Bud, Not Buddy By: Christopher Paul Curtis Lesson 2 cont. – Lesson 3

1. Bud, Not BuddyBy: Christopher Paul CurtisLesson 2 cont. – Lesson 3 Miss Towne ELA 6 December 2013 Common Core State Standards Module

2. What does it mean to “survive”? • What is your definition of survive? • On a piece of paper write down your definition and share with your neighbor. • Do you and your neighbor have the same definition? Is it different?

3. What does it mean to “thrive”? • Like last time, write down your definition of what it means to thrive? • You can write your definition on the same paper you wrote your definition of survive. • Again, share with your neighbor. Are your definitions the same or different?

4. “Survive” Vs. “Thrive” Write these definitions down: • Survive – generally means to “remain alive.” • Thrive – generally means to “grow, develop, and be successful.”

5. Examples - • “Look both ways and listen before crossing the road.” Survive • “Don’t settle until you have found what you love in work and in personal relationships.” Thrive - Which is an example of survive? - Which is an example of thrive?

6. Now, add survive and thrive to your word catchers.

7. “Bud Caldwell’s rules and things for having a funner life and making a better liar out of yourself” • Review: Why might Bud need/want to have a funner life and be a better liar?

8. “Bud Caldwell’s rules and things for having a funner life and making a better liar out of yourself” Rules and Things Number 118: “You have to give adults something that they think they can use to hurt you by taking it away. That way they might not take something away that you really do want. Unless they’re crazy or real stupid they won’t take everything because if they did they wouldn’t have anything to hold over you hear to hurt you with later.” Page 18 What does rule number 118 mean in your own words? How does Bud use this rule, to survive or thrive? Provide evidence to prove your choice.

9. “Bud Caldwell’s rules and things for having a funner life and making a better liar out of yourself” Rules and Things Number 118: Where do you think this rule came from? What does it tell us about Bud? • This rule most likely means that Bud has had many things taken away from him by adults in his life already, and he has learned how to protect the things that are important to him.

10. Learning Targets of Lesson 2: • “I can determine the meaning of figurative language in Bud, Not Buddy.” • I can explain how the author’s word choice affects tone and meaning in the novel.”

11. Learning Targets of Lesson 2: What is figurative language? • Figurative language is language that uses figures of speech to create images of what something looks like, sounds like or feels like. • It is different from literal language because literal language means exactly what it says. • One common form of figurative language is when you describe something by comparing it to something else. *Add figurative language to your word catcher.*

12. Introducing Figurative Language in Bud, Not Buddy • The narrator of a story is the one who tells the story. • Who is the narrator of Bud, Not Buddy? The narrator is Bud. *Add narrator to your word catcher.*

13. Think and Share • How might having Bud tell the story affect the language of the novel? Having a character, like Bud, as narrator means we, as readers, hear the story in the particular way that character talks. • How might having Bud tell the story affect the reader? In this story, we hear the voice of a ten-year-old boy in a particular time period, and in a particular region of the country. His age, his experiences, his personality, and his setting all affect the way he speaks, the way he tells a story, and the words he chooses.

14. Figurative Language and Tone • The use of figurative language can lead to the type of tone a story has. • Where have you heard the word tone? Maybe in: - music - “tone of voice”

15. Tone • When using tone, in regards to literature, is most like “tone of voice.” As with our voices, tone in writing conveys feelings. • When reading there is no actual voice telling the story so an author uses words to create a tone and convey feeling. • Tone is defined as, “the feelings a narrator has toward a character or subject in the story. *Add tone to your word catchers.* While reading Bud, Not Buddy, we will be paying close attention to Bud’s language and will watch how his language affects the story.

16. Open to page 1: “All the kids watched the woman as she moved along the line, her high-heeled shoes sounding like little firecrackers going off on the wooden floor.” • How does Buddy describe the woman’s walk in this excerpt? Comparing two things in order to describe is a form of figurative language: Simile A simile compares two things that are not alike using the words “like” or “as.” Example: “Her eyes are as blue as the sky.” *Add simile to your word catcher.”

17. Figurative language in bud, not buddy graphic organizer Fill in the first column, “Example of Figurative Language”, with the example from page 1. • What is the literal meaning of this description? • What is Bud trying to describe using this figurative language? Fill in the second column, “What does this mean literally.”

18. How does figurative language affect the tone of the excerpt in which the woman is walking down the hall? Her walk is not soft; it is forceful and loud. • What inference can we make about Bud’s feelings, based on his use of figurative language in this excerpt? We can infer that Bud sees the woman in a negative way. Bud sees her as official and intimidating, not caring and gentle. Fill in the third column, “What this example shows me about Bud (tone).”

19. How word choice affects tone • Figurative language is one way authors can affect the tone of a story. Another way is through word choices. • Open to page 4. Let’s read, “It’s at six that grown folks…” to “The first foster home I was in taught me that real quick.”

20. Page 4 • What is Bud explaining in this excerpt? Example answer: Bud is explaining how things change when you turn six. ________________________________________ Now let’s focus on this part, “…’cause it’s around six that grown folks stop giving you little swats and taps and jump clean up to giving you slugs that’ll knock you right down.” Page 4

21. Quote from page 4 • What do swat and tap mean? Light hits without malicious or bad intent. • What is the meaning of the word slug? A hard hit with the intent to hurt. • What is the difference between a swat and a tap and a slug?

22. Word Choice • Using words like swat, tap and slug was a deliberate choice by the author and they affect the tone and meaning of the text. • How do these three words affect the tone?

23. Interpreting figurative language in Chapter 2 of Bud, Not Buddy • Exit ticket: Fill in the chart on the handout given to you interpreting figurative language. • The page number is given if you want to go back in the text and read more of the context of the quote provided.

27. Homework Read Chapter 3 Use your “Tracking Bud’s Rules” organizer to identify and keep track of the rules presented in Chapter 3