Getting Ready for Reading 1

1. Getting Ready for Reading 1 Ms. Woodhouse and Ms. Miller

2. SOL Objectives: • 9.2 The student will produce, analyze, and evaluate auditory, visual, and written media messages. • 10.2 The student will analyze, produce, and examine similarities and differences between visual and verbal media messages. • 10.4 The student will read, comprehend, and analyze literary texts of different cultures and eras. • 11.2 The student will examine how values and points of view are included and excluded and how media influences beliefs and behaviors. • 11.4 The student will read, comprehend, and analyze relationships among American literature, history, and culture. • 12.3 The student will apply knowledge of word origins, derivations, and figurative language to extend vocabulary development in authentic text. • 12.4 The student will read, comprehend, and analyze the development of literature.

3. Objectives: • Given the Smart board, computer, power point: students will be able to identify the basic elements of a short story through note taking; make comparisons with basic literary terms to models; and create a plot diagram based on a short story.

4. Anticipation Set: • Motivator: In your opinion, why are short stories entertaining? Give at least three reasons.

5. Anticipation Set Cont. • Connector: Today, we are going to identify basic literary terms. • Relevancy: Short stories are entertaining because writers use basic literary elements to grab the reader’s attention.

6. Pretest: • Hello! You are going to take a pretest on the literary terms that we are going to take today. Once you have completed this test, your scores will show what you already know and what you don’t know. • At the end of this lesson, you will take a post test. Your post test should be higher than your pretest scores. • Click on the link below to take your pretest. http://www.quia.com/quiz/4209840.html

7. Essential Questions: • Why is the concept of learning vocabulary words before reading a selection important? • What strategies for reading are essential to comprehending a literary text? • What plan could be or formula could be used to understand a reading selection?

8. Plot Diagram Freytag’s Pyramid

9. Notes: Plot Diagram/Freytag’s Pyramid (Do not copy this page.) • Before reading a story, you must understand the formula for the creation of a story. • This formula has a series of important vocabulary words that you must know.

10. Copy: Freytag’s Pyramid (Plot Diagram)

11. Copy: Freytag’s Pyramid Vocabulary • 1. Exposition: Introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation. • 2. Rising Action: The problems in a story that leads to the main event. (This makes the puzzle to the story.) • 3. Climax: The highest point in a story or main event. • 4. Falling Action: The characters are starting to fit the pieces of the puzzle of the story together. • 5. Denouement/Resolution: The end of the story.

12. Practice: Before you click on the link below, make sure that you have the full power point up. After you have completed this assignment, please show your score to Ms. Woodhouse or Ms. Miller for a grade. (Have fun! ) http://www.quia.com/jg/155157.html

13. Elements of Literature Part 1: Vocabulary

14. Copy: Vocabulary 1 • 1. Theme- The central message in a story. • 2. Plot- Sequence of events in a literary work. • 3. Tone- The writer’s attitude toward his or her audience and subject. • 4. Point of View- The attitude or outlook of a narrator or character in a piece of literature. • 5. Symbolism- Anything that stands for or represents something else. • 6. Mood- (Or atmosphere) Is the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. • 7. Motif- The reoccurring theme in a story. • 8. Short Story- A brief work of fiction.

15. Now Play the Game/Other Elements of Literature: • 1. http://www.quia.com/cm/590051.html What do you remember? • 2. http://www.quia.com/ba/558655.html

16. Review Exercise Based on the short story couple of slides, create your own plot diagram (Freytag’s Pyramid). Your plot diagram or pyramid will describe the following: • Exposition (Setting) • Rising Action • Climax • Falling Action • Resolution

17. The Horned Woman (1) • A rich woman sat up late one night carding and preparing wool, while all the family and servants were asleep. Suddenly a knock was given at the door, and a voice called, "Open! open!“ • "Who is there?" said the woman of the house. • "I am the Witch of one Horn," was answered. • The mistress, supposing that one of her neighbors had called and required assistance, opened the door, and a woman entered, having in her hand a pair of wool-carders, and bearing a horn on her forehead, as if growing there. She sat down by the fire in silence, and began to card the wool with violent haste. Suddenly she paused, and said aloud: "Where are the women? they delay too long."

18. The Horned Woman Continued: (2) • Then a second knock came to the door, and a voice called as before, "Open! open!“ • The mistress felt herself obliged to rise and open to the call, and immediately a second witch entered, having two horns on her forehead, and in her hand a wheel for spinning wool. • "Give me place," she said; "I am the Witch of the two Horns," and she began to spin as quick as lightning. • And so the knocks went on, and the call was heard, and the witches entered, until at last twelve women sat round the fire - the first with one horn, the last with twelve horns.

19. The Horned Woman Continued: (3) • Then a second knock came to the door, and a voice called as before, "Open! open!“ • The mistress felt herself obliged to rise and open to the call, and immediately a second witch entered, having two horns on her forehead, and in her hand a wheel for spinning wool. • "Give me place," she said; "I am the Witch of the two Horns," and she began to spin as quick as lightning. • And so the knocks went on, and the call was heard, and the witches entered, until at last twelve women sat round the fire - the first with one horn, the last with twelve horns.

20. The Horned Woman Continued: (4) • And they carded the thread, and turned their spinning-wheels, and wound and wove, all singing together an ancient rhyme, but no word did they speak to the mistress of the house. Strange to hear, and frightful to look upon, were these twelve women, with their horns and their wheels; and the mistress felt near to death, and she tried to rise that she might call for help, but she could not move, nor could she utter a word or a cry, for the spell of the witches was upon her. • Then one of them called to her in Irish, and said, "Rise, woman, and make us a cake."

21. The Horned Woman Continued: (5) • Then the mistress searched for a vessel to bring water from the well that she might mix the meal and make the cake, but she could find none. • And they said to her, "Take a sieve and bring water in it.“ • And she took the sieve and went to the well - but the water poured from it, and she could fetch none for the cake, and she sat down by the well and wept. • Then a voice came by her and said, "Take yellow clay and moss, and bind them together, and plaster the sieve so that it will hold.“ • This she did, and the sieve held the water for the cake - and the voice said again:

22. The Horned Woman Continued: (6) • "Return, and when thou comest to the north angle of the house, cry aloud three times and say, 'The mountain of the Fenian women and the sky over it is all on fire.'“ • And she did so. • When the witches inside heard the call, a great and terrible cry broke from their lips, and they rushed forth with wild lamentations and shrieks, and fled away to Slievenamon, where was their chief abode. But the Spirit of the Well bade the mistress of the house to enter and prepare her home against the enchantments of the witches if they returned again.

23. The Horned Woman Continued: (7) • And first, to break their spells, she sprinkled the water in which she had washed her child's feet, the feet-water, outside the door on the threshold - secondly, she took the cake which in her absence the witches had made of meal mixed with the blood drawn from the sleeping family, and she broke the cake in bits, and placed a bit in the mouth of each sleeper, and they were restored - and she took the cloth they had woven, and placed it half in and half out of the chest with the padlock - and lastly, she secured the door with a great crossbeam fastened in the jambs, so that the witches could not enter, and having done these things she waited. • Not long were the witches in coming back, and they raged and called for vengeance.

24. The Horned Woman Continued: (8) • "Open! open!" they screamed; "open, feet-water!“ • "I cannot," said the feet-water; "I am scattered on the ground, and my path is down to the Lough.“ • "Open, open, wood and trees and beam!" they cried to the door. • "I cannot," said the door, "for the beam is fixed in the jambs and I have no power to move.“ • "Open, open, cake that we have made and mingled with blood!" they cried again. • "I cannot," said the cake, "for I am broken and bruised, and my blood is on the lips of the sleeping children."

25. The Horned Woman Continued: (9) • Then the witches rushed through the air with great cries, and fled back to Slievenamon, uttering strange curses on the Spirit of the Well, who had wished their ruin - but the woman and the house were left in peace, and a mantle dropped by one of the witches in her flight was kept hung up by the mistress in memory of that night; and this mantle was kept by the same family from generation to generation for five hundred years after. (The End)

26. Answer the following Questions based on the reading: • 1. What is the theme of this story? Please write your answer in complete sentences. • 2. Describe the tone of this story. Please write your answer in complete sentences. • 3. Define “motif.” Did this story have a motif? Explain your answer. Please write your answer in complete sentences. • 4. What was the mood of the story? Please write your answer in complete sentences. • 5. From whose point of view was this story told?

27. Closure: Post Test • You are now going to complete a pretest based on this lesson. I hope you have enjoyed this self paced study guide for the SOL test. • Click the link below for your post test. http://www.quia.com/quiz/4209860.html