Warm-uP STUDY TIME!! Study your assigned words (spelling + definitions) Remember, word study fully completed is your ticket out today. Get your spiral out and date it!

Set up your spiral notes like this: Word Definition in your own words Page # found in the novel

A quick review of literary devices plus three fiction elements

What is a literary device? Literary devices are specific language or writing techniques. Writers use these to create text that is clear, interesting, and memorable.

Page 4

personification Page 5

hyperbole Page 10

simile Page 11

oxymoron Other examples: pretty ugly civil war awfully nice same difference original copy Pages 3 to 20

metaphor Page 22

direct characterization (fiction technique) Page 17 The author tells us directly something about the character. Example: John is really tall.

internal conflict (fiction element) Page 3 The character struggles with the question “What kind of person do I want to be?”

external conflict: struggle with nature (fiction element) Page 22 Characters battle nature and struggle with the question “Will I survive?”

Be looking for these literary devices/fiction elements as you read the next three days. Add to your list. Term Examples— simile/ oxymoron/ Definition in your own words Page # found in the novel You will have an assignment next week. You may want to add the page numbers of additional samples you notice in your spiral as you read. page 11 page 16

Find the following passages from chapter 3… Brady’s mind not on school Ben/Brady’s relationship Upsetting news Brady received while at school

Brady did not call a warning to the red kayak Brady did not call a warning to the red kayak. Now it is lost on the river. What might brady be thinking and feeling right now? CONTINUE READING RED KAYAK Until the bell After chapter 3

Word study tests Why? Put your name on the side of the paper that has the numbers of your assigned words. Do not turn the paper back and forth!!!! Stay on one side only! TEST ONLY ON YOUR ASSIGNED WORDS. Stay with me! We will do all the spelling part first! Do the vocabulary meanings last. Use only the correct letter of the word. Test only on your assigned words. Do not write any other words on your test form. If you are turning the paper over, you are not following directions!

Read to the bell. Add literary devices/fiction elements and page #’s as you read. Word Examples— simile/ oxymoron/ Definition in your own words Page # found in the novel You will have an assignment next week. You may want to add the page numbers of additional samples you notice in your spiral as you read. page 11 page 16

Citation Review Anytime you use the author’s words, use this pattern. Quotation marks. Exact words. Quotation marks. Parenthesis. Author’s last name. Page number. Parenthesis. Period. “Exact words of the author” (Last 777). “ …… .” (Cummings 33). The information in the parenthesis always matches the first information in the Works Cited entry. Work Cited Cummings, Priscilla. Red Kayak. New York: ………..Scholastic Inc, 2004. Print.

Assignment: Do the literary devices/elements on the back page. Try these pages if you can’t find your own: Internal conflict—(3) Idiom—(4) Personification—(5) Hyperbole—(10) Simile—(11) Oxymoron—(16) Direct characterization—(17) Metaphor—(22) External conflict/nature—(22) When you finish: Read Chapter Four (pages 21-28). Work on your web quest Watch any of the videos on the Chesapeake Bay site (use earphones) Read additional information from the Chesapeake Bay web site.

Practice: Let’s find some literary device/fiction element examples together. Look on these pages: Internal conflict—(3) Idiom—(4) Personification—(5) Hyperbole—(10) Simile—(11) Any oxymoron—(pages 3 to 20) Direct characterization—(17) Metaphor—(22) External conflict/nature—(22) Have your spiral ready.