1. Thursday, January 14 th 2016!!! Agenda: 1.Looking at the details. 2.Brainstorm Check 3.Dialogue Scavenger Hunt Assignments: Tomorrow: Plot Diagram Topic: Short Story Elements Level: Analyze; Synthesize

2. On Your Desk: Binder Paper X 2 Short Story Brainstorm Plot Chart

3. Details…Details… It was a mine town, uranium most recently. Dust devils whirled sand off the mountains. Even after the heaviest of rains, water seeped back into the ground, between stones, and the earth was parched again. -Linda Hogan, “Making Do” 1.What feelings do you associate with images of dusty mountains and dry earth? 2.There are two images associated with land in the third sentence. Identify the two images and compare and contrast the feelings these images evoke. 3.Write a sentence describing a rainstorm using imagery that produces a positive response; then write a sentences describing a rainstorm with imagery that produces a negative response.

4. Brainstorming 1.Let’s review the web diagram. Use what works for you; but, I have to some sort of brainstorming evidence! 2. Plot/story diagram. Due tomorrow! Give details – if I see only event leading up to the climax, then it’s incomplete. This is subject (and will probably) change. It’s okay – be cool. Write in pencil, for this reason.

5. Punctuating Dialogue Never make a mistake again

6. Quotation Marks “Fred, I want you to take that new truck back to the dealership,” Mary snarled, “right now!” “No way will you get me to,” Fred paused, “ return that truck.” Only the words spoken are surrounded by quotation marks.

7. Keep commas and periods inside the quotation marks “ I do not know,” yelled Albert. Albert yelled, “I do not know.” Which one is correct? The teacher screamed, “Everyone needs to line up at the door”. The teacher screamed, “Everyone needs to line up at the door.”

8. An uninterrupted speech needs quotation marks only at the beginning and the end. “My mother was right. I never should have married you. You only ever think of yourself and I’m always the one who has to suffer.” “Oh cry me a river.” ” I’m the one who came out on the losing end of this marriage!” “Why didn’t you listen to your mother?” Which one is correct?

9. Start a new paragraph each time the speaker changes. “You can be so cruel some times!” Mary wailed. “Oh I suppose you’ll go crying to your mother now,” Fred sighed. “At least she understands me,” sobbed Mary.

10. When only two people are talking you do not have to keep using their names. “I understand how you feel, alright?” “You do?” “Aw, you know I do.” “And do you care about me?” “Of course I do.” “So you’ll take the truck back?” “Over my dead body!”

11. Quote inside of a quote Use single quotation marks for quotes within quotes. This also includes publications that are set off by quotes. Example: He said, "Danea said, 'Do not treat me that way.'" Example: "Everyone will read the short story entitled ‘The Escape' for tomorrow," said the substitute teacher.

12. Exclamations and Questions An exclamation point or question mark is placed inside the quotation marks when it punctuates the quotation. It is placed outside when it punctuates the main sentence. For example: I almost fell over when he asked, “That won’t be a problem for you, will it?” Did the teacher really say, “finish by tomorrow”?

13. Exclamations and Questions When using exclamations and questions in your dialogue be sure to properly punctuate the words following the marks. If the sentence continues and the following words are not proper nouns then you DO NOT capitalize the next word. For example: “Did you hear Mr. Marcoux?” asked Steve. “Watch out!” warned John. “No homework tonight!” Mrs. Tomao asserted.