Tuesday, February 25

Objective: Students will be able to analyze the situational irony in a story to determine if it’s being used effectively.  Students will be able to identify subjects, verbs, and prepositional phrases in sentences in order to determine how they function together.

Do-Now: Vocabulary Practice Quiz #2

Today: 1) Go over Practice Quiz

2) Subjects and Verbs: Practice #2

3) Note-taking: Theme: the main message of a story (what the author wants the reader to learn by reading the story)

Third-Person Narrator: someone who knows something/everything about the characters in the story, but DOES NOT know their thoughts.


Review: situational irony and conflict (man vs. man, man vs.self, mas vs. nature, man vs. machine)

Conflict can be divided into TWO categories: Internal and External.  Man vs. Self conflicts are INTERNAL, and the rest are all EXTERNAL.

4) In groups, read "The Sniper" pp. 211-215 (Make sure to read the Background on pg. 211)

Exit Slip: Mega Exit Slip Handout

Homework: Vocabulary Quiz #2 TOMORROW!!!