1. I can edit sentences for mistakes in mechanics and usage. I can demonstrate comprehension of increasingly challenging texts by answering literal and interpretive questions. I can make inferences about a character based on the explicit text. I can analyze the ways in which the devices the author chooses achieve specific effects and shape meaning in increasingly challenging texts. I can analyze character motivation in a text.

2. I was watching 60 Minutes and saw a tape of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his famous speech that began with these words “I have a dream.” One of the greatest baseball players of the 1880s and 1890s was left handed Billy Sunday a native of Ames Iowa who was discovered by the famous player manager Cap Anson of the Chicago White Stockings. The office manager gave us a list of needed supplies paper clips rubber bands and staples.  Use a colon to introduce a list (Nutshell rule/examples) 1. Formal quotations when typical introducers such as said or replies are not used 2. A list that follows an independent clause (Nutshell rule) Example: The poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning began: “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

3. I was watching 60 Minutes and saw a tape of Martin Luther King, Jr., giving his famous speech that began with these words: “I have a dream.” One of the greatest baseball players of the 1880s and 1890s was left-handed Billy Sunday, a native of Ames, Iowa, who was discovered by the famous player-manager Cap Anson of the Chicago White Stockings. The office manager gave us a list of needed supplies: paper clips, rubber bands, and staples.

4.  Pay attention to  character motivation  relationships between characters  ironies  Situational irony?  Verbal irony?  Dramatic irony?  possible themes