Monday 4/20 A-day Tuesday 4/21 B-day Warm Up Vocab Short Story Short Story Organizer

Warm Up To prepare for our formative please complete the sentences for the last 5 words Try and relate your sentences back to what you did this past weekend Review the definitions when you are finished

Formative Please put your name on the formative Make sure to READ THE DIRECTIONS When finished please place it in the tray and respond to the following prompt: Think about the characters, conflict, and resolution of your favorite book, or last book club book. What was the theme of the book? How do you know? Provide evidence.

Theme The universal message about life Written in a sentence Last class we discussed theme What is theme? The universal message about life Written in a sentence How do we find theme? Characters Conflict Resolution

Short Story Each table will be assigned a short story from the textbook Please take your time reading the short story When you are finished you will be completing an outline

Short Stories The Cat Who Thought She Was a Dog and the Dog Who Thought He Was a Cat Page 5 The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter Page 172 Ribbons Page 524 The Treasure of Lemon Brown Page 532

In your journal please outline the following elements of your story Story Title and Author:____________ Characters Setting Conflict Climax Resolution Theme

Thesis, Evidence, and Commentary Thesis is the claim you are making, in this case it will be about the theme of the story Evidence is something from the text that supports the thesis, in this case evidence to support the theme that you have identified Commentary is your explanation of how the evidence supports the assertion, this explains the quotes and text references that you are using to support your theme