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Hi gang,

Here are notes for this Friday and the following Monday.
Start off with your daily dose of grammar and some literary terms. Write your journal responses and work on chapter questions. Be sure to spend the rest of the class reading. I'll be around to say hello.

Friday

Daily Dose # 17

Define the dash and describe its uses.

The dash is an emphatic mark that usually indicates an interruption of thought, a sharp break or a shift in thought. Uses are to: introduce a word or group that you wish to emphasize; a break in thought; to set off distinguished parenthetical material.

Daily Dose # 18

Define quotation marks and describe the placement of end punctuation with quotation marks.

Quotation marks enclose words, phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs indicating the beginning and ending of material being repeated or quoted. The comma and period always come inside quotation marks. Question marks, exclamation points and dashes come outside quotation marks unless they are part of the quotation. The semicolon and colon always go outside quotation marks.

Monday

Daily Dose # 19

Describe the uses of the apostrophe.

The apostrophe is a mark of punctuation and a spelling symbol. It indicates omission of a letter or letters (wasn’t, can’t, he’s); forms the possessive case of a noun (the horse’s saddle, the boys’ clubhouse).

Daily Dose # 20

What is a verb?

A verb is a word that specifies actions or events that take place in time or a relation between two things.

Literary Devices

Friday

Symbolism

Symbolism refers to any object or person which represents something else.

"Finally, doves fly over the fields of war" (doves symbolize peace)

Tone

Tone refers to the attitude that a story creates towards it's subject matter. Tone may be formal, informal, intimate, solemn, somber, playful, serious, ironic, condescending, or many other possible attitudes. Tone is sometimes referred to as the mood that the author establishes within the story.

Imagery

Imagery is used in fiction to refer to descriptive language that evokes sensory experience. Imagery may be in many forms, such as metaphors and similes.

"First day of school smells like new books."

Monday

Metaphors

Comparing something to something else.

"The ocean is a bowl of dreams."

Simile

A comparison using like or as.

"He smells like a gym shoe."

Personification

Making an object act like a person or animal

"The ducks complained all day."

Chapter Questions (Be sure to answer in complete sentences)

Friday
1. Why is Ralph elected chief?
2. What is the "scar" that is repeatedly mentioned?
3. Why is Jack unable to kill the pig?
4. How is Piggy revealed as most closely tied to the world of adults?

Monday
5. What question does the littlun with the birthmark raise?
6. How do Ralph and Jack answer the question about the beast?
7. How do they start the fire?
8. What two groups with differing goals are emerging?


Journal Questions (write for 10-15 minuets)

Friday
Have you ever been manipulated? How/why? Have you ever manipulated someone?

Monday
Have you ever been scared? What were the circumstances? Tell me the details. 

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Questions for the story "The Brass Teapot"

1. List the following details for this story:

• Protagonist
• Antagonist
• Conflict
• Climax
• Point of View

2. The final line of the story, "we could buy our way into paradise" is an example of dramatic irony. Explain why.
3. Can you think of anything in our society that would drive someone to act like John and Alice do in this story? What might the teapot symbolize in that situation?

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More Lit. Terms

Personification

Making an object act like a person or animal

"The ducks complained all day."

Hyperbole

Exaggerated statement  or claim not meant to be taken literally.

"I've been there and back a million times."

Alliteration

Repeated consonant sounds.

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

Assonance

Repeated vowel sounds.

"The June moon loomed."

Onomatopoeia

Words sound like it is describing

The ceiling fan said, "clicketa clacketa clicketa."

Foil

In fiction, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character —usually the protagonist— in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character. In some cases, a subplot can be used as a foil to the main plot.

Foil (literature) - Wikipedia

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Terms to date:

Fundamental Components of Fiction

Theme (literature)

A theme is a main idea, moral, or message, of an essay, paragraph, movie, television program, book or video game. The message may be about life, society, or human nature. Themes often explore timeless and universal ideas and

 are almost always implied rather than stated explicitly. Along with the plot, character, setting and style, theme is considered one of the fundamental components of fiction.

Watch this Pixar short and write a theme statement (1-3 sentences).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjoDEQqyTig

Plot (narrative)

Plot is a literary term for the events a story comprises, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, a sequence, through cause and effect, or by coincidence. One is generally interested in how well this pattern of events accomplishes some artistic or emotional effect.

Character

A character is the representation of a person in a narrative or dramatic work of art such as a novel, play, or film.

In literature, characters guide readers through their stories, helping them to understand plots and ponder themes.

The study of characters requires an analysis of its relations with all of the other characters in the work.

Setting

In fiction, setting includes time, location, and everything in which a story takes place, and initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story.

Literary Devices

Symbolism

Symbolism refers to any object or person which represents something else.

"Finally, doves fly over the fields of war" (doves symbolize peace)

Tone

Tone refers to the attitude that a story creates towards it's subject matter. Tone may be formal, informal, intimate, solemn, somber, playful, serious, ironic, condescending, or many other possible attitudes. Tone is sometimes referred to as the mood that the author establishes within the story.

Imagery

Imagery is used in fiction to refer to descriptive language that evokes sensory experience. Imagery may be in many forms, such as metaphors and similes.

"First day of school smells like new books."

Metaphors

Comparing something to something else.

"The ocean is a bowl of dreams."

Simile

A comparison using like or as.

"He smells like a gym shoe."

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Lord of the Flies Chp.2-5

1.       How do the boys make a fire?

2.       What makes Simon a good/kind character?

3.       How do the littluns spend their time on the island?

4.       How does the mask transform Jack?

5.       Describe how Ralph has changed from the beginning of the novel?

Here is a list of words from the novel for you to define:

Preposterous

Mirage

Chastisement

Subsided

Belligerence

Tacitly

Nape

Detritus

Myriad

Festooned

Furtive

Gesticulate

Vicissitudes

Contrite

Tirade

Journal Question # 6

Have you ever let others manipulate or influence you? Why do people sometimes lose control in group/mob settings?

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Lord of the Flies Chapter Questions

1. Why did the boys chose Ralph as a leader? Who would you have chosen and why? (2)

1. What is the point of view of the narrator? Justify. (3)

1. Give a definition of foreshadowing and provide an example. (2)

1. What is symbolism? Can you give an example from the novel? What does your object symbolize? Explain. (3)

1. Golding describes characters in great detail: what they say, how they act, and from what others say about them. There are physical, intellectual, and social characteristics as well. Pick three characters from the novel and make a detailed character chart. (9)

1. Pick a word from the book that is new for you. What is it? Define it. (1)

 

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Writing a journal:

• Don’t confuse a journal with a diary. A diary mentions things that have happened (Heathers from 7-9 this Thursday); a journal reflects on the happenings.
• A diary lists appointments; a journal records events, but gives a sense of why they were meaningful.
• Think of your journal as a record of your life now, which you might read with pleasure some years from now when many of the rich details of your daily experience would otherwise be buried in your memory.

Your turn:

Sit down in the middle of your Wild Mind. Let your thoughts flow through you. The best way to write is to lose control. Remember your rules of writing. Reread them.

Write a journal entry (#5). Reflect about your first couple of weeks. Here are some guiding questions to help direct your writing:

What have you felt so far?

How do you feel about your situation?

Describe a situation that you have experienced. Where were you?

What did you feel?

If you have trouble starting, start with this:

Thinking back to my first day, I feel…