Language of Literature: Daily Agenda

Reading Strategies

Question- While you read, question what's happening. Searching for reasons behind events and characters' actions can help you get more involved in what you read.

Connect- Connect personally with what you're reading. Think of similarities between the descriptions in the selection and what you have personally experienced, heard, or read.

Predict- Try to figure out what will happen next and how the selection might end. Then read on to see if you made good guesses.

Clarify- Stop occasionally to review what you understand so far, and expect to have your understanding change and develop as you read on.

Evaluate- Form opinions about what you read, both while you're reading and after you've finished. Make judgments about the characters and develop your own ideas about events.

Visualize- Make a picture in your mind of what the text says. Imagine you are looking at what is describe.

Literary Terms

Plot- the series of incidents or happenings in a story. The plot is the outline or arrangement of events.

Setting- the time and place of the action in a story; where and when the action takes place.

Mood- the feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates. For example, the mood of a story might be joyous or suspenseful.

Theme- the main idea of a story.

Style- the way in which a writer uses language. The choice and arrangement of words and sentences help to create the author’s style.

Purpose- the reason the author wrote the story. For example, an author’s purpose might be to amuse or entertain, to convince, or to inform.

Characterization- the ways a writer shows what a character is like. The way a character acts, speaks, thinks and looks characterizes that person.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Daily Agenda

Entry Task
The "Um, ah, like, you know" Game
The Writing Process
    Prewriting -> 1st Draft -> Revisions -> Edits -> Publish
RAFT
    Role
    Audience
    Format
    Topic
Expository Writing
    Write a letter to your teacher that
    shares various events from your summer.
HOMEWORK
    Essay-First Draft

Language of Literature

Reading Strategies

Literary Terms

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Daily Agenda

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