1. Pre-Reading Activity: Choose any of the following writing prompts to answer on your own paper.
Who can you always count on? Why?
Have you ever been let down by someone that you felt you could count on? How did it make you feel?
Name some different examples of chains.
How is a break in the link of these chains a positive or negative thing?

2. This Week’s Instagram Challenge:
#languageLee
#LightThePath
#BCMSTORCH
This Week’s Instagram Challenge:
#journey
Locate a song that relates to your picture and the topic of this week’s challenge.
List the lyrics of the song.
Write 1 paragraph that tells why you chose this song.
Define JOURNEY
in your own words.
Respond in a complete
sentence.
Part 1:
The Picture
Part 2:
The Definition
Part 3:
The Writing

3. What’s the purpose of today’s lesson?
Take three minutes and scan the beginning and end of the short story focusing on who the characters are and what might be happening.
Draw conclusions—use what you learn from your reading to make general statements about people, places, events, or ideas.
Respond—explore how the people or events in a reading selection make you feel!
Synthesize—as you read bring together information and ideas from the text with information and ideas of your own.
Determine the main idea—what’s the most important detail? Why?

4. Don’t forget the key elements
Conflict— internal vs. external—the biggest struggle in a story
Dialogue— conversation between characters
Character—a person in a story
Plot—a series of related events in which a problem is explored then solved.
Don’t forget plot structure
Conflict—what the plot revolves around
Exposition—introduces setting, characters, conflict
Rising Action—events that cause or add to the problem
Climax—the high point of story—protagonist has to make a choice
Falling Action—events that result from the decision
Resolution—end result of the decision
Don’t forget the key elements
of a short story!