Welcome back, Mavericks!

1. Welcome back, Mavericks! Ms. McKinney English 1/7/2013

2. New Journals and Notebooks Who remembered to bring two spirals after the break?

3. First Spiral: Your New Journal

4. Your New Journal • Our journal procedure will be the same this semester as last semester. This means that each day, when you come into the classroom, you should begin working on your journal. • The journal prompt will be written on the magnet board each day. • This spiral will not leave the classroom, and should only be used for your journal entries. Because you are providing this spiral, you may take it home at the end of the school year.

5. Journal Prompts • Please remember to submit journal prompts that you would like to write about! • Try to make them original, no one likes writing about the same thing every day. • They don’t have to be serious, but they do have to be school appropriate!

6. Second Spiral: Your English Notebook

7. What will they include? • Spelling Words • Vocabulary for each unit • Key Understandings for each unit • All notes taken in class • Some in-class assignments

8. You must bring them EVERY DAY! • If you forget, you will be expected to write the day’s notes on a separate sheet of paper, then copy it into your English notebook at home. You will not be given class time to make up these notes.

9. How will they be graded? • I will do random checks to see that you have your notebook in class, and that you are keeping up with the class notes. • This will be either a quiz grade and/or a bottle ticket opportunity.

10. What if you are absent? • You are responsible for getting all class notes that you missed from a classmate. • All makeup notes must be copied by hand into your English notebook. You may not staple, tape, or otherwise adhere copied sheets into your notebook.

11. Questions? Let’s get started!

12. Unit 04A: Creating Connections across Literary Text

13. Key Understandings Unit 04A Every student should understand and master these by the end of the unit.

14. Key Understandings Unit 04A • Authors of literary works share their messages by stating or implying important themes throughout their works.

15. Key Understandings Unit 04A • Understanding the connections between literary elements facilitates the reader’s ability to make meaning of text.

16. Key Understandings Unit 04A • Authors use techniques and elements to enable the reader to experience and connect with the events and characters.

17. Key Understandings Unit 04A • Authors use conventions of written language to communicate clearly and effectively.

18. Key Understandings Unit 04A • Readers use strategies to support interpretation of text.

19. Key Understandings Unit 04A • Understanding new words and concepts enhances comprehension and oral and written communication.

20. Vocabulary Unit 04A Use this list of vocabulary words as your own personal glossary as we study this unit.

21. Vocabulary Unit 04A Plot Conflict • The plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work. • A fight, battle, or struggle.

22. Vocabulary Unit 04A Rising Action Falling Action • A related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest. • The part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.

23. Vocabulary Unit 04A Resolution Theme • The act of resolving or determining upon action or course of action, method, procedure, etc. • A solution, accommodation, or settling of a problem or conflict • A unifying or dominant idea or motif

24. Vocabulary Unit 04A Character Setting • The people that play out the story in a literary work. • Where the story takes place

25. Vocabulary Unit 04A Sensory Detail Context Clue • Words and phrases that help readers see, hear, taste, feel, or smell what the author is describing.. • Sources of information outside of words that readers may use to predict the identities and meanings of unknown words

26. Vocabulary Unit 04A Ambiguous Myth • Open to more than one interpretation; having a double meaning • A traditional story, esp. one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events

27. Vocabulary Unit 04A Draft Analogy • A preliminary version of a piece of writing • A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification

28. Vocabulary Unit 04A Literary Device Imagery • A literary or linguistic technique that produces a specific effect, esp. a figure of speech, narrative style, or plot mechanism • Visually descriptive or figurative language

29. Vocabulary Unit 04A Hyperbole Irony • Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally • The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect

30. Vocabulary Unit 04A Oxymoron Simile • A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely true) • A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox)

31. Vocabulary Unit 04A Metaphor Aphorism • A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable • A thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, esp. something abstract • A pithy observation that contains a general truth, such as, “if it ain't broke, don't fix it.”

32. Vocabulary Unit 04A Epigraph Protagonist • An inscription on a building, statue, or coin • A short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme • The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text

33. Vocabulary Unit 04A Antagonist Revise • A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary • Reconsider and alter (something) in the light of further evidence • Reread work done previously to improve one's knowledge of a subject, typically to prepare for an examination

34. Vocabulary Unit 04A Antecedent Simple Sentence • A word, phrase, clause, or sentence to which another word (esp. a following relative pronoun) refers • A thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another • A sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate

35. Vocabulary Unit 04A Compound Sentence Complex Sentence • A sentence with more than one subject or predicate • A sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses

36. Vocabulary Unit 04A Root Affix • A morpheme, not necessarily surviving as a word in itself, from which words have been made by the addition of prefixes or suffixes or by other modification • An additional element placed at the beginning or end of a root, stem, or word, or in the body of a word, to modify its meaning

37. Vocabulary Unit 04A Prefix Suffix • An element placed at the beginning of a word to adjust or qualify its meaning, e.g., ex-, non-, re- or (in some languages) as an inflection • A morpheme added at the end of a word to form a derivative, e.g., -ation, -fy, -ing, -itis

38. Vocabulary Unit 04A Academic Language Edit • This term refers to the variety of language that is used in academic purposes in school settings.  It is formal, discusses abstract topics and uses precise vocabulary terms. • Prepare (written material) for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it

39. Vocabulary Unit 04A Parenthesis Bracket • A word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage that is grammatically complete without it, in writing usually marked off by curved brackets, dashes, or commas • One or both of a pair of marks () used to include such a word, clause, or sentence • Each of a pair of marks [ ] used to enclose words or figures so as to separate them from the context

40. That’s it! The Key Understandings and Vocabulary for some units are much longer than others. Our vocabulary will not always be this extensive.