September 30 - October 4

Fortune Cookie

What you will miss if you miss this week --

• We will complete our compare and contrast projects
• We will review point-of-view
• We will begin generating ideas and plots for our own short stories

Objective:
analyze different forms of point of view, including limited versus omniscient, subjective versus objective.

 Padlets for 6th Period

Characterization

Conflict

Theme

Padlets for 7th Period

Characterization

Conflict

Theme

September 23 - September 27

What you miss if you miss this week:

• We will analyze indirect characterization and use of figurative language.

• We will read "Abuela Invents the Zero" as well as some other stories related by theme.

• We will compare and contrast the stories we have read using what we have learned so far.

 "He came down out of the high, flat region in the evening by bus, with two small overnight bags full of maps, sun lotions and medicines."

"A Distant Episode" by Paul Bowles 

“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”  

J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew

Characterization Sentence Stems -

In the short story ____________________, _____________________ shows ___________________
                           Title                                    Character                                      character trait
when she ___________________________ .
                action

Readers can infer that __________________________ is ________________________  from 
                                  Character                                          trait
____________________________________. 
description/details

"The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she lived with, her only boy. He was sitting on the edge of his chair at the table, bent over the orange sports section of the Journal. 'Now look here, Bailey,' she said, 'see here, read this,' and she stood with one hand on her thin hip and the other rattling the newspaper at his bald head. 'Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people. Just you read it. I wouldn't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn't answer to my conscience if I did.'"    ~Flannery O'Connor "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

 

Objectives

• analyze how the central characters' qualities influence the theme of a fictional work and resolution of the central conflict.[8.6B]

• analyze literary works that share similar themes across cultures.[8.3A]

• make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding.[8.RCD]

September 16 - September 20

What you will miss if you miss this week -

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• Review Theme and identify theme in our reading
• Create our Kiosk Presentations (major grade)
• Choose new reading selections
• Review characterization and identify and analyze indirect characterization in our reading

This week we will be calling home about missing assignments and GCS referrals will be made.  Please make sure you come to tutorials the day after any absence.

September 8 - September 13

What you will miss if you miss this week -

• We will use Cornell Notes to review Conflict and Theme.
• We will read "The Lake" by Ray Bradbury and identify themes and conflict.
• We will identify themes and conflict in our independent reading selections.
• We will work in groups to create a Kiosk Presentation.

Don't forget Open House is Thursday, September 12, at 5:30 pm!!  If you cannot be there with your parent(s) please be sure to give them your ID number so they will be able to participate.


Questions for 9/11
1.  What is the conflict, and is it internal or external?  (Be sure to describe both sides.)
2.  How is the conflict resolved?
3.  How do the qualities of the main character lead to the resolution?

Question stems for conflict/plot

The reader can conclude that when the character **** that the character is ****

Read these sentences --  These sentences show that the character --

The author included paragraph *** in order to

What effect does the character's behavior have on the resolution

Which sentence best explains why...

Which event triggers the main problem in the story?

Which statement best expresses the main conflict in the story?

 

Fiction Quotes

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark Twain 

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Mark Twain

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Oscar Wilde

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Jim Rohn

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Francis Bacon

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Stephen King

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Lord Byron

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Alice Walker

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Virginia Woolf

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

Paul Theroux

     

Padlet Links for 9/4

2nd Period Padlet

4th Period Padlet

5th Period Padlet

6th Period Padlet

7th Period Padlet

6th Period's Poem

Hump day snack

so much depends

upon

the delicious spicy

food

covered with hot

sauce

beside the cold

drink

                   

                             

5th Period's Poem

Joel's Bad Day

so much depends

upon

a pink fluffy

football

dropped by butterfinger

joel

on the painted

hashmark.

4th Period's Poem

The Tractor

so much depends

upon 

a john deere

tractor

sprinkled with acid

rain

beneath the grey

sky.

2nd Period's Poem

THE FLAMING BOAT

so much depends

upon

a flaming blue

boat

sparkled with red

diamonds

above the misty

sea