1. Hint: Look for sentences lacking a subject or verb.
Read the excerpt below. Identify the sentence fragments from this particular paragraph. Write them on your paper.
Walker uses sentence fragments such as “Ten, twelve years?” and “And Dee. to create an informal tone.
Hint: Look for sentences lacking a subject or verb.

2. Today is important… don’t waste the opportunities before you!
Station 1: Correct and rewrite memoir and participate in a Peer Edit
Station 2: Independent Activity - Students will access MobyMax to complete a lesson.
Station 3: Teacher led, Direct Instruction on how to write a literary analysis

3. What do prepositional phrases do for your writing?
“She never takes a shot without making sure the house is included. When a cow comes nibbling around the edge of the yard she snaps it and me and Maggie and the house. Then she puts the Polaroid in the backseat of the car, and comes up and kisses me on the forehead.”
Read this excerpt from “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker.
Identify the prepositional phrases that you see in this short reading.

4. Today is important… don’t waste the opportunities before you!
Station 1: Correct and rewrite memoir and participate in a Peer Edit
Station 2: Independent Activity - Students will access MobyMax to complete a lesson.
Station 3: Teacher led, Direct Instruction on how to write a literary analysis

5. Consider This: How does this form of art connect to the reading we’ve done thus far?

6. Figurative Language.. Listen to the song…
What definitions do you already know? Which words do you not understand?

7. Summarizer
Connection back to the Art In a brief paragraph, compare and contrast the story with the art of Romare Bearden.

8. Journal Time: Think about the objects in your home.
Which objects have been passed down from other family members?
Why do they continue to have a place in your home? If you were to move away to live on your own, which objects in your home would you want to take with you?
Explain why for each object selected.
How would your parent/guardian feel about you taking each item? Explain your response.

9. Activator
Create a box on your paper that is as wide as the margins and about 10 lines down the page. In this box you are going to make a Word Splash. Include every word you can think of that represents the story. You can put names of people, names of places, figurative language, southern literature examples, etc. Fill up your box.

10. Literary Analysis… Some helpful hints
Body Paragraph 1 -Mama (individual) -Maggie (compare) -Dee (compare) Body Paragraph 2 -Is the conflict internal or external? -Who is conflict between? -What is the center of the conflict? Body Paragraph 3 -Quilts -Names (Dee)

11. Your Task!
Look at the model essay given to you. Notice all of the textual evidence in the story to help answer the prompt. Begin writing your essay.

12. In conclusion
Provide 5 characteristics of Southern Literature as identified in the reading of “Everyday Use.”
Remember… the chart on the board and your anticipation guide lists the specific characteristics we’ve discussed so far. 