Sign in. Then back to your partner seat. Pd 3 – Anyone up and walking around, not in seat, once final bell rings will receive an after school detention. Warm Up: Our first real grades will be the reading guide and our LEQ essay. Evaluate your effort on the reading guide. Consider your classroom behavior, use of text evidence and how much you have completed on the reading guide. After the warm-up, the summer reading and late contracts will be collected.

*20 minutes to finish the reading guide. -The following questions you can discuss instead of writing answers for: -It will be graded (Hw/Cw grade). -Your answers should help you on the LEQ so do a nice job!

“S of T” Vocabulary Remember these words? Did you use context clues to figure out what they meant? You’ll probably see these words again!

Chaos (sounds like K-os) “For want of a lion, all manner of insects, vultures, infinite billions of life forms are thrown into chaos and destruction.”

Chaos Definition: Complete disorder, confusion Is chaos a good thing or bad thing? How can the characters avoid chaos?

(sounds like Re-zil-ee-ent) Resilient “It [the T-rex] came on great oiled, resilient, striding legs.”

Resilient Definition: Able to become strong, healthy, or successful again after something bad happens. Able to return to an original shape after being pulled, stretched, pressed, bent, etc. What does this say about the T-Rex’s power?

(sounds like stag-nate-ing) Stagnating (sounds like stag-nate-ing) “They gazed back at the ruined Monster, the stagnating mound, where already strange reptilian birds and golden insects were busy at the steaming armor.”

Stagnating Definition: Cease to flow or move Is this a pretty image with regards to the dinosaur?

(sounds like cl-odd) Clod “He held up a clod of dirt, trembling…”

Clod Definition: A lump of dirt or clay. What did Eckles find in the clod of dirt that upset him?

(sounds like un-doo-late) Undulate “In the slime, tiny insects wriggled, so that the entire body seemed to twitch and undulate, even while the monster itself did not move.”

Undulate Definition: Having a wavy surface or edge Is the Monster moving?

Quaver (sounds like qa-ver) “The sign of the wall seemed to quaver under a film of sliding warm water.”

Quaver Definition: To quiver, as from weakness, tremble

Vast (sounds like va-ast) “Eckels glanced across the vast office at a mass and tangle, a snaking and humming of wires…”

Vast Definition -- Great in size, amount or extent. So what is Bradbury saying about the office?

Envy (sounds like en-vee) “Think,” said Eckels. “Every hunter that ever lived would envy us today.”

Envy Definition: The feeling of wanting to have what someone else has. What is Eckles suggesting about the other hunters?

(sounds like dee-leer-ee-um) Delirium (sounds like dee-leer-ee-um) “Sounds like music and sounds like flying tents filled the sky, and those were ptertodactyls soaring with cavernous gray wings, gigantic bats of delirium and night fever.”

Delirium Definition: State of confusion If this is how the setting (in the past) is being described, how does this connect to how Eckles has been feeling?

(sounds like infinite-tes-a-ma-lee) Infinitesimally “Crushing certain plants could add up infinitesimally. A little error here would multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion.”

Infinitesimally Definition: In amounts so small as to be barely measurable. Meaning killing the plants could be a small error that would show results sixty million years later.

Before we finish preparing for our test – let’s analyze the test question. What is it really asking us for? LEQ: How do authors structure a text using mystery, tension and surprise to show theme?

Graphic organizer Suggested organizers: Plot Diagram -or -- Six Boxes Exposition Rising Action Climax Falling Action Resolution Theme *Remember that your theme is the lesson learned and is not just one word!