1. October 8, 2014 - Stargirl chapters 17 and 18 Homework: Bring your copy of Stargirl for tomorrow's class. Vocab quiz on Monday - chapters 13-22 Test corrections due Friday! Objective I can evaluate Stargirl's rising action as the story moves toward the climax. Warm Up: What is a noun? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kcJzh6gqGM

2. Create a chart like this one in your notes: Concrete Abstract Proper Compound

3. Read the first paragraph of chapter 17 (pg. 85). Write down every noun that you see in the appropriate column.

4. Leo goes to Stargirl's house and they have the conversation in her driveway Leo and the other students visit Archie to talk about the basketball loss Leo avoids Stargirl after he receives her Valentine's card

5. Warm up: Copy the following questions and vocabulary words into your notes Chapters 17 and 18 1. Describe the enchanted place Stargirl brought Leo and explain what made it enchanted. 2. How do the other students treat Stargirl after the basketball loss? 3. Contrast Leo and Stargirl's reaction to the silent treatment. barren (87) interrogate (94) paranoid (99)

6. Leo realizes that he and Stargirl are getting the silent treatment Stargirl takes Leo to her "enchanted" place and teaches him how to meditate

7. barren (87) interrogate (94) paranoid (99) 1. To the person who expects every desert to be barren sand dunes, the Sonoran must come as a surprise. Not only are there no dunes, there's no sand. 2. We put on our shoes. We headed for the highway. I expected her to interrogate me, but she did not...We walked across the desert hand in hand, saying nothing. 3. For the rest of the day and the next and the next, I grew increasingly paranoid. Walking with her in and around the school, I was intensely aware that the nature of our aloneness had changed. It was no longer a cozy, tunnel-of-love sweetness, but a chilling isolation.

8. barren too poor to produce much or any vegetation; bleak and lifeless http://ak9.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/671920/preview/stock-footage-petrified-tree-in-barren-environmental-wilderness.jpg

9. interrogate to question formally and closely http://www.jgrell.com/project2/images/interrogate_skills.png

10. paranoid having or showing an unreasonable feeling that people are trying to harm you, do not like you, etc. http://www.illustrationsof.com/royalty-free-paranoid-clipart-illustration-433657.jpg

11. subdued quiet, reflective, low-spirited, somber, depressed

12. oblivious to be unaware of what is happening around you; unmindful http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/660286/660286,1285284224,1/stock-photo-moodie-character-oblivious-and-going-wrong-way-on-one-way-street-61619524.jpg

13. hesitated to be slow to act, speak or decide. to pause or wait in uncertainty http://vecto.rs/1024/vector-of-a-cartoon-woman-hesitating-to-push-a-button-outlined-coloring-page-by-ron-leishman-18650.jpg