Thursday, February 7, 2013

Friday, February 8

Objective: SWBAT find THREE examples of foreshadowing in a story and use those examples to make predictions about what will happen later in the story.

Do-Now: FREE WRITE (Write 5-7 sentences about anything you want)

Today: 1) Editing Exercise:  Re-write the following paragraph correcting all grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors.  Today's paragraph contains TEN errors.


          Born on February 15, 1820, Susan B. Anthony learnt early in life about the value of justice. A teacher four many years, she become active in a movement that encouraged people not to drink liquor. Since Susan was a women, however, she was'nt allowed to speak at that movements rallys. So she found other causes. She traveled the country as a speaker against slavery and for womens rights Did you no that she was once arrested for voting.



2) Foreshadowing: What is foreshadowing?  How can foreshadowing be used to help a reader make predictions?

3) Class will begin reading "The Most Dangerous Game" pp. 5-6.  How do the name of the island and the setting of the story create foreshadowing?  What can we predict using this information?

4) In groups, read "The Most Dangerous Game" pp. 6-8.  STOP at the bottom of pg. 8.  Look for THREE more examples of foreshadowing from the story which have not already been discussed in class.

Exit Slip:  On the LEFT HAND SIDE of your Exit Slip, list the THREE examples of foreshadowing your group found.  On the RIGHT HAND SIDE of your Exit Slip, make a prediction of what may happen later in the story based on each example.  

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