Week of April 4

Membean 45 minutes

Read Theory 100 points

Daily Grammar Practice/Membean/Read Theory

(Please complete the assigned DGP ahead of class if you do not have computer access and need the transition time to complete Membean or Read Theory.)

DGP Link

https://sites.google.com/a/pender.k12.nc.us/sherry_hughes/home/daily-grammar-practice-info

Sentence This Week: molly cried when she found out spring break had ended

Vocabulary

Define the following words:

• 1. collaborate

  2. commend

  3. comply

  4. diatribe

  5. impudent

  6. palatable

  7. pervade

  8. proposition

  9. ransom

  10. surreptitiously

  11. summit

  12. apparition

  13. undeleterious

  14. whoop

  15. peremptory

Vocab Runway Show

Diffuse the text on pages 70-79. (Green Lit Book)

“The Ransom of Red Chief” page 69 (Green Lit Book)

Prereading activities:

Create a word web discussing what the word ransom means to you.

Compare crime solving techniques from 1910 to present day. You may want to use a Venn Diagram to organize your information.

Explain irony. Discuss the different kinds of irony.

During Reading:

Make predictions as you read the story. Make notes whether your predictions are how the story turns out. Use these notes to begin your analysis of irony in the story.

Make notes on the plot of this story. (Create a chart with exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.)

After Reading:

What reason do Bill and Sam have for kidnapping Ebenezer Dorset’s son?

What are some of the things Red Chief does to annoy Bill?

What does Red Chief’s father think of him?

How do the criminals change as the story is told?

Judging from how Red Chief behaves in the story, what sort of person do you think he will be when he grows up? Use evidence from the text to support your answer. (Think about Red Chief’s reaction to the kidnapping, his relationship with his father, and the games he likes to play.)

Discuss the style of the writer O. Henry in this story. (Focus=Vocabulary)

Extension:

Create a journal by the character of Red Chief that focuses on the kidnapping from his point of view.

Create a movie poster for this story. Include your choice of modern day actors/actresses for the parts. Be ready to discuss your choices.

Find another story in which a supposedly helpless creature or person thwarts the evil intentions of a stronger enemy. (Check fables from Africa or the Americas.) How is the plot similar? and different?

http://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/277912#284874.toc

http://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/399460

http://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/353818

http://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/275500#203942.toc

http://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/399460

http://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/272747

http://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/276137#205804.toc

Film Version:

Discuss whether the film portrays characters in the same way you visualized them. Note how specific images in the film are different from what you pictured in your mind as you read the story.

Monday: Vocabulary and Prereading activities

Tuesday: Read story aloud. Answer questions.

Wesnesday: Extension Activities

Thursday: Video, All questions and assignments due

Friday: Review, Library, Game activity for students with no work missing