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Unit 1- Is Conflict Necessary?
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Unit 1-is conflict Necessary?
Created by: Emily Gulley, Teacher of Dragons
08. 15. 2017.
Module 1- determining CEntral ideas/theme
Learning Targets:
- Determine a theme or central idea in a text
- Determine how the central idea emerges and is shaped by specific details
Success Criteria:
- Identify theme and how it develops throughout the text
- identify words, phrases, or details that provide direct support for the theme/central idea
Standard: RL.1.2 Determine Central Ideas of a text and analyze their development
Bell Work: 9/21
Imagine if you were charged with a crime, any crime from murder to jay walking, and the only way to determine your innocense or guilt, was by choosing between 2 doors. Behind one door is a wonderful prize (yay! You're innocent!) the other...a horrible, painful death( Uh oh...guilty!) Is this a fair system? Explain why or why not.
Bell Work: 9/21
What do you know about the Justice System in the United States? What do you think the 3 main components are? How would you interpret the phrase "Innocent until proven guilty"?
3 Components are: Law Enforcement- state and federal officers
Adjudication- from pretrial to sentencing
Corrections-probation, jail, death row
"The LAdy or the tiger?"
by Frank STockton
American writer of mainly humorous fiction, best known as the author of the The Lady, or the Tiger? (1884).
"The LAdy or the tiger?"
by Frank STockton
Remember: to find theme you should....
- first list some TOPICS or big ideas that are discussed in the story
- Then, think about what the author wants you to think about those topics..."the author thinks that______"
Today's Task: 9/21
In your groups, begin reading "The Lady or the Tiger?"
Fill out the organizer AS YOU READ
Define the challenging words that are on your organizer. (You may use your device)
Don't forget: Your Hurricane Narritive Stories are due today!
Bell Work 9/22
Today's Task: Finish reading "The Lady, or the Tiger?" and complete the Active Reading Organizer.
You will have questions and tasks on Monday while I'm testing.
What is theme/central idea?
What is theme/central idea?
- The theme of a story is what the author is trying to convey* — in other words, the central idea of the story.
- Short stories often have just one theme.
- The theme of a story is woven all the way through the story, and the characters' actions, interactions, and motivations all reflect the story's theme.
*Convey- to make something known or understandable
How do you determine the theme?
#1: You HAVE to actively read the story! (We'll talk more about this soon)
How do you determine the theme?
You can also watch this helpful short video clip:
Active Reading
Active reading means the reader is engaged in the text that he or she is reading.
You can be an active reader by:
1. Asking questions of the text: "I wonder what's going to happen next?" "Why did the main character not want to________?"
2. Make connections to other texts (text to text), to the real world (text to world) or text to your own life experiences (text to self)
3. Define challenging words that you are not familiar with
4. Write down your reactions as you read. Write down an interesting quote or fact that you read. You can also react with how you feel as you read.
5. Make sure you know the setting, point of view, character and conflict of the story you are reading. These can often help you determine a theme, too!
What are some possible themes?*
What are some possible themes?*
Love- triumph of love or heartbreak
Coming of age- growing up, loss of innocense
Courage- to deal with a problem, lack of, or developing.
Death-coping with, escaping
Prejudice – racism, bigotry, snobbery, dealing with.
Justice – the fight for, injustice, truth versus justice.
Discovery – what does it take to discover new places, inner meaning, strength, even treasure,.
Good versus evil – survival of one despite the other, triumph of one over the other.
*These are just some of the many themes we might find in what we read
LEt's try it!
Let's read this excerpt from the first short story you're going to read, "Kin."
LEt's try it!
possible themes?
Even based on these first few paragraphs, I'm noticing some key words and phrases that could lead me to a potential theme.
possible themes?
This quote makes me think that this story could have something to do with the theme of death.
It could also be the theme of survial. The boy could be fighting to stay alive.
Now it's your turn!
Today's Task: With your groups, begin reading the short story, "Kin" by Bruce McCallister.
As you read, fill in your Active Reading Organizer. Each box must be completed in order to receive credit.
I will go around with each group and ask questions and assist so make sure you are staying on task!
Now it's your turn!
If you and group members have the technology, you're welcome to listen to an audio recording of "Kin." The link is on the class website!
Today's TASk:
Finish reading "Kin" today with your groups and make sure that you have filled out your "Active Reading" Organzier.
Once you have done that, you can begin answering the critical thinking questions.
When answering the questions, please use complete sentences and use details from the story to support your answers.
Noredink.com
What is it?
An online program that allows you to practice and perfect your grammar skills
What's unique about noredink.com?
Lots of things! It's customizeable to YOUR likes and interests. It drills you on skills until you've proven that you've mastered them.
It keeps track of all your progress so you can see how you're doing. Plus, you can access it from your phone, tablet, or computer.
Noredink.com
How will I be graded?
I will assign a diagnostic, practice and then a quiz for each topic. You will have the entire week to work on it. We will start in class and you will finish on your own time. The grade I will use is a combination of the practice and your Quiz score.
Today's task: 8/28
Finish the Active Reading Guide for "Kin" as well as the Analysis Questions 1-5. What you do not finish today becomes homework due by Wednesday, 8/30.
You may take the questions home, but use the digital copy on the website.
Today's task: 8/28
Once you finish that, log onto noredink.com and create an account. Here are the steps:
- go to noredink.com
- Click "sign up"
- Choose "I am a student" and enter the class code: lovely brush 64
- create your account-keep your username and password handy (just use student portal if you can)
- Choose your interest categories
- you may begin working on the "Identifying Parts of Speech Diagnostic." All activies-diagnostic, practice and quiz are due by Friday, 9/1 by 11:59 pm.
lesson example:
lesson example:
Theme REinforced:
Learning Target: determine the THEME of a text
Success Criteria: identify the THEME and support it with details from the text
Take notes on the video on your active reading organizer.
Theme REinforced:
Theme vs. everything else...
"Hashtag the theme"
Big ideas include: love, friendship, greed, power, jealousy, fear etc.
"Hashtag the theme"
In your group, create a list of topics, or big ideas that are examined in the short story, "All Summer in a Day". Come up with at least 4. Write it on your sticky, put it up on poster when your group is done.
Now, write a specific sentence about what the author thinks about the topic you chose. (For example, “The author thinks that… power is a corrupting force”).
Your Turn: Create the theme
Now that you've come up with some topics and developed a thematic statement, come up with your own hastag and thematic statement about "All Summer in a Day" Make sure to remove "The author..."
Your Turn: Create the theme
Bell Work: 9/21
What do you know about the Justice System in the United States? What do you think the 3 main components are? How would you interpret the phrase "Innocent until proven guilty"?
Bell Work: 9/21
3 Components are: Law Enforcement- state and federal officers
Adjudication- from pretrial to sentencing
Corrections-probation, jail, death row
Learning Targets:
Determining Theme and deatils to support the theme
Success Criteria:
Identify a theme of the text and support it with specific details
"There will come soft rains"
Info on Ray Bradbury-
Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American
fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science
fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950)
and The Illustrated Man (1951), Bradbury is one of the most
celebrated among 20th and 21st century American writers of
speculative fiction. P.S- he also wrote "All Summer in a Day"
"There will come soft rains"
Where does the title come from?
The title comes from Sara Teasdale's poem, "There Will Come Soft Rains", which had a postapocalyptic
setting inspired by World War I.
What inspired Bradbury to write this story?
- Written in 1950 from the aftermath of WWII
- After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaskai, Japan
- Tensions rose between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R known as the Cold War
- This story portrays a scene of what it might be like when the human race is destroyed by a nuclear bomb
What inspired Bradbury to write this story?
Simile-
A simile is a type of figurative language tool that is used to make comparisons
similes use "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two things that are unlike
similes create vivid images in your mind as you read and the author uses them to help you better understand something
Simile-
Example from the story: “The house shuddered, oak bone on bone, its bared skeleton cringing from the heat, its wire, its nerves revealed as if a surgeon had torn the skin off to let the red veins and capillaries quiver in the scalded air.”
Significance: Creates an image of the house as a human being having surgery performed on it. Also reminds us to think about what has happend to the people who were living in this house.
Bell Work: 10/3
What are some ways that technology is influcencing how we in live our lives in a postive way?
What are some of the negative influences technology has on our lives today?
Explain.
Bell Work: 10/4
List some ways that technology has benefited YOUR life.
Then, think about an invention (that hasn't been invented yet) that would make your life, or the lives of others, easier.
In a minute, you will share your ideas with your groups and then you will all come up with one invention to share with the class.
Bell Work: 10/4
Bell Work 10/5
Watch the short clip, "19 Facts about Bill Gates" house.
As you watch, jot down some of the aspects of the house that you think are the most interesting. Pay attention to all the different uses of technology.
Now, make sure your active reading organizer is finished and begin your analysis questions
Bell Work 10/5
Bell Work: Extended response
On your last bell work box, write an exended response to this prompt. Your response must be at least 4-5 sentences long.
Bell Work: Extended response
Ray Bradbury uses non-conventional narrative techniques in writing this story for example, (no human characters, no dialogue, straight chronological order, no flashback, figurative language). Do you think this was an effective way for Bradbury to tell this story? Why or why not?
Let's begin!
Follow along with the text as Lenoard Nimoy read us "There Will Come Soft Rains"
I will stop and give you some time to respond to your active reading organizer.
Let's begin!
Module 3: Individual, event & idea Development
Learning Targets:
- gain understanding of the background knowledge needed to understand the text
- Begin reading "The Cask of Amontillado"
Success Criteria:
- follow along with the notes and complete the active organizer
- follow along with the text and complete the active organizer
Module 2: Individual, event & idea Development
Bell Work: 10/16
What is the difference between being confident and capable and being arrogant and self absorbed?
How can being arrogant or cocky sometimes get a person in trouble?
Bell Work: 10/16
Complex Characters:
Watch the video and take notes. If at anytime you need to go back and view the notes, please go to the class website.
Complex Characters:
About the Author:
Edgar Allan Poe-
The CAtacombs/Crypts of italy
What is a catacomb?
- an underground cemetery consisting of a subterranean gallery with recesses for tombs
- A first level of the catacombs is from thirty-three to forty-nine feet below the surface, with galleries ten to thirteen feet high; sometimes there are three or even four levels. Niches for the bodies line the passages.
CArnevale-
- the last celebration before lent begins on Ash Wednesday.
- Celebrations are held all over Italy from Venice and Milan down to the villages and towns of Sicily.
- The celebration of Carnevale is the Italian version of Mardi Gras in New Orleans
CArnevale-
What is a CAsk of Amontillado, exactly?
A cask is a large barrellike container made of wood, metal, or plastic, used for storing liquids, typically alcoholic drinks.
What is a CAsk of Amontillado, exactly?
Amontilllado- is a variety of sherry wine
Connoisseur- is a trained and knowledgeable wine professional, who specializes in all aspects of wine
Bell Work 10/17
Read the following quote from our next story, "The Cask of Amontillado":
"We had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses..."
Bell Work 10/19
Make a prediction about what some possible themes of this stort story might be. Think about some "big ideas" that we might find while reading.
Bell Work: 10/17
Montresor, the narrator of “The Cask of Amontillado,” feels that revenge is necessary to right a wrong. Draw the wheel below on your bell work paper and describe revenge. For example, on one of the “legs,” define it. On other legs, you can write examples of ways and reasons people often seek revenge.
Bell Work: 10/17
Bell Work: 10/18
How would you describe Montresor? How would you describe Fortunato? Are they complex or simple characters and explain why you think that way. (3-5) sentences.
Use your notes on your active organizer to help you.
bell work 10/26: Active and passive voice
Bell Work: 10/19
Is Montresor a "reliable narrator" ( I mean, can we really trust that he told us the truth? Explain why or why not. 2-3 sentences.
LEt's WAtch:
Today's TAsk: Group Questions
In your group, work collaboratively to answer the text dependent questions from “The Cask of Amontillado” Once you come to a response, write your questions and the answers on your poster paper. Once groups have answered the questions, the Representative will share your group’s response with the class.
Group TAsk
Bell work for 10/24:
Montresor acts as judge, jury, and executioner of Fortunato. Is there any
crime/offense that Fortunato could have committed that would make Montresor’s rage seem reasonable to you? Do you think individuals are ever justified in taking justice into their own hands? Explain your thoughts.
Bell work for 10/24:
Coat of arms activity
Montresor seemed to take his Family's motto and coat of arms very seriously.
Your next task will be to create your own coat of arms! Follow the directions on the worksheet. You may begin working on your coat of arms after your analysis questions are finished.
Coat of arms activity
Bell Work 10/22:
Did you enjoy the ending of "The Cask of Amontillado?" If so, explain why.
If you would have preferred an alternative ending, what would have happened? 3-4 sentences.
Bell Work 10/25:
bell work 10/26: Active and passive voice
Copy down some notes as we discuss the active voice and the passive voice. You might find these helpful as you being working on your *NEW* noredink.com assignment: Active and Passive Voice, due by THURSDAY NOV.2nd @11:59 pm
bell work 10/26: Active and passive voice
Module 3: Analyzing the Structure of Text
Learning Target:
Analyze how the author uses text elements to create suspense and tension in the story
Module 3: Analyzing the Structure of Text
Success Criteria:
follow along with the notes presentation to gain background information for the text
What is text structure?
- Text structure refers to the ways that authors organize information in text.
- Learning to recognize the underlying structure of content-area texts can help students focus attention on key concepts and relationships, anticipate what's to come, and monitor their comprehension as they read.
What is text structure?
TExt STructure in Fiction
1.Openings- can establish a general feel of the story. Might focus on setting, character or in medias res (in the middle of something already happening)
TExt STructure in Fiction
2.Sequence- most narrators use chronolgical order- the order of events in which they occur
3. Flashbacks: sections of a narrative that describe a time from before
4.Foreshadowing: hints about what will happen later in the story
5.Pacing: refers to the "speed" with which the narrator relates events. When describing a scene at length and giving lots of details, this "slows down" the pace
suspense:
Suspense: a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen.
Foreshadwing can create suspense.
suspense:
Tension:
Tension is created through conflict.
Pacing can also add tension to the story. By moving quickly from one idea to another in a scene, tension can be built.
Dramatic Irony- when the reader knows more about what is happening than the narrator does.
Tension:
Richard Connell:
Richard Connell, born in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1893, was a popular author and journalist whose short stories were regularly published in magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's Weekly. His story, The Most Dangerous Game is his best remembered work.
Richard Connell:
Back ground info: Big Game Hunting
historically associated with the hunting of Africa's "Big Five" game (lion, African elephant, Cape buffalo, leopard and rhinoceros), and with tigers and rhinoceroses on the Indian subcontinent
Teddy Roosevelt
Ernest Hemmingway
Historical Context:
Historical Context:
The story takes place around the time of the Russian Revolution, as Zaroff tells Rainsford: "After the debacle in Russia I left the country, for it was imprudent for an officer of the Czar to stay there” (1.90). He is referring here to the overthrow of the aristocracy by the Bolsheviks and the birth of the Soviet Union with leaders such as Stalin.
The timeframe is both important and not important. It explains why Zaroff is on the island (he had to flee Russia) and why he is the snob that he is (he grew up as an empowered son of a nobleman), but it is not directly relevant to the plot of the story itself.
Anticpation Guide
Anticpation Guide
end of unit 1
Short Story Group project coming soon!