Summer Reading 2014. The Story A boy is hurt in a bicycle accident. The ambulance driver rushes the...
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The Story
A boy is hurt in a bicycle accident. The ambulance driver rushes the boy to a hospital and calls the child's father, Dr. Smith. Dr. Smith meets the ambulance at the emergency room and becomes hysterical when he sees his injured son. In the operating room, where the boy is taken for surgery, Dr. Smith gazes into the child's face, then says, "I'm glad this is not my son."
Plot
ExpositionForeshadowingInciting ForceConflictRising ActionCrisisClimaxFalling ActionResolution (Denouement)
Theme
1. Feelings of the main character2. Thoughts and conversations3. What the main character does4. Actions or events
Language
IMAGERYFIGURATIVE LANGUAGE– Simile– Metaphor– Alliteration– Personification– Onomatopoeia– Hyperbole
Tone/Mood/Symbolism
Tone - attitudeMood - feeling
SYMBOLISM - Anything that suggests a meaning beyond the obvious.
A Day At the Zoo
• Last Saturday, Kerry and four other children arrived early at the zoo so they could be the first ones in line (each child has a different favorite type of animal that he or she was anxious to see). As they waited in line, each child received a complimentary Mylar balloon with a different design on it.
The Scenario
Two of the children - Johan and Mario - are boys, and three - Kerry, Lani, and Naomi - are girls. Can you determine the order (first, second, third, fourth, or fifth) each
child stood in line, each child's favorite type of animal (one child likes the chimpanzees), and the design (one is a rainbow) on the balloon each received?
1. The girl whose favorite animals are the tigers (who isn't Naomi) was third in line. Her balloon did not have hearts or stripes. 2. Johan (who was not last in line) was standing immediately behind a boy. Lani's favorite animals are neither the tigers nor the zebras. 3. Neither Lani's nor Naomi's balloon was either the one with hearts or the one with stripes. The balloon with stripes wasn't Mario's. 4. The one whose favorite animals are the zebras, who isn't the one who received the balloon with swirls, was fourth in line. The one who received the balloon with polka dots likes the lions the most. Johan isn't the one whose favorite animals are the giraffes.
Order Child Animal Balloon
1st Mario Giraffe heart
2nd Johan Chimp stripes
3rd Kerry Tiger swirls
4th Naomi Zebra rainbow
5th Lani Lion Polka-dots
Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crownAnd Jill came tumbling after.
Up Jack got, and home did trot As fast as he could caper
He went to bed and bound his headWith vinegar and brown paper.
Humpty DumptyHumpty Dumpty sat on the wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.All the king's horses
And all the king's menCouldn't put Humpty Dumpty
Together again.Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.The more the girls cried,
The harder they tried,To put Humpty Dumpty
Together again.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horsesAnd all the king's men
Finally put himTogether again
Hey Diddle Diddle
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon,
The little dog laughed to see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
Wolfby Billy Collins
A wolf is reading a book of fairy tales.The moon hangs over the forest, a lamp.
He is not assuming a human position,say, cross-legged against a tree,
as he would in a cartoon.This is a real wolf, standing on all fours,
his rich fur bristling in the night air,his head bent over the book open on the ground.
He does not sit down for the words would be too far away to be legible,and it is with difficulty that he turns
each page with his nose and forepaws.When he finishes the last talehe lies down in pine needles.
He thinks about what he has read,the stories passing over his mind,like the clouds crossing the moon.
A zigzag of wind shakes down hazelnuts.The eyes of owls yellow in the branches.The wolf now paces restlessly in circlesaround the book until he is absorbed
by the power of its narration,making him one of its illustrations,
a small paper wolf, flat as print.Later that night, lost in a town of pigs,he knocks over houses with his breath.
© Billy CollinsQuestions About Angels. William Morrow & Co., 1991.
The Three Little Pigs – alternative version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m75aEhm-BYw
HOMEWORK – Nursery Rhyme Story
• Choose one nursery rhyme and write a two-page story that acts as background, alternative perspective, or follow-up.
• Your story must have at least one major and one minor character. • Your mystery must demonstrate the 8 elements of plot and have at
least one example of conflict. • Your writing must be clear and understandable; you must at least
attempt to create a mood and indicate your tone. • There must be some evidence of spectacle in your story. • If you include “good” figurative language, you will receive extra credit. • Avoid violence. • AUDIENCE: Kindergarten class. Knowing the purpose of your story
and your audience, how will you tell your story?????
Peer Editing
1. Is the main character(s) dynamic? Why/why not.2. Does the plot exhibit clear exposition, inciting action, conflict, rising action, crisis, climax, falling action, resolution? Why/why not?3. What point of view is used? Is it effective?4. What spectacle is there? Is it effective?5. Will the language appeal to a Kindergarten student?
Why/why not?6. What suggestions would you make to enhance the
story?