

Exposition

Rising

Act

ion

Climax

Falling Action

Resolution

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Think-Pair-Share

• Think about the narrative you envisioned during the opening song.

• In your writer’s notebook, label what you have written according to a plot diagram: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.

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SettingSetting

Time & Place

(It was a dark and scary night….)

CharacterizationCharacterizationAuthors present believable

characters by:

•character’s actions & words

•character’s appearance

•character’s inner thoughts

•character’s background

•what other characters think & say about the character

•narrator commenting directly about a character

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Teach - Okay

• 1’s -- teach 2’s about characterization!

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CharacterMotivationCharacterMotivation

The reason a character behaves

in a certain way

é The struggle that takes place between two opposing forces.

Conflict!Conflict!

EXTERNAL:

(outside the character)

person versus person

person versus nature

person versus society

INTERNAL:

(within the character’s mind)

person versus self

Point of ViewPoint of ViewWhois telling the story?1st person: a character speaks directly to the reader & refers to him/herself as “I” --this allows readers to experience the thoughts and emotions of the main character3rd person: a narrator who is not a character & refers to all characters as “he” or “she”--this allows readers to experience the thoughts and emotions of several characters

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Teach - Okay

• 2’s -- Teach 1’s about point-of-view

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SuspenseSuspenseWhatwill happennext?

The author’s ability to make the reader uncertain or tense about what is to

happen next.

I can’t stand the suspense!

MoodMoodWhat emotion is this writing trying

to make me feel?

The atmosphere or feeling that runs

through a work of literature. Writers

create mood usually through their choice

of details & description

ForeshadowingForeshadowingThe use of clues or hints by the author to prepare the reader forfuture developments in a story

Foreshadowing helps us make predictions…and then we want to read on to see if our

predictions come true!

FlashbackFlashback

An interruption of the action in a story to

tell about something

that happened earlier in

time.

FLASH BACK

Story’s Plot Story’s Plot

Central Idea & ThemeCentral Idea & Theme

Central Idea is the universal life subject found in a work of literature (friendship, fear, love, determination, etc.)

Theme is the life lesson learned from the Central Idea, stated in sentence form.

What can I learn about

how to live my life?

What is the author trying to tell

us? What is his message?

IronyIronyA contrast between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen.

Protagonist:The central or main character in a story.

Antagonist:Works versus the protagonist.

SymbolSymbol

Any person, place, or thing which has meaning in itself but which is made to

represent, or stand for, something else as well.

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Exit Slip

• If your computer number is 1-8, describe one way in which the setting of a story might affect the characters.

• If your computer number is 9-16, describe one way in which the characters of a story might affect the plot events.

• If your computer number is 17-25, describe one way in which the setting of a story might affect the conflict of a story.

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