Tuesday, December 9, 2014

 

ENGLISH – HOUR 1 & 3 – Day 8

On the same sheet as your 3 inferences/predictions, complete (AND TURN IN FOR CREDIT) the following Seven Crucial Questions for “The Most Dangerous Game” using your book and your Literary Terms packet…

1. Who is the protagonist? Who is the antagonist?

2. What words does the author use to describe the setting/locale of the story?

3. Describe the central conflict/problem the protagonist is facing?

Is the conflict psychological, physical, or both?

4. Describe how the protagonist's personality is revealed in the story with…

1. actions

2. words

3. other characters’ words

5. List the six stages of plot (exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution)…for each stage, write a sentence from the story that occurs during that stage.

6. Describe 5 different moods the author tries to create in us as we read “The Most Dangerous Game.” For each mood, name the point in the story where the author tried to get us to feel it.

7. What is the theme/message of the story?

Begin REVIEW questions 1 – 13 (see handout) from “The Most Dangerous Game”…will finish, IN CLASS, tomorrow

Make flashcards for Friday’s PREFIX test? www.quizlet.com

ENGLISH homework – HOURS 1 & 3:

Study for Friday’s PREFIX test…perhaps create flashcards for the first 11 prefixes from “30-15-10” PINK master list - (a,ab,abs – hyper)

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ENGLISH – HOURS 4 & 5 – Day 8

1. Name 6 pretty big problems that some teenagers face that some parents (adults) don’t always realize.

2. You and a partner will work together to “fracture” the story of the Cyclops into a new story. While your story must change the original version, the overall "flavor" of your story must be similar: it must be clear to the reader from what story it derived.

3. There are lots of ways to change the original story:

· Change or swap the roles of the main characters.

· Have the story take place somewhere else.

· Have the story take place in another time period.

· Tell the story from a different character’s point of view.

· Make the problem of the story different.

· Change an important item in the story.

· You can even change the end of the story.

4. To begin, make a timeline that labels 15 main events from the Cyclops’ story – from beginning to end.

5. Next, choose one of the 6 big problems from today’s warm-up as your CYCLOPS.

6. Create a VENN DIAGRAM (two intersecting circles) with Cyclops in one circle and your choice for #5 (above) in the other circle.

· Then list 4 things they have in common and 2 things that they do not.

7. Decide on a theme…In other words, what deep message do you think the author hoped we would learn about life after reading his story?

§ Nothing obvious…do not write that we should stay away from one-eyed monsters. This is NOT theme. Themes are deeper than that.

8. Using your timeline (see #4), decide which events to keep and which to change.

9. Begin writing your Fractured Cyclops story…based on your choices in #8. Start at the beginning of the story…

· Will continue tomorrow.

ENGLISH homework – HOURS 4 & 5:

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