1. Good morning! Today is Monday, February 1 st, 2016, a White Day! Remember** Your second semester schedules start TODAY! Do Now: Glue in the teaching point. Put your Author’s craft post-its on the chart paper around the room and hand in your entry. Homework: Complete theme box and bullets for themes 1-2. You must use QUOTES from your novel. Author’s craft post-it for at least two of your pieces of evidence.

2. The struggle between good and evil. How power slowly eats away and corrupts. How the physically strong can use their gifts to protect others. How even the smallest and weakest can find the strength to defeat evil. Love and how love drives us to be better than we are. Love and how love can cause us to act reckless and irrational. How jealously can cause people to make uncharacteristic choices. The power of hope and determination. How people can change. How people can use isolation to replace fear. “Mob mentality” and how some people would rather join the crowd for the wrong reasons than stand alone for the right ones.

3. Theme- Jealously can cause people to make uncharacteristic choices. "the boy cried savagely," (4) and "seized her roughly" (4). -Descriptive words and phrases; this shows how their jealousy is overwhelming them.

4. Jealous can cause people to make uncharacteristic choices. “They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying, back into a tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed and locked the door,” (4). -Sentence variety; the inclusion of a long sentence shows how caught up in their own jealousy the students are, they are blinded by it.