1. Bell Ringer 12/11
Please get out your Death of a Salesman study guides so that we can go over the pages on Irony and Foils.
Please make sure you have all sections completed before we begin.
Pd. 1, 2, 4, 7, & 9

2. Bell Ringer 12/11
Please get out your Death of a Salesman open-ended response and your Death of a Salesman study guide.
Please mark the following with the appropriate number in your open-ended response:
1 – Topic Sentence that Answers the Question
2 – Examples of Flashbacks that Support Your Topic Sentence (Direct Quotes)
3 – Explanation of How Each Quote Supports the Main Idea
Pd. 3

3. English III
EQ: How do Arthur Miller’s choices about structure (particularly Willy’s day dreams of the past) influence how we interpret DoaS as a tragedy?
Agenda
Bell Ringer/Discussion
Agenda/EQ
Death of a Salesman Open-Ended Response
Marking before submitting
DoaS Review
Tragedy Questions
The American Dream
Irony
Foils
Symbols
Themes

4. Bell Ringer 12/11 Please get out your Dialogue Prompt from yesterday.
Read through it and fix any errors that you find.

5. Creative Writing
How do authors use narrative techniques to convey a vivid picture of experiences, events, settings, and characters?
Agenda
Bell Ringer/Discussion
Agenda/EQ
Dialogue Prompt
Formatting Dialogue Rules
Sharing Prompts

6. Dialogue Prompt
Using the same situation/characters as our last prompt (Show vs. Tell), create a conversation between two characters.
Follow the guidelines of good dialogue
Don’t weigh it down with exposition
Use it to build towards something
Make it sound like a real conversation (without the boring parts)
Use it to reveal personality
Don’t overuse exclamation
Keep dialogue tags simple
Make your conversations surprising
Try your best to observe the rules you already know for punctuation and spacing.
We will be discussing these ideas tomorrow (so have your conversations ready)
Keep it between 1 page and 1 page front and back

7. Formatting Dialogue Rules
Read rules together
Complete the exercise on the back of the rules
Read through your own writing
Fix errors on original draft
Re-write with correct spacing and punctuation
Re-read to catch any remaining errors

8. Dialogue Check Was it weighed down with exposition?
Did it build towards something?
Did it sound like a real conversation (without the boring parts)?
Did it reveal personality?
Did it overuse exclamation?
Did it use simple dialogue tags, gesture, and action?
Was the conversation surprising?