Read the following excerpt and identify at least one cause-effect relationship present.

1. Read the following excerpt and identify at least one cause-effect relationship present. Formaldehyde is used to make many household products, such as paneling and particle board, and can escape from these as a colorless gas. This gas is the most common indoor pollutant. In a recent experiment, a spider plant was placed in a chamber filled with formaldehyde gas. Levels of the gas were reduced by more than ninety percent in one day, proving that plants can be an extremely effective air purifier.

2. Agenda • Cause/Effect Identification practice • Cause/Effect writing prompt discussion • Symbolism in a narrative presentation and practice • Small-group discussion and practice • Whole-class text discussion and check journals (time allotted) • Student on the Spot Interview (time allotted) • Grammar focus closure

3. Writing Prompt- Changing the Story Choose TWO of the conflicts that we have discussed from our text. Using your first conflict from the text as an effect, reinvent the cause for this event. Brainstorm, create, and write a paragraph changing the events leading up to that conflict. Using your second conflict from the text as a cause, reinvent the effects of this event. Brainstorm, create, and write a paragraph changing the events following this conflict.

4. In the context of narrative, what is symbolism? • A symbol is any literal object, action, place, person, or idea that has figurative meaning so that it represents some important abstract idea below the surface. Interpret this definition • In other words, something physical in the story that stands for more than what it simply is.

5. The American flag is literally fabric and dye. But it represents our freedom, history, and spirit.

6. A heart is literally an organ that pumps blood. But it represents love.

7. Symbolism What about these symbols?

8. Symbolism How do we know what they represent?

9. Read the following excerpt and identify at least one cause-effect relationship present. Researchers are finding that fish are one of the best foods to prevent heart attacks. Studies show that fish oil lowers cholesterol and triglycerides, the blood fats associated with heart disease. That in turn helps prevent blood clots, a major cause of heart attacks, and retards development of arteriosclerosis.

10. Objectives • Understand and identify symbolism in a narrative passage. • Practice symbolism recognition and interpretation. • Discuss story elements, conflict, cause/effect, and style in text.

11. Agenda • Cause/Effect Identification practice • Symbolism in a narrative presentation and practice • Small-group discussion and practice • Whole-class text discussion and check journals (time allotted) • Student on the Spot Interview (time allotted)

12. Homework Pre-AP: Complete journals and Complete “Symbolize My Life” assignment Honors: Complete journals and Complete “Symbolize My Life” assignment Traditional: Complete “Symbolize My Life” assignment

13. Symbolize My Life • Brainstorm and choose one item that you use, own, or have owned that acts as a symbol for your life, one that BEST represents you and who you are. • Photograph (and print), draw, or write a description of this item to bring to class. • Write a short summary of why this item best represents you as a symbol. • Be prepared to present this in class.

14. Symbolism How do you identify a symbol to begin with? • A symbol can be anything in the story that the reader can assign meaning to. How do you interpret the meaning of a symbol? • Identify what the author associates the symbol with in the story to form a conclusion. • A simple equation: Symbol + Association = Significance

15. For example, in A Gathering of Old Men Symbol + Association = Significance Tractor + Beau and the Cajuns, Silas’s race and death, modern farming, and destruction of the land = An eraser of culture that could wipe the way of life for Marshall from history

16. For example, in The Glass Castle Symbol + Association = Significance Fire + Jeanette’s accident, Tinkerbell, hotel and laboratory fires, Rex’s zone of heat = A tangled mess of emotion toward her family that has the power to both devastate and revive.

17. Practice Identify and Interpret the symbol here: Symbol + Association = Significance

18. Practice Identify and Interpret the symbol here: Symbol + Association = Significance Maya stared out the broken window at the dark, gloomy clouds as her finger traced the single raindrop making its way down the glass thinking about the argument she had with her boyfriend Mike which caused them to break-up.

19. Watch the following short film and identify and interpret at least one symbol present.

20. Agenda • Cause/Effect Identification practice • Symbolism in a narrative presentation and practice • Small-group discussion and practice • Whole-class text discussion and check journals (time allotted) • Student on the Spot Interview (time allotted)

21. Small-Group Practice • First, as a whole-group, let us identify 5 major symbols from the text: • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ Each group will be assigned one symbol.

22. Small-Group Practice Now, each small group needs to discuss, identify and present the significance of their symbol using our symbolic equation: Symbol + Association = Significance

23. Small-Group Presentation Symbol + Association = Significance ___________________ + _____________________ = _______________________________________

24. Listen to the following report from NPR and identify the forms of conflict and cause-effect relationships present.

25. Agenda • NPR report analysis • Agenda • Homework • Whole-class text discussion • Cause-Effect, Conflict, and POV review • Student on the Spot Interview (time allotted)

26. Homework Study for tomorrow’s test AND bring your literature textbook to class tomorrow.

27. Can we chart our story on Freytag’s Pyramid? 4. Climax: 3. Rising Action: 5. Falling Action: 7. Resolution: 2. Inciting Incident: 6. Final Event: 1. Exposition:

28. TextDiscussion Sharing from your journals, notes, or memories, what scenes, events, characters, conflicts, or ideas from the text would you like to discuss?

29. Now Take out a sheet of paper to follow along the review for tomorrow’s test. As each question is presented, I will select a student to answer. Do Not raise hands or volunteer and Do Not blurt answers.