Monday/Tuesday, September 20/21, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                   Book Discussion Groups will be held  NEXT TIME! Remember that you can bring treats to share with your group if you wish. If you have lost your assignment papers, see the required reading tab above. And Coming Up -- Hobbit Day! Don't forget our spelling test on September 25/28: here/hear   See hear/here. barely/barley See barely/barley Also see the spelling tab above for example sentences. Prepare for your post test on Literary Terms -- September 29/30. Literary Terms Book orders (Scholastic) will be sent in again on September 30. Should you need a preview or plan to be absent from class on any of the days during the rest of September: What We're Doing -- Sept. 15 - Sept. 30

Targets for Today: I can recognize and define major elements of literature, especially theme, topic, genre, and summary, point of view, tone, irony, connotation, illusion, dialogue, flashback, and foreshadowing.  (Utah State Core, Language Arts 7, Reading: Literature Standard 2, 3, 4, 6)

Today’s  Agenda: Pick up your composition book. Ms. Dorsey will give some students a special assignment as they come into class.          1. Show that you understand theme, topic, genre, and summary. Work with partners to create examples.    Literary Terms Key for Sorting Hats Here is the document we used: theme sorting worksheet.docx Click the link.  Then, to view it, click the "Download" tab. 2. Learn more about more literary terms. (We've already worked with plot, character, conflict, theme, genre, and various types of figurative language,) Other Literary Terms     Add these to your Literary Terms list.  point of view: Who is telling the story?  (Receive tape-in for your composition book.)  -- Did Ms. Dorsey give you a special assignment as you came into class? tone:  the speaker's or narrator's attitude toward the subject irony:  a contrast between what is expected and what actually happens. connotation:  the meaning or feeling that is associated with a word.  allusion:  a reference to a well-known person, event, story, or thing Allusion dialogue:  when characters talk to each other    flashback:  when the author goes back briefly to a time earlier than the main story  (example: When Dumbledore tells Harry about how Harry's parents died.) foreshadowing:  when the author gives hints about what will happen later (example: A character walks into the room and says, "I have a really bad feeling about this.")    3.  Create a plot map for this story: Label with  six parts of a story. Listen and follow along in the book. We'll watch for each of our new literary terms. Boxing Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQvHlqft8FU with helmets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0IgPBvtwVA "Amigo Brothers"-- page 245 in the green literature book (In case you were absent, here is the story.) http://vvjh.vviewisd.net/ourpages/auto/2015/8/19/66560233/ amigo_brothers_story_by_piri_thomas.pdf   A1 only finished listening to the story. Literary Elements in “Amigo Brothers”: Figurative Language Literary Elements in "Amigo Brothers": More Elements    4.  Create a plot map for this story: Label with  six parts of a story. Listen and follow along in the book. We'll watch for each of our new literary terms.  Short story: Three Skeleton Key  page 65 in the green literature book (In case you were absent, here is the story.) http://www.mpsaz.org/taylor/staff/bjdavis/short-stories/files/threeskeletonpdf.pdf

If You Were Absent: See above. Download the handout (or pick up a copy from the handout box when your return) and create your own examples on it, then read the stories, and learn the terms, copying the definitions onto your literary terms list.