I can interpret literary elements as they are used in a text. I can analyze the differences in point of view and how it is used in a text. I can determine the theme in a text. I can analyze a frame story.

Have you ever pulled a prank on someone? If so, what was it and what was the outcome? OR Have you ever had someone pull a prank on you? If so, what was it and what was the outcome? OR If you have never pulled a prank on someone or had someone pull one on you, who would you prank and what would the prank be if you did one?

This story is the most popular one Saki (real name is H. H. Munro) wrote. It takes place in the early 1900’s in England. This is a time in England in which social classes were important, and people with money and land usually only met socially with other people with money and land. A person might be judged by who he or she knew not on what that person had achieved in his or her life. Letters of introduction between these families was a normal occurrence so that the social group could stay intact.

Write sentences for the vocabulary word using the word correctly.  Moor – an expense of open, rolling, infertile land.  Snipe – any of several long-billed game birds  Treacherous – readiness to betray trust or faithfulness  Bog – wet, spongy ground  Delusion – a false belief  Infirmities – weakness or ailment  Imminent – likely to happen soon  Mackintosh – raincoat  Pariah – despised, outcast

 Read “The Open Window”  Complete the Guided Reading Questions as you read.  After reading, complete the literary analysis handout.

 A Frame story is a story within a story.  Example: The movie Titanic begins with an elderly Rose telling the story of her voyage across the Atlantic. Then, we suddenly find ourselves in 1912, and the movie begins. Only a few times during the film do we return to the elderly Rose to touch in on her experience. The movie ends there, just as it began.

 “The Open Window” is a framed story. This means there is a story told within another story. On your own sheet of paper, draw a framed picture (making the frame thicker than it would be on a real picture) and write around in the frame the plot of the “outside” story. Then write in the picture what the story within the story is. A FRAMED STORY