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September 2, 2011. Good Things Warm Up Analyzing “Checkouts” Active reading log (together) Theme & Irony questions (together) Motivation Chart (together) Think-Tac-Toe – HOMEWORK due Tuesday September 6. Warm up. Copy and Consider the following quote:
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September 2, 2011 • Good Things • Warm Up • Analyzing “Checkouts” • Active reading log (together) • Theme & Irony questions (together) • Motivation Chart (together) • Think-Tac-Toe – HOMEWORK due Tuesday September 6
Warm up • Copy and Consider the following quote: • “If you choose not to decide, you have still made a choice.” • What does this quote mean? Why do people choose not to pursue what they want?
Theme and Irony: Copy and Answer these questions • Why is the THEME of this story? (think of missed opportunities…) • Explain how the following are examples of IRONY: *The boy drops the mayonnaise when he sees the girl. *The boy and girl deliberately avoid each other when the have the chance to speak. *The title of the story is Checkouts.
Essential Question • How does the setting and the character motivations influence the development of the plot?
“Checkouts” By Cynthia Rylant Literary Terms and Concepts
Theme • The meaning, moral, or message about life that a writer conveys to the reader. • Example: “Helping others is one of the best ways to feel good about yourself.” • Most themes are not stated, but rather revealed through clues and character behavior.
Characterization, Motives, Traits • Characterization • The strategies an author uses to describe a character, including what the character looks like, sounds like, and how he or she behaves. • Motives • The moment to moment feelings, desires, and needs that make a character do something. • Traits • The consistent, permanent qualities of a character’s personality, such as competitiveness or being nice.
Irony • This is a situation that is opposite what is expected to happen.
Types of Irony • Verbal: this is when words are used in a way that have opposite meanings than what they actually mean. • Example: They lived in a town called Summit, but it was in a land flat as a pancake.
Types of Irony • Situational: This is when the series of events works out to be the opposite of what you expect SHOULD happen. • Example: You are rushing and rushing around in the morning to leave for school, but then realize at the last minute it is Saturday.
Vocabulary for Checkouts By Cynthia Rylant
Intuition • “She had an intuition which told her that her parents were not safe for sharing such strong, important facts about herself.” • A feeling or sense about the future.
Lapse & Reverie • “Inside the supermarket, she would lapse into a kind of reverie and wheel toward the produce.” • Lapse means to fall behind or gradually slip. • Reverie means to daydream.
Meditation • “Like a Tibetan monk in solitary meditation, she calmed to a point of deep, deep happiness...” • A deep, calm happiness or pleasant feeling.
Brazen • “..he envied the sureness of everyone around him:..the brazen bag boys who smoked in the warehouse on their breaks.” • Bold, fearless, without care or concern for consequence.
Fetishes • “..he might learn just a little about her, check out the floor of the car for signs of hobbies or fetishes and the bumpers for clues of loyalties and beliefs.” • An intense liking of something, almost to the point of obsession.
Deftly • http://video.raelian.com/people • “She had loved the way his long nervous fingers moved from the conveyer belt to the bags, how deftly they had picked up her items and placed them into bags.” • To do something with a lot of skill and quickness.
Tedious • “For the boy, the long and often tedious hours at the supermarket, which provided no challenge other than showing up the following workday.” • Long, boring, frustrating
Perverse • “For some perverse reason she would not have been able to articulate, the girl did not bring her cart up to the boy’s checkout when her shopping was done.” • Improper or against normal expectation.
Impulse • “She had an impulse to throw herself at their feet and beg them to let her stay.” • An overwhelming desire to do something.