11. Deep Survival By Laurence Gonzales

12. 12 ways to keep you alive Perceive, believeStay calmThink/Analyze/plan Take correct, decisive action Celebrate your successes Count your blessings PlaySee the beauty Believe that you will succeed Surrender Do whatever is necessary Never give up

13. The Bass, the River, and the Sheila mant Short story by W.DWetherell

14. Setting Summer New England Town River Narrator: 14 yrs. old at the story’s beginning, loved fishing for largemouth bass, has a crush on Sheila Mant, spends his time trying to get up enough courage to ask Sheila for a date Sheila Mant: 17 yrs. old, family is renting the cottage next to his family’s, doesn’t know the narrator exists, talks constantly of older college boys, upper class

15. Plot

16. EXPOSITION –Describes the setting and narrator’s obsession with Sheila (Introduces the internal conflict) –Describes Sheila and her suitors –Asks Sheila to a dance –Takes his canoe and fishing rod RISING ACTION Narrator desperately tries to conceal the rod with the big bass as Sheila chatters away, having absolutely no idea what is going on

17. CLIMAX The narrator cuts the line FALLING ACTION Sheila rides home with a college boy Resolution Older, reflective narrator says it was a hard choice and a mistake he has never repeated.

18. CONFLICT Internal –Narrator struggles with his courage to ask Sheila to the dance –He struggles between his desire to catch the bass and his desire for Sheila External –Narrator’s physical struggle with the bass –Narrator’s verbal struggle to keep Sheila ignorant of the bass

19. What if everyone were the same?

20. Harrison Bergeron By Kurt Vonnegut JR.

21. AVERAGE

22. CHARACTER Harrison Bergeron George Bergeron Hazel Bergeron Diana Moon Glampers

23. CONFLICT HARRISON V.S U.S SOCIETY

25. What makes something valuable? What do we take for granted? 1. Everyday Use 2. Searching for Summer

26. 1. Everyday Use What makes something Valuable?  an old watch from your father may be precious to you, but to others, it may be considered as junk This “value” is mentioned because in the story, there are conflicts between the mother and two daughters depending on what kind of values they have. Pages 44~59

27. In the story… Characters: Mom(narrorator), Dee(Wangero), Maggie Setting: Burnt house, moved to a new house, Dee comes home with a man named Hakim-a-barber Main conflict: Dee takes things she likes from the house and when she asks for quilts from grandma, mother refuses b/c she promised to give them to Maggie. Seeing this fight, Maggie says that Dee could have it. She always gives in to her sister. But! Mom takes the quilts and throws them into Maggie’s laps and Dee just goes out furiously. Resolution: Mom and Maggie smile and spend the rest of the time just enjoying.

28. Reading for information Alice Walker on Quilting

29. 2. Searching For Summer What do you take for granted?  Air, Water This is mentioned b/c in the story, it is a world where there is almost no sunlight. This means that we are taking the sunlight for granted. But since sunlight is so scarce, it is very important for these people Pages 60~73

30. In the story… Characters: Lily, Tom, their relatives, Mr. Noakes, Mrs. Hatching, William(blind son) Setting/Background: a world where sunlight is very scarce, Lily and Tom get married and they leave for a honeymoon and look for sunlight. Plot: On their way, their scooter goes wrong, so they stop. They meet Mr. Noakes, who is the owner of the pub. He makes fun of them because they said they were looking for sun. Lily finds out that an old lady left her bag, and they decide to return it to her. ~~ Resolution: Tom and Lily decides to leave Mrs. Hatching’s cottage safe and unknown, and they leave from that town.

31. THE END.

33. The Johnstown Flood Charaters: Gertrude, James Quinn, Aunt Abbie, Libby Hipp, Maxwell McArchren, and the children. Setting: Johnstown, 1889 Mood: Urgent → imminent → despair →relieved → disappointed

34. The Johnstown Flood Plot -The Quinn family starts to run for their lives after seeing the wave coming. -Aunt Abbie and Libby Hipp went back into the house because Gertrude did not wanted to put her feet in dirty water. -The three ladies waited in the highest floor of the house praying for god to save them. -The big house get swallowed by the wave and only Gertrude gets out of the house. -Trembling from the fear, she met a group of people dangling on the long roof, but only one man jumped to save her and reached her while the rest of the people met a whirlpool. -They met a rescue team, and Gertrude’s companion threw her to them. -A lot of people came to see her, but no one was her family, so she was sent to live with the Metz family.

35. Nine-year –old Amber Colvin Rides Out a Killer Flood in Ohio

36. The race to save Apollo 13 Characters: Setting: April of 1970, in the space Mood: imminent, anxious

37. The race to save Apollo 13 Setting: -After the astronauts go out in the space, they face a technical problem and decide to cancel the land on the Moon -Electricity, Oxygen, Water, and heat almost runs out, so the the spaceship combines with the lunar module-life raft. -The Apollo 13 rotates to start off to the way back to the earth, and the rocket burns out the back side of the moon. -They made a successful failure.