1. Journal Entry – Free Write 8/25  It is your first journal entry of the year (YAY!! I feel your excitement) and I am deciding to let you write on anything that you would like.  It must be at least a half a page long and proper grammar to receive full credit.

2. Short Stories: Plot and Setting

3. Plot: What’s Happening?  Plot: a series of events that are occurring in a story  Occur in books, movies, TV shows, etc.4  Plot can be mapped in Freytag’s Pyramid

4. Parts of Freytag’s Pyramid  Exposition : part of the story in which the basic situation is outlined and the characters and main conflict are introduced; basically the introduction to the story.  Rising Action : chain of events that takes place as the main character struggles to achieve his or her goal  Climax : the point of highest emotional intensity; sometimes the point at which we learn the outcome of the conflict.  Falling Action : series of events in which the conflict is starting to get solved  Denouement/Resolution : events following the climax and falling action in which any remaining issues are resolved.

5. Conflict  Struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces or emotions  2 Basic Types of Conflict  Internal : created when the main character undergoes an emotional struggle. It is within the character’s own mind and heart.  Character vs. Self  External : created when a person or outside force prevents the main character from achieving his or her goal.  Character vs. Character (Ex: Harry Potter vs. Voldemort)  Character vs. Nature (Ex: A mountain climber vs. a blizzard)  Character vs. Society (Hunger Games Katniss vs. the Capitol)

6.  Sometimes a story’s action is interrupted in order to tell of events that took place in the past.  Flashback : any scene that presents events that happen before the main time frame of a story.  Use: story tellers provide us with background about the main events of a story or share a character’s past.  Do you have an example? Flashback

7. Foreshadowing & Suspense  Foreshadowing is the use of clue to predict on what is or may happen in a story  Suspense is the feeling of uncertainty or anxiety about what is going to happen next

8. Setting & Mood  The time period and place in which the action of a story takes place.  Setting can also be determined by mood  Mood is the atmosphere a writer creates that affects the way we feel as readers.

9. Exit Journal 8/25  Tell me five things you learned about short stories today and how they affect/enhance a story.

10. Prediction - 5 points 8/26  The title of the short story we are going to read is “Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket.”  Give me a prediction of what this story may be about.  You can write at least 3 sentences

11. Vocabulary – “Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket “  Projection : n. something that juts out from the surface  Discarding: v. used as an adj. abandoning; getting rid of  Confirmation: n. proof  Exhalation: n. something breathed out; breath  Imperceptibly : adv. In such a slight way as to be most unnoticeable  Rebounded: v. bounced back  Interminable: adj. endless  Irrelevantly: adv. In a way not relating to the point or situation  Incomprehensible: adj. not understandable  Unimpeded: adj. not blocked; unobstructed

12. What Have we Seen? 10 points 8/26  Tell me the parts of Freytag’s Pyramid we have seen in the story so far. Give me a summary of the parts that correlate to Freytag’s Pyramid.

13. What is Important to you? 5 points 8/27  In “CoaDMP”, we have met our protagonist, Tom, as he is trying to save his yellow paper from falling from the ledge. What is something you hold as a prized possession and would do anything to save? A family heirloom? A specific picture? Your childhood teddy bear?  Describe what this item may be and why it is so important to you.

14. Vocab Development – 5 points 8/27  Complete the following Vocabulary Square for 4 of the vocabulary words we learned yesterday. Try picking ones you do not completely understand! Vocabulary Word Write definition in this square Write a synonym Write an antonym Write a sentence using the vocabulary word correctly