Friday/Monday, March 8/11, 2019

Announcements and Reminders for Friday/Monday, March 8/11, 2019:                           Friday, March 8 is the last day of the Third Term. Please hand in your unused hall passes.   Don't forget Daylight Savings Change on Saturday night!   Monday -- new term, clean slate, new beginning.   If you didn't hand in the How They Croaked Project, or  if you got a score on it that resulted in an F grade for the term, please hand it in or finish and resubmit it on Tuesday, March 12, so we can try to post a grade change before  "report cards" are posted.  On February 27/28, students handed in the project including these parts for 250 points on the third term grade: 1. Rubric with your name 2. Main Idea/Supporting Details  with reflection on the back 3.  Final Draft with title page, introduction page including the tombstone with basic information, introduction, body paragraphs about your famous person's life and death (mixed together using transitions), two sentence imitations highlighted in green, three opinions highlighted in yellow, and a conclusion, 4. Peer-Reviewed  Rough Draft The How They Croaked Chapter Assignment - STUDENT SAMPLE

Targets for Today: I understand these basic elements of literature:  plot, setting, character. and theme.

Today’s  Agenda for Friday/Monday, March 8/11, 2019: Students went to four stations to review character, setting, plot, and theme.

If You Were Absent: See the page on Canvas, Story Elements Stations  and use this document: Story Elements Stations Make-Up.docx Theme: Plot: Character: The Tale of Custard the Dragon Setting: http://www.sps186.org/downloads/basic/38186/The_Algonquin_Cinderella.cwk_WP.pdf You can find the text for The Giver at https://archive.org/stream/TheGiverFullBook/The%20Giver%20%28Full%20Book%29_djvu.tx

Vocabulary: Plot                  the series of related events that make up the story Exposition      the beginning of the story that introduces the setting and main characters Inciting Incident  :  the event or decision that causes the major conflict in the story Rising Action : the part of the story in which the action keeps getting more intense, building toward a climax  Climax:  the point of the story when the tension and excitement are at their highest level.       Falling Action: what happens after the main problem of the story has been resolved Resolution    the ending of the story -- how it turns out. Conflict         the problem in the story      Internal Conflict  happens inside the protagonist      External Conflict a problem that is outside the protagonist.  It comes from another character, nature, society, fate, or the supernatural  Character:  Character can be defined as any person, animal, or figure represented in a literary work. (Study.com) Antagonist   -- the "bad" guy (or force) that causes the problem for the protagonist Protagonist   -- the "good" guy -- the main character  Setting   when and where the story takes place Theme    the message about life or human nature expressed in the story

Help and Enrichment  Audio for The Giver: https://sites.google.com/a/winchesterps.org/the-giver-audio/