1. Thursday. September 11, 2014 Good Morning!! Please take out:
a writing utensil
your notebook
And take everything else off of your desks

2. Word Puzzle
TRAIL
LAIRT
TIALR
RTAIL
AILTR
ITLRA
Answer:
Trail Mix

3. Class Objectives Class Objectives: SWBAT- Language Objectives: SWBAT –
Review Literary Terms Part I
Identify literary terms/functions in ‘Thief’ by Robley Wilson Jr.
Read and Annotate ‘Thief’ by Robley Wilson Jr.
Language Objectives: SWBAT –
Apply vocabulary to reading and comprehension of ‘Thief’
Define and identify parts of speech of vocabulary

4. Agenda
Review Literary Terms (Part I)
Thief Vocabulary
Thief

5. Literary Terms Part I Now … Update page 12 in your Table of Contents:
We will go through the correct answers.
Write down the definitions from the board into your notebook.

6. Annotation
The act or process of marking up a text for important information and creating explanatory notes

7. Short Story
A fictional work of prose that is shorter in length than a novel

8. Plot
The structure of action and events throughout a story.

9. Plot Type: Chronological
In the order of time.

10. Plot Type: Flashback
Flashback: a narrative technique that allows a writer to share past events during current events to provide background for the current story

11. In Medias Res: the strategy of beginning a story in the middle of the action.
The reader enters the story on the verge of an important moment that is not the beginning of the story
In Medias Res

12. Exposition
The introduction of setting, situation
and main characters.

13. Rising Action
The action that builds up to the most exciting part of the story.

14. Climax
- The turning point of a narrative or the point of highest tension or drama.
- When the action reaches a peak.

15. Falling Action
- The events that follow the climax and show the effects of the catastrophe

16. Denouement/Resolution
The events after the falling action in which the problem of the story is resolved or worked out.

17. Conflict The struggle between opposing forces
Many conflicts are possible in one story line

18. Conflict: Man vs. Man
When a character has a problem with another character

19. Conflict: Man vs. Himself
When a character has trouble deciding what action to take.
Usually deals with morals and deciding between right and wrong

20. Conflict: Man vs. Society
When a character has a problem with the law, school , accepted behavior or any function of society.

21. Personalize your notebook!!
Homework: Due Friday 9/12
Personalize your notebook!!

22. Title page 13 of your notebook:
“Thief Vocabulary”
Don’t forget to update your table of contents!

23. 1. Cascading Part of Speech: Verb/adjective Definition:
To fall, pour, or rush in as if in a cascade.
The cascading waterfall was majestic.

24. 2. Unattached Part of Speech: ADJECTIVE Definition:
Not assigned or committed to (a particular task or person)
The unattached chain was ineffective protection.

25. 3. Currency Part of Speech: NOUN Definition:
Coins or money that are used in exchange for goods
I have a lot of left over currency from many countries.

26. 4. Deceitful Part of Speech: ADJECTIVE Definition:
Having a tendency to be dishonest
His deceitful ways caused Marsha to leave him because she couldn’t handle his lies.

27. 5. Recognition Part of Speech: NOUN Definition:
The knowledge that something has been perceived before
The recognition in his face told me that he remembered me from last week.

28. 6. Collision Part of Speech: NOUN Definition:
An encounter where energy is transferred
The collision caused a massive explosion.

29. 7. Jostle VERB To come into contact, to push into
Part of Speech:
VERB
Definition:
To come into contact, to push into
I hate it when people jostle me on the train.

30. As we are reading … Please do the following things:
CIRCLE words you do not know
Underline important details
Make notes in margins
Draw brackets around important sections
Write down your responses

31. Thief
by Robley Wilson Jr.

32. Literary Terms Part 2! Notebooks
Update your table of contents and title page 9:
Literary Terms Part 2!

33. Conflict: Man vs. Himself
When a character has trouble deciding what action to take.
Usually deals with morals and deciding between right and wrong

34. Conflict: Man vs. Man
When a character has a problem with another character

35. Conflict: Man vs. Society
When a character has a problem with the law, school, accepted behavior, or any function of society.

36. The act of creating and developing a character.
Characterization
The act of creating and developing a character.

37. Direct Characterization
The author directly states the character’s personality traits.
“Romeo was wrought with pain”.

38. Indirect Characterization
Readers infer personality traits based on comments and actions of the characters around them.
“Romeo could not keep his eyes of Juliet”.
-Romeo Describing Juliet

39. Hyperbole Hyperbole: An exaggeration. Example: I am so hungry, I
could eat four
pizzas.

40. Figurative Language Figurative Language: Words used in an imaginative,
non-literal sense.
Simile and Metaphors
Example:
His words were the
thorns that pierced my heart.

41. A comparison using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’.
Simile
Simile:
A comparison using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’.
Example:
Her eyes are like
the stars-
boundless
and beautiful.

42. Metaphor Metaphor: A direct comparison that does not
use ‘like’ or ‘as’
Example:
His eyes were
daggers that pierced
through my soul.

43. Imagery Words used to create vivid mental images.
These words appeal to the five senses.

44. Mood The atmosphere or the feeling created
in the reader by a literary work
setting
objects
details
images
words

45. Tone Writers attitude toward his or
her subject, characters or audience
Example:
The poor boy’s responsibilities at home were so great that he did not have enough time to have any fun.

46. Point of View
Perspective or vantage point
from which a story is told

47. First Person Point of View
The Narrator is a character in the story and uses the first-person pronoun I.
The story is told through the perspective of the narrator.

48. Third Person Omniscient
The narrator knows all and tells what each character feels and thinks.
‘Omni-’ is a prefix that means all.

49. Third Person Limited
Narrator relates the inner thoughts and feelings of only one character.
Everything is viewed from this character’s perspective

50. HOMEWORK Due Friday 9/13
DECORATE the third blank page of your notebook (before the table of contents).
Please have it reflect your:
personality
passions
desires
wants
needs
and hobbies!
Use magazines, draw pictures, write down lyrics, and/or glue in pictures!