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, October 24, 2007

Daily Agenda

Entry Task
    Lucy felted a little frightened but she felt vary inquisitive and excited as well she looked back over her should and their between the dark tree trunks, she could still see the open doorway of the wardrobe and even a catch a glimpse of the empty room form which she had set out.

DEAR Reading
    Please identify two sentences that show elaboration from your DEAR book.

Journal Prompt
    Exploring or simply just sneaking around ones neighborhood is often the past time of many American youth. Explain your favor place to explore and what kind of things you have found.

Spelling and Vocab Time
    10 minutes of class time is dedicated to working on your vocab worksheet and spelling words. Please remember that you will have a test on Friday.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: thank you for having this dictnary it's helpfull; November 1, 2007 at 8:51 AM