1. Monday 19 August 2019 Bell Work
Red Dot person, please get your group’s folders and hand them out.Green Dot person is in charge of materials today.
Take out one 3x5 flashcard to use during the lesson
In your Composition Book, write down the following quotation and your answer to the prompt about it:
“Failure isn't fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden NCAA National Championship Basketball Coach
What do you think is the true meaning of this quote? How can you apply it to your own life to make an improvement?

2. Lesson 2.1 Unit 1
Pre-AP English 9H

3. What Happened During the Ice Storm
Jim Heynen

4. What Happened During the Ice Storm by Jim Heynen
First Pass.
Cover up the final paragraph with a sticky note.
As we read, the “movie” should be playing in your mind.
A Pheasant

5. Reexamine the opening paragraph and answer the following…
What are the effects of the freezing rain throughout the first paragraph

6. Read/Annotate
Complete a close reading of “What Happened During the Ice Storm.”
Then answer the following in your Composition Book (under the bell work): If you were to turn the title “What Happened During the Ice Storm” into a question, what would your answer be?

7. As I read the rest of the story aloud, observe the telling details that can help you distinguish between the intentions of the farmers and the boys.

8. Continuing in your Composition Book answer the following:
Why did the farmers leave their houses? How do you know? Why did the boys leave their houses? How do you know?
Use specific quotes to demonstrate textual evidence of the farmers’ and the boys’ intentions.

9. With your shoulder partner discuss: How does a sense of danger to the pheasants gradually build as the story unfolds?

10. Next to three things that are dangerous to the pheasants write the following question words:
When?
Where?
Why? (does it feel dangerous)
Explain the three dangerous situations by answering the questions with incomplete sentences.

11. Turn your three dangerous situations into three complex sentences
Turn your three dangerous situations into three complex sentences. Each sentence needs to answer all three of these questions and have the sentence stem: “The danger to the pheasants increases because of _____________________” (Write sentences on page 13.)
When?
Where?
Why?

12. Finish reading last paragraph.
What is the significance of the author saying that the boys were “unsure of their footing”?
The boys show mercy towards the pheasants. Do you find this ending satisfying? Or are you disappointed. Why?

13. Appreciating the Author’s Craft
How would the story’s ending be different if you took out “unsure of their footing” in the final sentence?

14. Sentence Combining
Sentence combining is a method used to compose one longer complex sentence out of the multiple sentences you just wrote using the same stem.
Consider the best order for the sentence combining. For example, if you are following the story’s chronology, following that structure in your complex sentence.
This is another mode of topic sentence writing practice.