What's Due Monday and Tuesday: May 14/15

1. Students, your Florida Focus Achieve second assessments are due Monday/Tuesday (AB/Day)
2. Fictional Story is due for final Peer & Teacher Review - Monday/Tuesday (AB/Day)

For the Fictional Story, ensure you bring your
Completed Typed story (25 points)  4-8 pages w/ 
Title page
highlighted figurative language an descriptive language
examples of irony highlighted
text features
 footnotes
illustrations
Overview Sheet (25 points)

Please refer to previous blog entries for details. 

Now, below I have inserted a template of your Overview Sheet.  You may copy, paste, and use or create your own.

If you have ANY QUESTIONS, email me and I will reply by early Sunday morning. knightonm1@duvalschools.org

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Student Name: ______________ Class Period _______ Name of Story ___________ 

Overview Sheet Will Address the Following:

Brief description (2-3 sentences) for each

1.     Exposition

2.     Rising Action

3.     Major Conflict

4.     Climax

5.     Falling Action

6.     Resolution

Brief description (2-3 sentences) of the Characters –complete all that apply

7.     Character 1:

8.     Character 2:

9.     Character 3:

10.  Character 4

11.  Theme Statement

12.  Author Online (3-5 sentences)

13.  Story Background section (ref. Textbook for examples)

14.  Reflection Paragraph  

15.  Author’s Purpose Statement (1 sentence explaining your purpose for writing this fictional piece.)

Guidelines

(The items with a check mark symbol are MUST-HAVES.)

(The items with a diamond symbol are your choice to choose where you want to implement.)

 

Exposition:

  

ü       Engaging scene/setting (descriptive details and sensory details about place/time, etc. )

ü       Background information gives information about the characters – what are their traits, likes, dislikes, emotional status, what they want….

ü       Characters – not all of the characters will be introduced here - whomever is relevant to the details as they are presented

ü       Show how events are relevant to each other

v      Foreshadowing might be good here

Rising Action:

ü       Show how the itty-bitty events/situations provide a build-up to the MAIN conflict

ü       Show cause and effect relationships

ü       Show action

ü       Show internal conflict

ü       Show Tone

ü       Some use of Literary Devices  here would be a good idea

ü       Be sure the characters react to the Main conflict that can be interpreted literally or inferentially

Climax:

ü       Create Suspense

ü       Use of TONE is necessary

ü       Don’t solve the main conflict here

ü       Thru dialogue and character’s reactions, show how the characters are dealing with the process of solving conflict.

ü       Don’t make the unfolding of the events too predictable

v      Foreshadowing might be good here

Falling Action:

ü       Begin the process to resolve the conflict

ü       Show how characters are dealing with the up-coming resolve

ü       Provide keen insight into characters' feelings

ü       Perhaps, show the main character (or supporting character) ready to make a change - evolve

v      Great idea for Irony here

Resolution:

Make sure your style for the resolution is supported by the text. Remember, you have choices

• Will the reader have to predict the ending as in “The Lady or the Tiger”?
• Will the ending have a twist to it as in “Ransom of Red chief” or “Tell, Tale Heart”?
• Will the ending have a predictable resolution as in “The Scholarship Jacket”?

ü       Wrap up loose ends.

ü       Answer some questions or bring closure to loose ends mentioned in the Exposition or Rising Action

ü       Provide dialogue or narrator's comments to show the importance of info given in the Exposition

ü       Make sure the reader feels satisfied, surprised, or wanting more!

ü      Note: In addition to Irony, ensure other types of Figurative Language is woven in the story. 

Fictional Book Assignment                                DUE DATE 5/17 & 18/ 2012

Total Points = 100

Students will write and publish a fictional book for their end-of-the-year project.

The project is designed to give students the opportunity to sit in the writer’s chair and experience the planning and forethought of writing with the reader in mind.

Here are the requirements:

1. Students will produce a Overview Sheet (WILL UPLOAD TEMPLATE) (50 POINTS)
2. Minimum 4-page typed story (50 POINTS)

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Overview Sheet Will Address the Following:

I) To include a brief description (2-3 sentences) for each of the Plot Elements

Ø      Exposition

Ø      Rising Action Major Conflict

Ø      Climax

Ø      Falling Action

Ø      Resolution

2) To include a brief description (2-3 sentences) of the Characters

3) To include a Theme Statement (1 sentence)

4) To include Author Online (ref. Textbook for examples).  Include a brief description (3-5 sentences)  Details should be important and relevant to how the author began writing

Ø      Make mention of relevant details that make connections to the story

Ø      Make mention of the author’s literary device/character development preferences as they are relevant to the story

5) To include the Story Background section (ref. Textbook for examples) - a brief description (3-5 sentences) of the specific details important to understanding the story

6) To include a 5-7 sentence reflection about how you realize the reader and the writer are ONE.

7) To include an Author’s Purpose Statement (1 sentence explaining your purpose for writing this fictional piece.

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Layout

• 1 margins (top/bottom & left/right) This is a recent change from 1 1/2
• 8 ½ by 11
• Size 12 font
• Ariel, Calibri, or Time New Roman font *Comic if compliments story
• Double Spaced
• Typed pages – minimum of 4 pages, maximum 8
• Title page, prologue page (which is optional), and separate illustration pages are NOT included in the 4-8 pages count.

Cover Page

·        Title (must have)

·        Illustration (optional)

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Checklist

Literary Devices

• Use of Figurative language (highlight them)
• Use of Descriptive and Sensory Details
• *show 2 examples of irony (highlight them)
• *Use of foreshadowing is optional – try it (highlight them)

Text Features

• At least two (2) examples of text features per page
• At least  2 footnotes for the story

Illustrations

• At least 2 for the story
• *If illustration(s) take more than 1/3 of the page, then that page is not counted as a full page.

Conflict

• Along with an external conflict, show the character(s) experiencing inner conflict as well.

Ending

• Will the reader have to predict the ending as in “The Lady or the Tiger”?
• Will the ending have a twist to it as in “Ransom of Red chief” or “Tell, Tale Heart”?
• Will the ending have a predictable resolution as in “The Scholarship Jacket”?

Homework – Due Tues. 4/24/12 and Wed. 4/25/12

Homework – Due Tues. 4/24/12 and Wed. 4/25/12

1.) Focus Achieve – all work must be completed, including your tables that you created (showing which questions were missed, why, including a reflection) – worth 110 points.

2.) Lady or the Tiger Project
Review “The Lady or the Tiger”

I Illustration:
Create the scene that illustrates which comes from behind the unknown door: The lady or the tiger. Be sure your illustration resembles a reference to the architecture in that time period. No stick people!

RUBRIC for Illustration• 5 points – Colorful
• 20 points – Visuals are accurate according to the text.
• Total of 25 points for your illustration.

II Written Explanation:
Your 2-paragraph explanation Must address the following:

• What door does the princess’s lover open?

• Defend your prediction with textual evidence (w/ at least 3 text references).

RUBRIC for Explanation
• Your explanation must include two TYPED paragraphs ( close to ½ page – in length)

• 10 points – Introduction: include important writing elements (engaging beginning, background knowledge, transitional signals, and implied thesis statement).

• 15 points – 2nd paragraph explains who comes out of the door. Include FRIESS and cite examples from the text.

• Total of 25 points for your Explanation.

Please attach or incorporate Explanation to/in illustration. This assignment will NOT be accepted late.

4-Day Weekend: NO HOMEWORK - enjoy and relax

Hi Students,

We are here. We are finally in the 4th Nine Weeks of learning. I am excited and I know you are.

I am especially excited because we are in our final week before FCAT. I am so proud of every student, and I can’t wait until you have your chance to apply your reading comprehension strategies and skills on this year’s FCAT 2.0.

Since there is NO Homework during this 4-day weekend, have fun and relax.
Next week, we will be using "Focus--Florida Achieves" interactive reading comprehension website to fine-tune and sharpen our reading comprehension skills. Beginning Monday you will have activities for homework each night. I will give you more details next week.

If you want to take a sneak peak at "Focus--Florida Achieves" SEE THE LINK LOCATED TO THE RIGHT or log on to

http://focus.florida-achieves.com/(S(1msvns45atdc2ib1rn3b1v45))/login.aspx

*Type in your FCAT Explorer I.D. and Password.


Enjoy your time off and I'll see you next week!

Journal Entries and Book Logs are Due:

Hi Students,

Please bring in your Journal Entries and Book Logs next week. These assignments will be reflected in the 3rd nine weeks grading.

Journal Entries - 40 points (see previous entry for specific entry dates)
5 Books Read - 50 points

B Day - Tuesday, April 3
A Day - Wednesday, April 4

Students, I am so proud of you. You are learning and it shows.

Reading Journals for 3rd Nine Weeks Reflect the Dates:

Reading Journals for 3rd Nine Weeks Reflect the Dates:

Jan. 25 -26
Jan. 30-Feb. 2
Feb. 6 – Feb. 9
Feb. 13-16
March 5 - March 8
March 12 – March 15
March 26 – March 29
April 2 – April 4

Total Points 40/40:
*If there are more than four entries missing, the score becomes 20/40.
*If there are more than 1 week worth of entries missing, grade will reflect a 0/40.
*Students who met the No Journal entries requirement DO NOT HAVE to complete journal entries for March 26 - April 4.

Expectations…
Monday: Inference
1) Write a summary of what you read.
2) Then, discuss the author’s use of key words, figurative language, and chain of events to show what and how the inferences were made.

Tuesday: Tone
1) Write a summary of what you read.
2) Identify and discuss the strategies the author uses to create the tone.

Wednesday: Vocabulary and Cause and Effect Relationships of Events
1) Provide a summary of the text and then discuss how the unfamiliar vocabulary word (s) was used in the context.
2) Try to figure out its meaning and then verify by looking the word up. Share your results in the summary.
3) Discuss the Cause and Effect relations – both literal and implied.

Thursday: Character Analysis
1) Write a summary of what you read.
2) Discuss what you think of the main/minor character(s) in the text.
3) Identify at least two adjectives to accurately describe the character as portrayed in the reading.

NOTEL For Informational Text for Thursday is Main Idea or choose Inference, Tone, Vocabulary and Cause and Effect.