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TIMELINE OF YOUR LIFE ON WHITE BOARD

Imagine someone handing you a small paper bag and asking you to explain your life story by filling the bag with only five pictures/artifacts

What would be in your bag?List the five items on a piece of

paper

mem·oir (noun) a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources.

Think about a birthday you remember vividly. Write a paragraph description of that birthday (four-five sentences). What did you do on your birthday? How did you feel on your birthday? Who was there to celebrate your birthday?

JOURNAL ENTRY

What does growing up mean to you? What signifies growing up? When do you feel most grown up?

THINK-PAIR-SHARE

Literary TermsREADING

CHARACTER CHARACTER

• CHARACTER: A person or animal in a story.

STATIC

• STATIC CHARACTER: A character who doesn’t change much during a story.

DYNAMIC

• DYNAMIC CHARACTER: A character who changes as a result of the story’s events.

An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself.

SYMBOL

SkeletonSnakeButterflyBlack CatRainFireSunshineWildernessRedWhite

SYMBOL

• Central message in a work of literature

• Not just a topic, but what the author wants you to take away from the work (not always, but often a lesson).

• Romeo & Juliet—Shallow, Superficial Love Based on Appearance OR Hate Breeds Hate and/or Misery.

• Despicable Me—The Love of A Family Can Overcome Pain & Hurt

THEME

Plot Mountain

Exposition

Conflict

Rising Action

Climax

Falling

Action

Resolution

EXPOSITIONExposition – introductory information about characters, places, and/or events

Excerpt from Olive’s Ocean

Olive Barstow was dead. She’d been hit by a car on Monroe Street while riding her bicycle. Weeks ago. That was about all Martha knew.

CLIMAX The turning point in a story

Tragedy – the protagonist is

worse off at the end of the story

than in the beginning

Comedy – the protagonist is in a better situation

at the end of the story than in the

beginning

Comedy and tragedy

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CONFLICT Conflict – a struggle between opposing forces (characters, environment, self); this is also referred to as the narrative hook.

Internal Conflict

Internal conflict – struggle within a character’s mind.

EXTERNAL CONFLICTExternal conflict – struggle between two characters or a character and his environment.

IMAGERYSensory language

Way in which story or narrative is told. Can be:

• First Person Point of View: This is very simple. "I went to the store. Afterward, I drove home." You're writing through the eyes of ONE person, and one person only. Nobody else gets to play.

• Third Person (Limited) Point of View: This is the most common form of story. You get to see the thoughts/feelings of only 1 character, not ALL of them. “Robert felt depressed and unhappy after his breakup with Helen. Despondent, he reached for a 5 gallon bucket of GIANT Vanilla Marble Ice Cream.”

• Third Person (Omniscient) Point of View: In Third Omniscient, you‘re ALL-KNOWING! You're telling an overview of the story through mechanisms that aren't available in Third Limited. You know how ALL of the characters think and feel!

1st person

• I did. I think. I feel. I will….

THIRD PERSON LIMITED

Ms. Sharbaugh and her students were having a great day learning about literary terms. Ms. Sharbaugh was thinking about how awesome her students are. She was also thinking about how excited she was to start reading stories and novels as a class!

THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT

Ms. Sharbaugh was thinking about how much she loved English class while her student, Matilda, was thinking about how much she dislikes English class!

Read Sandra Cisneros “Eleven” on page 149 of the Yellow Literature Textbook

Time to Read

Writing Workshop