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Vocabulary Squares and Literary Vocabulary Review

This bell ringer review activity focuses on reviewing vocabulary squares and literary vocabulary, such as plot, epiphany, irony, dialogue, setting, and suspense. Students will draw squares with definitions, sentence connections, and pictures related to the words. They will also explore essential questions about beliefs and values, make text, world, and self connections, and answer level 1 questions about a story. Homework includes completing inquiry question circles and summarizing the main character's life in 6 words.

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Vocabulary Squares and Literary Vocabulary Review

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  1. Mrs. Lindemood 9th Grade

  2. Bell Ringer

  3. Review • There indicates a place as in, "I live here not there." It is the opposite of here. Their is the possessive of they, as in "They live there but it isn't their house." Here you want to indicate that the house belongs to them. They're is a contraction of they are, so that to say, "They're over there in their new house" means "They are over at that place in the new house that belongs to them.“

  4. Review

  5. Vocabulary Squares • In your notebooks draw the square below: Definition( from the dictionary) Word: Sentence-Connection (Use a word in a sentence; provide enough context that I know you understand the meaning of the word and its usage. Picture (draw a picture related to your use of the word in the sentence you created)

  6. Vocabulary for Today • Literary Vocabulary: Plot, epiphany, irony, dialogue, setting, suspense

  7. Essential Question • Coming of Age: Beliefs and Values • We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.–Ralph Waldo Emerson • How do I decide and express what I believe and value?

  8. In your notebook

  9. In your notebook Text Connections- What can be asked that can be answered by looking directly in the text?

  10. In your notebook World Connections What cultural, societal, current event, historical event can be drawn out of the text?

  11. In your notebook Self Connections What questions can be asked that the answer would require the reader to pull from personal experiences?

  12. In your notebook Self Connection Text Connection World Connection

  13. In your Notebook • Level 1 Questions- Surface level questions; can be found and answered directly within the text. Who, What, When, Where Etc.

  14. The necklace • http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=15190446&m=16368903 • What is the story going to be about?

  15. Let’s Read • Grab a textbook that corresponds to the number on your desk. • Turn to page 536

  16. Group Work • Finish the story and complete the level 1 questions in your notebook. • Homework: Finish the inquiry question circles and finish the story.

  17. closure • In your notebooks…If you could sum up the main character’s life in 6 words what would they be?

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