1. Language Arts - The House of the Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer
Chapters 12 & 13
4/11/18

2. Warm-up #1, 4/11

3. Warm-up #2, 4/11

4. Vocabulary
Redundancy: Using a phrase or word that repeats something else and is unnecessary. Writers should be concise and precise, and avoid redundancy.
Personification: when a writer describes an object as if it were a person. Provide your own example.
Ex. The trees sighed in the afternoon breeze. (Trees cannot really sigh, but seemed to as they blew gently in the breeze.)

5. Agenda, 4/11 Learning Target: Analyzing characters
Recognizing misplaced modifiers
Warm-up – grammar
HOTS
Discuss and add to our character charts in our journals
Ticket Out the Door (paragraph writing, collected for a grade)

6. Choices and Consequences
The two essential questions of our current unit of study:
What is the relationship between choices and consequences?
What makes a good leader?
One major summative assessment for this unit will be a literary analysis essay.

7. Exit Ticket, 4/11 (Write on Notebook paper to turn in at the end of class)
Choose Maria, Celia, Tam Lin, or El Patron, and consider the information we have discussed and written in our character charts.
Write a short paragraph listing two major choices that character has made and the consequences those choices have had on Matt.
You will need to include specific examples from the novel and include at least one quote from the text to support your writing.
When finished, complete next two pages in grammar packet.

9. This is the real oasis that inspired Nancy Farmer to write about the oasis that Tam Lin shows Matt in the novel. It is the Quitobaquito Oasis in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona:

10. This is an artist’s rendering of the Ajo Mountains.

11. Tam Lin Factual / Background Info. Inferred Character Traits (STEAL)
Text Evidence of Choices Made (include page #’s)
Consequences and Possible Impact on Matt

12. Matt Factual / Background Info. Inferred Character Traits (STEAL)
Text Evidence of Choices Made (include page #’s)
Consequences and Possible Impact on Matt

13. Celia Factual / Background Info. Cook at the Big House
Matt’s care taker (not real mother)
Hispanic
Catholic
Big woman
Inferred Character Traits
(STEAL)
Protective/cautious
Kind
Motherly
Stern
crafty
Text Evidence of Choices Made (include page #’s)
“I’ll explain things to you when you’re older.” – Celia didn’t tell Matt he was a clone
Consequences and Possible Impact on Matt
Matt chose to interact with the kids. He was totally unprepared for how he would be treated.

14. Maria Factual / Background Info. Senator’s daughter Matt’s age & size
Visits Alacran estate on school vacations & weekends
Inferred Character Traits
(STEAL)
Kind
Bold/brave – willing to befriend a clone
Gulliable/ Tom tricks her all the time
Forgiving
Text Evidence of Choices Made (include page #’s)
Took food to Matt (chap. 4)
Stayed with Matt because she was scared
Consequences and Possible Impact on Matt
Got food
Only friend for Matt

15. El Patron Factual / Background Info. 140 yrs old From Mexico
Has a clone
Inferred Character Traits
(STEAL)
Treats Matt well
Power & money
Text Evidence of Choices Made (include page #’s)
Gave Matt a body guard
Got rid of Rosa
Consequences and Possible Impact on Matt
Got to be with Celia again and is now well taken care of