1. Tuesday: Warm-up Complete the following task:
Use your Keith sentences as a resource to describe this picture in a paragraph using sentence patterns #5, 9, and 8. You can use these in any order you’d like.

2. Rats peered from garbage cans.
Noun 1
Rats peered from garbage cans.
Article + Noun 2
The rats peered from garbage cans.
Adjective. + Noun 3
Greedy rats peered from garbage cans.
Pronoun 4
They peered from garbage cans.
Adverb 5
Cautiously, rats peered from garbage cans.
Absolute Phrases 6
Eyes wide, ears twitching, rats peered from garbage cans.
Participle Phrases 7
Munching on stale cheese, rats peered from garbage cans.
Prepositional Phrases 8
Beneath the glow of a full moon, rats peered from garbage cans.
Infinitive Phrases 9
To watch for prowling cats, rats peered from garbage cans.
Adverbial Clause 10
As the half moon arose in the dingy sky like a hunk of rancid cheese, rats peered from garbage cans.
Implied Adjective Clause 11
Suspicious of their surroundings, rats peered from garbage cans.

3. KWL
Warm-up: Take 5 minutes and create a KWL chart that describes what you know and what you want to know about India. India is the setting for the short story we are about to read.
We will watch a short clip about British rule over India. This piece of history impacts the text we are about to read.
Our wrap-up will be what you learned about India today.

4. Mohandas Gandhi
We are about to choral read a speech written by Mohandas Gandi.
First read the speech independently.
You will be broken into seven groups. Each group will be assigned a paragraph of the speech. Decide what is significant about your paragraph. How will you demonstrate this significance. As you read your paragraphs as a group, you can assign parts, use motions, movements, and volume changes. You must work as a group to construct a reading of your paragraph.

5. Choral Reading
Read your paragraph individually and answer these questions:
Who is the speaker?
What is the purpose?
What is the mood of the writing?
What literary devices are used?

6. Choral Reading
Choral Reading
2. What is the tone of the speaker?

7. Choral Reading
3. Prepare a choral reading (Everyone must be involved) that presents the message of your paragraph. Think about tone and message! Watch the example before begin.
You may read together, have individual parts, or a mixture
You may use gestures and/or movement
You might vary your pace or Rhythm

8. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
As you read the story focus on who is telling the story, what figurative language is being used, and how does the author develop the characters?

9. Tuesday: Wrap up
Meet with your partners pizza partners. Fill out the last part of the KWL chart. What did you learn about India?

10. Wednesday: Warm-up Complete the following task:
Use your Keith sentences as a resource to describe this picture in a paragraph using sentence patterns #4, 10, and 7. You can use these in any order you’d like.

11. Put the parts of a plot in your notes
Put the parts of a plot in your notes. Quick Write: How does one part of a plot affect another?
EXPOSITION: meet the characters; learn about the setting (time & place; where/when); conflict/problem is introduced
RISING ACTION: conflict(s) develop; suspense builds
CLIMAX: turning point; character faces conflict; main character's attitude changes
FALLING ACTION: loose ends are tied up; conflict(s) are being solved
RESOLUTION/DENOUMENT: reasonable ending; conflict is "resolved" (taken care of)

12. Rikki-tikki-tavi: Based on these photos, what do you predict the story will be about. Brain Break: Put your ideas on a post-it and place it on the board.

13. Rikki-tikki-tavi Written by Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard was born in Bombay, India.
He returned to England, at age 5, to receive his education.
India, however , would always be a powerful attraction for Kipling: he lived there again for a while as an adult, and many of his stories take place there.
Kipling wrote The Jungle Book and won a Nobel Prize in Literature.

14. Vocabulary In Context She made a valiant effort to overcome hardship.
She tried to revive the unconscious woman.
He cunningly outsmarted the other contestants.
Do not cower in scary situations.
The dog had a peculiar limping gait.
The fledgling made its first trip outside the nest.
We offered them consolation in their sorrow.
Be careful not to singe the hair on your arms.

15. Page 78
1. After reading page one, who is the main character and what do you already know about him? What perspective is this story being told from.

16. Wednesday Wrap-up
Make a prediction about the conflict of the story? What will the struggle be about and who will be involved?

17. Thursday: Warm-up Complete the following task:
Use your Keith sentences as a resource to describe this picture in a paragraph using sentence patterns #7, 6, and 5 . You can use these in any order you’d like.

18. Thursday: College Readiness Assessment
1. Take a few minute to look over your College Readiness lists.

19. Perspective
Quick Write: Tell the story of The Three Little Pigs from one of the pigs point of view or perspective.

20. How would the story change if it was told from the wolf’s perspective?

21. Quick Write Wrap-up
1. How did the story change? How does point of view/perspective impact the message of a story?

22. Friday: Warm-up Complete the following task:
Use your Keith sentences as a resource to describe this picture in a paragraph using sentence patterns #8, 10, and 7. You can use these in any order you’d like.

23. Point of View (Put in your notes)
1st Person: I, me, we, us A character is telling the story. 2nd Person: you The author or teller of the story is speaking to you as a reader. 3rd Person Limited: he, she, they, them, his, her The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of only one character. 3rd Person Omniscient: he, she, they, them, his, her The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters.

24. Identifying Narrative Perspective/Point of View
Read Crispy Treats, To Kill A Mocking Bird, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
What is the narrative perspective?
How do you know?

25. Page 80
2. Examine these lines, “There are more things to find out about in this house,” he said to himself, “than all my family could find out in all their lives. I shall certainly stay and find out.”
Looking at Rikki’s internal monologue, what does this reveal about his personality?
3. What do Rikki’s actions demonstrate about his character?

26. Page 81
4. Examine this line, “When he had lifted one-third of himself clear off the ground, he stayed balancing to and fro exactly as a dandelion tuft balances in the wind, and he looked at Rikki-tikki with the wicked snake’s eyes that never change their expression, whatever the snake may be thinking of.”
What type of figurative language is used here? Determine its meaning within the context of the sentences.
5. Infer as to why Darzee and his wife hide from Nag.

27. Page 82-middle of 84
6. Using evidence from pages 82 through 84 to defend your answer, are Nag and Nagaina or Karait more dangerous? Use ACE.
7. Describe how the author uses conflict to create suspense in the story.

28. Wrap-up:
Write 3 statements about the setting of the story? How has learning about India impacted your knowledge about the setting of the story?
Write 2 ways the author builds suspense in the story?
Write 1 prediction that you can make about the resolution of the story?