1. The House of the Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer
Chapters 3 & 4
3/22/18

2. 3/22/18 Warm-up
Copy the sentence below. Label the subject(s) and verb(s). Is this sentence simple, compound, or complex? How do you know? Be ready to share your answer.
The whiteness hurt his eyes, and so he turned from them with relief to the cool darkness inside.

3. White Poppy Fields (Opium Fields)

4. Largely grown in Asia & Used to make drugs called “opiates” (morphine, heroin)

5. Agenda, 3/22 Warm-up Vocabulary – Allusion It is due Friday, 3/23.
Discuss examples from chapter 2
Read & discuss chapters 3
If you were absent Monday, you were given your grammar make-up work today.
It is due Friday, 3/23.
It will be graded as a classwork grade.***

6. HOTs vocabulary list
1. Allusion

7. Hots Literary Terms
Allusion – a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art; a brief and indirect reference
Examples:
Pedro el Conejo (Peter the Rabbit) in Senor MacGregor’s field, pg. 7
, pg. 14Virgin of Guadalupe
Does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers
A passing comment
The writer expects the reader to possess enough knowledge to spot the allusion and grasp its importance in a text.

8. Journal Notes, Chapter 3, 3/22
Why did Steven’s father react to Matt in the manner that he did? Explain.