1. Monday 4/20 A-day Tuesday 4/21 B-day
Warm Up
Vocab
Short Story
Short Story Organizer

2. Warm Up
To prepare for our formative please complete the sentences for the last 5 words Try and relate your sentences back to what you did this past weekend Review the definitions when you are finished

3. Formative Please put your name on the formative
Make sure to READ THE DIRECTIONS
When finished please place it in the tray and respond to the following prompt:
Think about the characters, conflict, and resolution of your favorite book, or last book club book.
What was the theme of the book?
How do you know? Provide evidence.

4. Theme The universal message about life Written in a sentence
Last class we discussed theme
What is theme?
The universal message about life
Written in a sentence
How do we find theme?
Characters
Conflict
Resolution

5. Short Story
Each table will be assigned a short story from the textbook
Please take your time reading the short story
When you are finished you will be completing an outline

6. Short Stories
The Cat Who Thought She Was a Dog and the Dog Who Thought He Was a Cat Page 5 The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter Page 172 Ribbons Page 524 The Treasure of Lemon Brown Page 532

7. In your journal please outline the following elements of your story
Story Title and Author:____________
Characters
Setting
Conflict
Climax
Resolution
Theme

8. Thesis, Evidence, and Commentary
Thesis is the claim you are making, in this case it will be about the theme of the story
Evidence is something from the text that supports the thesis, in this case evidence to support the theme that you have identified
Commentary is your explanation of how the evidence supports the assertion, this explains the quotes and text references that you are using to support your theme