1. Week 6

2. Warm up
I have given you a passage with the vocabulary words highlighted to help you understand
the meaning of you word .. Your warm up is to write the definition of all ten words.

3. Genre
Type of the story

4. A Royal Mystery Play
A play is a story that can be performed for an audience.
As you read, look for:
Text that consists mainly of dialogue.
Characters’ actions and feelings that are shown through dialogue
Stage directions and descriptions of settings.

5. “A Royal Mystery” By Audrey Carangelo
Unit 1: Lesson 2
“A Royal Mystery”
By Audrey Carangelo

6. Unit 1: Lesson 1 Selection: “A Royal Mystery” Target Skill: Theme
Vocabulary Strategy: Prefixes

7. Target Skill Theme –a message about life or people
Pay attention to what the characters say
What happens in the story
Character actions or reactions

8. Relating to her character, Rena is...
Relating to how she acts, Althea is...
Relating to her character, Rena is...
One possible theme for "A Royal Mystery" is...
Rena is different from other girls because...
Relating to how they are similar, Althea and Rena...
Thinking of Althea's and Rena's differences, Althea...

9. Sequence of the Play Why is Misty offended by Althea’s words?
What does Misty reaction to Rena tell you about the kind of person she is?
What have we learned about Rena by the end of this scene? How is she different from the other girls?

10. 4.What do you think has happened between the end of Scene I and the beginning of Scene II?
5.What is the narrator ‘s function in the play? When does he or she speak?

11. 6. Althea keeps trying to find out more about Rena
6.Althea keeps trying to find out more about Rena. What does Rena’s body language tell you about her reaction to Althea’s questions ? What tone does it communicate?
7.How does the phrase “I vow to help you win…” show that Rena and Althea are finding common interests?
8. What book is Althea reading? What do you think she has concluded about Rena?

13. 9.How does the description of the race in Scene VII contradict the expression on Althea’s Face in the illustration?

15. Warm up :
Theme Handout
Vocabulary Startegies
Prefixes non-,un-,dis-,mis-

16. Vocabulary Startegies Prefixes non-,un-,dis-,mis-
Objectives -Learn and use words with the Greek and Latin prefixes non- un- dis- mis- -Use common Greek and Latin affixes as clues to the meanings of words