May 21, 2012 Homework Spelling Unit 25 five time each Vocabulary Unit 13 own definitions Bring Literature and both workbooks and your notebooks Do Now Test

May 22, 2012 Homework Spelling pg 195 – Quiz Thursday Vocabulary pg – Completing the Sentence Literature pg 232 #5 and 6 Do Now Poems

May 23, 2012 Homework Get parent signature on Poetry and IRT grade Literature pg 232 #1 and 3 First Draft – On loose leaf – Skip lines – NO SCRIPT! Write in Print Spelling pg – Quiz tomorrow Vocabulary 154 – Quiz Friday Do Now Write a paragraph convincing your parents to do something for you.

May 24, 2012 Homework Vocabulary pg – Quiz tomorrow 2 nd Draft with corrections Do Now Spelling Quiz

May 25, 2011 Homework Spelling Unit 26 five time each Vocabulary Unit 15 own definitions Literature pg 232 #2,4,7,8, 9, and 10 Final Typed Copy of Paragraph Due Friday Do Now Quiz

May 29, 2012 Homework Final copy of Persuasive Paragraph due Friday Spelling pg 203 – Quiz Thursday Vocabulary pg – Quiz Friday Do Now Literature pg 232 Copy Literary Element and answer questions 1 and 2

May 30, 2012 Homework Spelling pg 204 – Quiz tomorrow Vocabulary pg 168 – Quiz Friday Literature pg 641 # 1 and 4 Do Now Spelling pg 202

May 31, 2012 Homework Vocabulary pg – Quiz tomorrow Literature pg 641 #2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 Persuasive Paragraph DUE TOMORROW!! DO Now Spelling Quiz

Literary Elements Tone: The attitude of the narrator towards the subject, ideas, theme or characters. It can be eerie, humorous, serious, threatening etc. Mood: The emotional quality or atmosphere of a story or poem. Stanza: A group of lines forming a unit in a poem. Together stanzas are the paragraphs of a poem. Repetition (refrain): The reoccurrence of sound, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a speech or piece of writing. Repetition increases the feeling of unity in a work. Visual Imagery: Is the collection of details that writers use to help readers visualize scenes. Visual imagery makes writing come to life.

Literary Elements Narrative Poetry – Poetry that tells a story Personification – A figure of speech which something non-human is given human qualities. Simile – a figure of speech using like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things

June 1, 2012 Homework Test on Poetry Thursday Comp Review Packet completed by Friday Do Now Quiz

Rhyme – the repetition of identical or similar sounds in the ends of words that appear close to one another in a poem – End Rhyme -rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines – Internal Rhyme -rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry

More literary elements Symbol – Any object, person, place, or experience that means more than what it is. Foreshadowing – The use of clues by an author to prepare readers for an event that will happen in a story or poem. Onomatopoeia – The use of a word or phrase that actually imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes.

Plot Map

June 4, 2012 Homework Spelling pg 211 and 219 Literature pg 626 #1 and 3 Test Thursday on Poetry Packet due Friday Do Now Spelling pg 210

External Conflict When a character struggles against an outside force – Man Versus Another Person or Machine – Man Versus Nature – Man Versus Society Internal Conflict Exists within the mind of the character who is torn between opposing feelings

I’ll Walk the Tightrope” End Rhyme: me; delicately why; sigh Internal Rhyme: stop; propped fall; parasol Character: Speaker Symbolism: tightrope Setting: life

The Wreck of the Hesperus Setting is a ship at sea during a winter storm. Off the coast of New England Characters: skipper, his daughter, old sailor, and the fisherman The skipper enjoys the company of his little daughter. He is arrogant and overconfident. He laughs at the old sailor’s warning. He is defeated and dies Daughter is fearful ask a lot of questions. Alone in the storm is terrified and prays that the waters will be stilled. She lost her father and in the end her life is also taken

June 5, 2012 Homework Spelling pg 212 and 220 Literature pg 626 #2,4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Do Now Spelling pg 218

June 6, 2012 Homework TEST TOMRROW STUDY! Comp Review Packet completed by Friday Spelling pg 213 and 221 – Quiz Friday

Plot map: The exposition includes the introduction of the skipper, the daughter and the setting. The rising action includes the sailor’s warning, the storm’s onset, and the father’s death. The climax is the daughter’s confrontation with death. The falling action is the wreck of the ship The resolution is the fisherman’s discovery of the girl’s body.

Literary Elements examples Simile ex. Line 24 They are the billows frothed like yeast Alliteration ex. line 57 dark and drear Personification ex. Gives rock human like qualities. Calling them cruel line 71

The Cremation of Sam McGee The story begins on Christmas day. Sam McGee, a gold miner in the Arctic, abhors the cold and dreads an icy grave. He ask his friend to cremate him, should he die. Soon Sam dies and the speaker travels with the corpse until he sees an abandoned ship which is called a derelict. He builds a fire with its wood and puts Sam in the fire. A while later, the speaker looks at the fire to see Sam sitting up smiling.

The Highwayman The highwayman is a thief in eighteenth century England. He promises to return to his love, Bess, by moonlight. King George’s redcoats learn of his planned return from Tim the ostler who overhears the highwayman. They capture Bess and lie in wait for the highwayman.

When Bess hears the highwayman returning, she fire a musket and shoots herself to warn the highwayman away, which is the climax of the story. The highwayman retreats, but soon finds out Bess is dead. Enraged, he rides back to avenge her death but instead he is killed. The resolution is his death.

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