9-20-11

1. 9-20-11 • Turn in your character trading card with the rough draft bule paper to your group folder. • Take home Vocabulary Unit 2 in your Tuesday Folder. • We will correct Handbook pp.2-3.

2. Agenda 9-20-11 • AR 1st Quarter Goal due Wednesday, October 12th. • Literature Test tomorrow. Study Lit Notes, review Rikki and 3 Skeleton plot. • Vocab Practice Fun due Thursday. • Vocabulary Test is Friday.

3. Jeopardy Hosted by Mrs. Murphy

4. Elements of a story Conflict Rikki 3 Skeleton Key Literary Focus 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 600 600 600 600 600 700 700 700 700 700 800 800 800 800 800

5. Elements of a Story 100 What is the basic situation? Who the characters are and what they want.

6. Conflict 100 What is external conflict? A character struggles with another person, a group, or a force of nature.

7. Rikki 100 What is a summer flood washes him out of his home? This event leads up to Rikki living with Teddy and his parents.

8. Three Skeleton Key 100 What is it pays good money? The reason the narrator takes the job at Three Skeleton Key .

9. What is the resolution? All the loose ends of the story are tied up. Elements of a Story 200

10. What is an internal conflict? A young man struggles with the loss of his mother is an example of what type of conflict. Conflict 200

11. Who are Darzee and Nagaina? These two characters are similar because they stay in their nests and care for their young. Rikki 200

12. What are dogs? The narrator convinces us that the rats are the worst possible sort by telling us the tale of two terrier ______ being eaten by sea rats. Three Skeleton Key 200

13. What is plot? What happens in the story. Elements of a Story 300

14. What is crying(tears in his eyes) ? The narrator of the story does this when the Cornelius de Witt, the abandoned ship, crashes onto the island. Conflict 300

15. What is wanting to kill Teddy’s father? Nag’s reason for hiding in the bathroom. Rikki 300

16. What is the lighthouse being completely covered with rats? The officers and crew of the first patrol boat look at the lighthouse with horrified expressions because… Three Skeleton Key 300

17. What are complications? A series of events that make the plot more complex, increase the reader’s anxiety, add to the conflict and make it more intense. Elements of a Story 400

18. What is man vs. nature? Rikki being washed out of his burrow by a summer flood is an example of what type of external conflict. Conflict 400

19. What is overjoyed that the snakes are dead? The birds and the frogs in the garden rejoice at the end of the story because they are... Rikki 400

20. What is collapse? The thickness of the window in the lantern room implies that the window will ___________. Three Skeleton Key 400

21. What is foreshadowing? Hinting at events that will happen later in the story. Elements of a Story 500

22. What is true? True or False A story can have both internal and external conflicts. Conflict 500

23. Who is Chuchundra? This character is so scared of Nag and Nagaina that he cannot even walk across the room. Rikki 500

24. Who is Itchoua? This lighthouse attendant dies from rat bites. Three Skeleton Key 500

25. What is suspense? The most emotional or suspenseful moment in the story. Elements of a Story 600

26. What is conflict? The problem in the story. Elements of a Story 700

27. What is suspense? The feeling of anxious curiosity. Elements of a Story 800

28. Who is the narrator? This lighthouse attendant returns to the island. Conflict 600

29. What is true? True or False In Rikki-tikki-tavi, conflict could not be avoided. Conflict 700

30. What is window? The following event adds to the conflict in Three Skeleton Key, “The rats first get into the lighthouse when the _________ gives way. Conflict 800

31. What is afraid? “Complete this statement, Rikki instinctively knows how to fight snakes that is why he is not_____________.” Rikki 600

32. What is the cobra might turn and strike? Following Nagaina into the hole was an unwise thing for Rikki to do because… Rikki 700

33. What is gun? If Teddy’s father had not used his ________, Rikki might have been killed. Rikki 800

34. Who are three convicts dying on the island? The island was named Three Skeleton Key because of this event. Three Skeleton Key 600

35. Who is LeGleo? This lighthouse attendant is sent to an insane asylum. Three Skeleton Key 700

36. What is treacherous? Ships did not sail close to the island because the waters were___________. Three Skeleton Key 800

37. What is Rikki following Nagaina in the hole? This event was the climax of Rikki-tikki-tavi. Literary Focus 100

38. What is eggs? The conflict in Rikki-tikki-tavi is resolved when Nag is killed in the bathroom, Rikki destroys Nagaina’s _______, and when Rikki follows Nagaina in the hole Literary Focus 200

39. What is suspense? The waters surrounding the key swarm with sharks, the window is eaten away, and the abandoned ship crashes onto the island. All these things help to create... Literary Focus 300

40. What is tempting the rats onto a barge filled with meat and setting it on fire? This event is the climax of Three Skeleton Key. Literary Focus 300

41. What is frightening? The history of the rock tells enables us to predict that “Three Skeleton Key” will be a __________ tale. Literary Focus 300

42. What is conflict? Because Rikki-tikki-tavi and the snakes are natural enemies, the _________ of the story cannot be avoided. Literary Focus 300

43. What is the resolution? Rikki becomes the protector of the garden and everyone is happy. Literary Focus 300

44. What is motive? The reason for a character’s behavior. Literary Focus 300