Let’s get started!

• Grammar Pre-Assessment– Turn to page _____ in your

Grammar textbook.– Complete _________.

• This assessment will determine the method for grammar instruction over the next few weeks. PLEASE do your best!

Lesson EQ: How can context and background knowledge improve

my reading experience?

• What is oral tradition?– Oral Tradition is something that is passed down

from generation to generation through word of mouth. Sayings are told, but nothing is written.

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few examples.

Folktales• Very similar to oral traditions, folktales are

actual stories; whereas, oral traditions are simply sayings or beliefs.

• Much like oral traditions, the main characters in folktales are often animals.

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Joel Chandler Harris

“One of the South's most treasured authors, Joel Chandler Harris gained national prominence for his

numerous volumes of Uncle Remus folktales. Harris's long-standing legacy as a "progressive conservative" New South journalist, folklorist,

fiction writer, and children's author continues to influence our society today.” (Courtesy of the Georgia Encyclopedia.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A6hMfxt5gg

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Let’s reflect…

• What did we learn about JCH’s personality?

• What was the most significant fact regarding JCH’s style of writing?

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What do you think?

1. Consider the elements of Southern Literature (refer to your Anticipation Guide) and identify the one characteristic you think most relates to Joel Chandler Harris and the Uncle Remus stories. Convey your opinion in one complete sentence.

For example, I think Joel Chandler Harris is probably most renowned for __________ because…

2. Write one sentence to tell how you think dialect can engage a reader.

3. Based on today’s information, what do you expect from the stories that you will read this week?

Lesson EQ: How can context and background knowledge improve my reading experience?

Daily Grammar Practice

Simple Subjects

ELACC8RL4: The student will determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on

meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.

Lesson EQ: How can context and background knowledge improve my reading experience?

Understanding Folktales & Oral Tradition

What is dialect?

Dialect is a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties

and constituting together with them a single language.

What is our dialect like here in Quitman? Give some examples?

How is our dialect different from that of someone in Minnesota?

ELACC8RL4: The student will determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other

texts.

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Local ColorRaise your hand and tell me what you think this

means as it pertains to literature.

Local color is distinctive, sometimes picturesque characteristics or peculiarities of a place or

period as represented in literature or drama, or as observed in reality.

ELACC8RL4: The student will determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on

meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.

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Southern Lit Characteristics

Let’s add to our list…

Southern Draw/Slang/AccentSouthern Hospitality

Common Southern CourtesySouthern Dress

Geography/TerrainELACC8RL4: The student will determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in

a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.

Lesson EQ: How can context and background knowledge improve my reading experience?

Today’s Tasks:

Read “Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear”

Class Discussion

Group Reflection and Questions

ELACC8RL4: The student will determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on

meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.

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ReflectionHow does the dialect and local color make this story

better?

How are the characters developed (characterization)?

Explain how the two (dialect/local color and characterization) affect how good the story turns out to

be for you, the reader.

Finally, make a connection to Elements of Southern Literature.

(Some connections may be a stretch, but see how creative you can be.)ELACC8RL4: The student will determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in

a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.

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Before we go…Answer the following questions to help me

determine your listening/comprehension skills:

1. What was Brer Rabbit eating?2. Whose field was Brer Rabbit eating out of?3. How many times did he trick Brer Bear?4. How did he trick Brer Bear?5. What is the moral of the story?ELACC8RL4: The student will determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in

a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.

Lesson EQ: How can context and background knowledge improve my reading experience?

Grammar

ELACC8RL3: The student will analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision

Lesson EQ: How can I recognize and create the elements of an excellent story?

POP QUIZYour task: Identify the Southern Literature characteristic each of the

following reflects:

1. Slavery2. Corn, cotton, tobacco3. Preacher4. Family reunions5. Yall, fixin, mawnin’

6. Of the five characteristics represented above, write one complete sentence to describe which characteristic makes a text most engaging.

– Ex. I think ________ is the most

ELACC8RL3: The student will analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision

Lesson EQ: How can I recognize and create the elements of an excellent story?

Understanding What Propels a Story

What is plot?

Plot is what happens in the story.

ELACC8RL3: The student will analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision

Lesson EQ: How can I recognize and create the elements of an excellent story?

Applying Your Knowledge• Exposition - introduces the reader to the

setting and characters.• Inciting incident - this event creates the

central conflict or struggle. • The development - part of the story

where the struggle takes place. • The climax - the high point of interest

and suspense in the story.• The resolution - point at which the

conflict is ended, or resolved.

• Reflect on your reading of Mr. Rabbit & Mr. Bear

• Create a plot map to show your understanding of the action in the story.

ELACC8RL3: The student will analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision

Lesson EQ: How can I recognize and create the elements of an excellent story?

What’s next?

• Watch and learn

• Your Task:– Create a narrative based on a memory of a significant

event in your life, perhaps your childhood. Choose an event that will be engaging for readers and that will, at the same time, tell them something about you or about someone who is a significant part of your life. Tell your story dramatically and vividly, giving a clear indication of its autobiographical significance. Implement tonal attitudes and opinions, along with a central idea or lesson.

ELACC8RL3: The student will analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision

Lesson EQ: How can I recognize and create the elements of an excellent story?

Take a look…

ELACC8W3: The student will write a narrative to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant

descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences

How will you be assessed?

• Focus/Organization– 15 points

• Elaboration/Support/Style– 15 points

• Grammar, Usage, Mechanics– 10 points

40 Points Possible

ELACC8W3: The student will write a narrative to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant

descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences

Grammar

Lesson EQ: How can I recognize and create the elements of an excellent story?

• Continue Writing – Your narrative should

be ENGAGING!– Remember the

elements of the plot map.

• Are the events of your story apparent to the reader? Clear? Descriptive?

ELACC8W3: The student will write a narrative to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences

Lesson EQ: How can I recognize and create the elements of an excellent story?

• Peer Edit:– After you write your story, you will share your composition with a partner.– Use this handout to guide your review of your peer’s narrative writing.– Be honest and fair, but don’t be so rude that someone wants to never return to class!

ELACC8W3: The student will write a narrative to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences

Complete the following statements:– A narrative writing is…– The structure of a narrative writing is

most engaging when…– On a scale of 1-10, I give my first

narrative of 8th grade a _____ because…

Lesson EQ: How can I recognize and create the elements of an excellent story?

ELACC8W3: The student will write a narrative to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences

Activator

Quickwrite

What makes a good story?

Minimum of a 4 sentence response to the prompt.

Read

Open up the Blue Literature Book to page 452 so that we can read an

African American Folktale: “Brer Rabbit and Brer Lion”.

What is in this story that keeps you interested, keeps you reading, and

makes it a good story?

Comparison to Uncle Remus “Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear”

Three sentence reflection for each