Lizzie Bright and The Buckminster Boy

1. Lizzie Bright and The Buckminster Boy Introduction

2. Complete the following statements…. • When a new student comes to school…… • New students should always… • It’s really hard to be the new kid because… • When I was the new kid in my school/neighborhood….

3. The government should be able to take land away from its citizens

4. Brainstorm • List ways that you are LIKE/UNLIKE your best friends

5. Eminent Domain • “…is an action of the state to seize a citizen's private property,…or seize a citizen's rights in property with due monetary compensation, but without the owner's consent.” – Webster Dictionary

6. Notebook • Page 1-2 Initiating activities • Page 3- 5 Vocabulary Ch. 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 (Definition, Part of speech, and in context) • Page 6-8 Literary terms: All • Page 9-10 Literary Elements Chart Ch. 1-6 • Page 11-13 Ch. 1-6 Questions

7. Vocabulary

8. Vocabulary Ch. 1-2 • reprobate – morally abandoned • mollusk – animals, such as snails and clams, with a soft un-segmented body enclosed in a shell • finesse – skillful handling of a situation • roiling – to stir up; disturb; disorder • sluicing – a body of water pent up behind a floodgate. • portico – a porch • dory – a flat-bottomed boat with high flaring sides, sharp bow, and deep v-shaped at one end of a boat. • mica – type of mineral.

9. Vocabulary Ch. 3-4 • sonorous – producing sound, especially when struck. • seraphim – an order of angels – one of the 6-winged angels standing in the presence of God. • sepia – the inky secretion of a cuttlefish • eloquent – marked by forceful and fluent • expression – like an eloquent preacher. • squalor – marked by filthiness and degradation from neglect or poverty • cavorting – to engage in extravagant behavior

10. Vocabulary Ch. 5-6 • maelstrom – a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius • gargantuan – tremendous size or volume • sloop – a fore-and-aft rigged boat with one mast and a single headsail jib • impertinent – not important • melee – a confused struggle especially a hand-to-hand fight among several people • omnipotent – having virtually unlimited power or authority

11. Literary Terms • Prediction: anticipate what will occur next by using the clues (evidence) from the text.

12. Literary Terms • Simile: Compare to UNLIKE things using like or as • Metaphor Compare to UNLIKE things WITHOUT using like or as • Personification: Giving a nonliving object human characteristics • Hyperbole: Extreme exaggeration

13. Literary Elements

14. Ch. 1 and 2 questions • Why is Turner unsuccessful in the baseball game in Phippsburg, even though he had excelled as a baseball player in Boston? • What seems to be the expectations of a preacher’s son in the novel? What do Turner’s parents expect of him? What do the townspeople expect? • Describe the relationship between Turner and his father at the beginning of the novel. Continue to analyze this relationship as you read to see if it changes. • There are numerous images or references to death in the first two chapters of the novel. Locate these and list them on the board. Why do you think the author included these in the text?

15. Conflicts • Man Vs. Man • Man Vs. Self • Man Vs. Nature • Man Vs. Society