1. Welcome to English!
QotD:

2. Step 1: DMA
Grab your Ender’s Game rubric from the outbox at the front of the room.
Based on your grade…
What do you need to work on?
What did you do well?
What questions do you have?

3. Step 2:Close Reading Close reading is: Focused Concise Purposeful
Analytical

4. Step 2: Close Reading Read the text in chunks Write in short-hand
Keep the rubric with you

5. Step 3: Character Examples
Meets Standard
Exceeds Standard
Identify the roles that each character plays
Flat
Round
Main
Supporting
Dynamic
Static
Protagonist
Antagonist
Foil
Identify the main character traits of each character
ALL ASPECTS of “Meets Standard”
AND
Analyze how central characters develop throughout the story
Analyze how central characters and their development influences the plot/theme
Analyze how the different characters interact with each other

6. Step 3: Character Examples

7. Step 4: Diction/Tone Examples
Use context clues to deduce the meaning of unfamiliar words - this would include historical references that you are unfamiliar with
Some analysis on the impact of an author’s word choice (both denotative and connotative)
ALL ASPECTS of “Meets Standard”
AND
Analyze the impact of an author's word choice (both denotative and connotative) on the meaning of the text
Analyze the impact of an author’s word choice (both denotative and connotative) on tone
Analyze the impact of syntax on tone

8. Step 4: Diction/Tone Examples

9. Step 5: Theme Examples
Important theme(s) are identified over the course of the text
ALL ASPECTS of “Meets Standard”
AND
Analyze the development of theme(s) over the course of the text
Analyze the impact of plot progression, character development, literary devices, and diction on theme

10. Step 5: Theme Examples

11. These next two weren’t on your rubric, but will be used in future assignemnts…

12. Step 6: Literary Device Examples
Analyze the impact of an author’s inclusion of specific literary devices within the immediate context
Alliteration, Dialogue, Hyperbole, Idiom, Imagery, Irony, Metaphor, Personification, Rhetorical Question, Simile, etc.
ALL ASPECTS of “Meets Standard”
AND
Analyze the impact of an author’s inclusion of specific literary devices on plot progression/character development/theme/tone 

13. Step 6: Literary Device Examples

14. Step 7: Plot Progression Examples
Identify all major plot points on the plot line
Exposition
Rising action
Climax
Falling action
Resolution
Identify types of all major conflicts within the text
person vs. person
person vs. self
person vs. nature
person vs. society
ALL ASPECTS of “Meets Standard”
AND
Analyze the significance and effects of particular plot points
Analyze the significance and effects of particular conflicts
Analyze the author's choice to place plot points in a particular order
Analyze the author's choice to place conflicts in a particular order

15. Step 7: Plot Progression Examples

16. Step 8: Your turn Please form 5 groups (5-ish people)
Make a poster with a minimum of 5 A- quality annotations representing your assigned section of the rubric.
Highlight the text on the page, draw a line on your poster, and write your annotation large enough that it could be seen from at least 5 feet away.