1. Realism Bellringer #93/14/13 Directions: Start these bellringers on a new sheet of paper. Use your Satire notes from yesterday to answer these questions. 1.Give the definition of satire. 2.Give one characteristic of satire. 3.List three different devices of satire. Today’s Target: I can analyze how satire is used in a text to support the author’s point of view.

2. Realism Bellringer #103/18/13 Directions: Use your Satire notes to answer these questions. 1.What is the issue being targeted? 2.How does the author feel about the issue? 3.What changes to this issue does this cartoon suggest need to be made? Today’s Target: I can analyze how satire is used in a text to support the author’s point of view.

3. Realism Bellringer #113/21/13 1.What do you think the tone of “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is? 2.List one exaggeration that proves Jim Smiley was addicted to gambling. 3.What do you think the point of this short story was? Today’s Target: I can identify foreshadowing in a text.

4. Realism Bellringer #123/25/13 1.What is Mrs. Mallard’s first reaction to the news of her husband’s death? 2.What true feelings does Mrs. Mallard discover she has about her husband’s death? 3.Explain why the ending of this story is ironic. Today’s Target: I can analyze the author’s choices and how they support the theme of a text.

5. Realism Bellringer #133/26/13 1.Why is the narrator writing her diary in secret? 2.Describe the type of relationship the narrator and her husband seem to have. 3.Initially, how does the narrator feel about the wallpaper? 4.How does she feel about it at this point in the story? Today’s Target: I can analyze the author’s choices and how they support the theme of a text.

6. Realism Bellringer #143/27/13 1-3. List three significant facts about Emily Dickinson’s life. Today’s Target: I can analyze the author’s choices and how they support the theme of a text.

7. Works to study for Realism Test Walt Whitman: “I Hear American Singing” and “I Sit and Look Out” Frederick Douglass’s Autobiography excerpt “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” The Gettysburg Address The Adventures of Huck Finn “The Lowest Animal” “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” “The Story of an Hour” “The Yellow Wallpaper”