Literature: Monday, October 15, 2018 Handouts: Before You Read: The Folk Tale and Fables Independent Reading Chart for Oct. 15 – 22 Homework: * Read your AR book 20 – 30 minutes daily and record progress on chart Due date for meeting AR Goal is October 26 * Study for Lit Test #2: Terms in Literature. Test is tomorrow! Study Cornell Notes # 7A, Terms “ “ “ # 7B, Terms continued “ “ “ #8 , Power Verbs Know how these terms apply to short stories we read in Intro to Lit Click “Resources” web page on Mrs. D’s website for story links 3. Assignments Due: Independent Reading Chart for October 8 – 14 Have you been studying for tomorrow’s Lit Test?

Today’s Goal: Learn more about fables and folk tales as you read and analyze a folk tale (desk Lit book, pp. 765 – 769, also online). Outcomes: Identify “cause and effect” events and list them in a flow chart. Name two characteristics that are commonly true for many folk tale heroes.

Starter #1: Our reading today is a folk tale, but this one is not a fairy tale. It comes to us from African American culture. This particular folk tale is told by Zora Neale Hurston, a Harlem Renaissance “artist” from the 1920s – 1930s in Harlem, NYC. Hurston was a writer, and writers are considered “artists.” If you open up your desk Lit book, you can see her picture and mini-bio on p. 769. In 2005, Oprah Winfrey produced a made for TV movie that was based on one of Hurston’s works, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Hurston passed away in 1960. Hurst liked to use “dialect” in her folk tale writings and loved to weave in humorous elements. For that reason, we are inviting a professional actor to read this story to us, while we follow along. Turn in your Lit textbook to p. 765 (this is also an online PDF).

Starter #2: Before we begin this folk tale, look at our “Before You Read” handout. We’re going to read . . . Literary Focus—Folk Tales and Fables (Note: Today’s folk tale is NOT a fairy tale) Reading Skills—Cause and Effect Now take out a sheet of paper and prepare to jot down the chain of events. You will make simple boxes, with one event named in each box, like the boxes pictured on the handout. (Event means what happened.) Keep this notebook paper in your binder: You will use it again on Wed. To make this easier for you, the actor James Earl Ray is going to read the story “Bruh Bear . . .” while we follow along in the Lit book, page 765.