You need to have : “Thank You, M’am” reading out on desk Pen or pencil

You need to have :

• “Thank You, M’am” reading out on desk

• Pen or pencil

Daily OpenerDecember 5, 2011


•Take out sheet of paper/ pencil

•Write name, date and class period

•Number paper 1-7

•Title: Universal Emotions

•List seven emotions that everyone

experience


•Take out sheet of paper/ pencil

•Write name, date and class period top right-hand corner

•Title: Mid-Term “About the Rabbits”

Universal EmotionsAnger

Contempt

Disgust

Fear

Happiness

Sadness

Surprise

About the Author

Judith Ortiz Cofer was born in 1952 and is a Puerto Rican author. Her work spans a range of literary genres including poetry, short stories, autobiography, essays, and Young-adult fiction.

Learning TargetsI CAN analyze how main characters are developed throughout the text. (characterization)

I CAN identify themes and communicate with others to interpret the text.

I CAN identify conflict (internal or external)

As You ReadAnnotated notes are your recorded insights you

have as you read.

As you read write in the margins:Characterization – (direct / indirect) underline when the author

reveals information about any character that helps the reader better understand them.

Conflict – Record the internal / external conflict that arises and indicate in margins what this may or does lead to in the story.

Climax – Record the turning point for the protagonist

Theme – Record what overall message you believe the author is attempting to convey through the story.

CONFLICT

A struggle between two forces in a literary work.

External Conflict

A struggle that takes place between

a character and some outside force.

Internal Conflict

A struggle that takes place within a character.

“Catch the Moon”

Conflicts Graphic Organizer

Left Side:

List conflicts Luis has in the story.

Right Side:

Tell whether the conflict is external or internal.

Small Group Discussion

Look for examples in the story that

cause Luis to see things differently.

Provide evidence from text to support

this analysis.

Discuss possible themes that emerge

from text.

Take out a sheet of paper and answer the following questions:

1. Why does Luis spend six months in juvenile

hall?

2. Why does Naomi Ramirez come to the

junkyard?

3. What does Luis do when he borrows his father’s car?


“Catch the Moon” Questions

1. Where has Luis spent the last six months? Why?

2. Where does Luis work? What task has

his father assigned him?

3. What is Luis’s “specialty”?


4. How did Luis’s group get in trouble?

5. Why does talking to Naomi sadden

Mr. Cintron? How does Naomi express

sympathy for Mr. Cintron?

6. What is Mr. Cintron’s plan for the

junkyard? What does Luis think of this idea?


10. What did Luis’s mother always tell

him?

11. Why does Luis cry outside the

Ramirez Funeral Home?


12. What does Luis learn while looking for a hubcap for Naomi’s car?

13. What does the VW hubcap represent

to Luis?

December 9, 2011

Have 13 questions from “Catch the Moon” out on your desk before announcements end.

Literary TermsTypes of Characters:

• Round = Well developed, allows reader to understand character very well.

• Flat – NOT developed, stereotyped, reader only gets to know very little.

• Dynamic – Changes throughout story

• Static – Does not change throughout story

Compare & Contrast LiteratureYou have now read “The Bass, The River, and Sheila

Mant”, “Thank You M’am”, and “Catch the Moon”1.Choose two of the stories and compare OR contrast

themes that emerge from them.

2.Make sure to clearly explain how the themes are developed in each story.

3.Response should be three parts: 1. Introduce your thesis (how the theme(s) are similar or different 2. How a theme emerges from one story 3. How the same (or opposite) theme emerges from the other story.

Strong Start to a ResponseShould a person ever change for someone

else? Both short stories “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” and “Catch the Moon” focus on this question as their central theme yet arrive at different conclusions.

What is left to do here?

Explain HOW each story conveys a different meaning as to whether a person should change for someone else.

Should a person ever change for someone else? Both short stories “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” and “Catch the Moon” focus on this question as their central theme yet arrive at different

conclusions. While “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” warns against changing in order to please others, “Catch the Moon” seems to reveal the benefit of changing for others.

Should a person ever change for someone else? Both short stories “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” and “Catch the Moon” focus on this question as their central theme yet arrive at different conclusions. While “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” warns against changing in order to please others, “Catch the Moon” seems to reveal the benefit of changing for others.

The narrator in “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” comes to realize that his decision to cut the bass loose was proof that he had turned his back on his love of fishing for the chance to be accepted by Sheila Mant. When things do not work out between them he realizes he has tried to be someone he is not in order to win her affection and states, “he never made that mistake again.”

The narrator in “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” comes to realize that his decision to cut the bass loose was proof that he had turned his back on his love of fishing for the chance to be accepted by Sheila Mant. When things do not work out between them he realizes he has tried to be someone he is not in order to win her affection and states, “he never made that mistake again.”

Luis comes to realize and appreciate the fact that his life is changed because of the encouragement of Naomi. He is able to see himself in a new light when she shows him the picture of him atop the mound of hubcaps holding the one she needs. Once he finds the hubcap he sees as “Cinderella’s shoe” and takes it to her he recognizes this is “the first good thing he’d given anyone in a long time.” and is happy about the change that has taken place because of Naomi.

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You need to have : “Thank You, M’am” reading out on desk Pen or pencil