ELA - 2018/19

Reading Booklet ELA EXAM

Exam Essay Writing:

Friday (May 31st) one period

Monday Two periods

Tuesday one period

Poetic Devices

https://www.poetry4kids.com/lessons/poetry-dictionary-for-kids/

In the Heat of the Night Chapter Questions (link)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxb4Jb5B0pk&t=1510s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAGV1WxFkos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLAp7Ib4Ycg&t=41s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFlVU6dTq8w

Term 2 Assignments:

Of Mice and Men novel study

Of Mice and Men questions (up to chapter 4)

Spelling words (up to letter E)

https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/07/19/there-are-nine-different-types-of-humour-which-one-are-you_a_23036626/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhIhnVCwxrI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLAp7Ib4Ycg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtttXC9tFPU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpd-7KsbIhM

Short Story Reading Unit

Lamb to the Slaughter Video

The Interlopers audio video

The Monkey's Paw video Audio

Leiningen vs the Ants (Audio)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXjuE_41taY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Er0sCdcZ3E&t=577s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEN0EscKTmQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLPqnc7Fwkw

Activities

1) Read the story

2) Story Summary: who, what, where, when, why?

3) Briefly outline the plot.

4) Provide a list of "all" the characters.

5) Who's the main character? Provide a character profile for the main character outlining their character traits.

(NAME, AGE, HEIGHT, WEIGHT, BIRTH DATE, HAIR, EYES, BIRTHPLACE, OTHER FACIAL FEATURES, OTHER APPEARANCE DETAILS, DRESS (Style, colors), DESCRIPTION OF HOME, DOMINANT CHARACTER TRAIT, SECONDARY CHARACTER TRAIT, BEST FRIEND, OTHER FRIENDS, ENEMIES, FAMILY, EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND, TALENTS, AND HOBBIES)

6) Who's the protagonist and the antagonist? Why?

https://supereasystorytelling.com/definitions/definition-antagonist.html

https://supereasystorytelling.com/definitions/protagonist-definition-examples.html

7) What's the conflict? Write about the conflict resolution (Climax).

8) Did the conclusion sum up all loose ends? Why or why not?

Short Story Writing Unit

A short story is a “short” piece of fiction with strong elements of character, setting, and plot. Short stories may take many different forms ranging from folktales to mysteries. This assignment is designed to challenge your creativity by directly concentrating on the specific elements of a short story.

Introduction:

While introducing the main character, write five introductions that provide a hint to the setting, plot, and conflict. This section will be written in the form of a short story and should be between four to six sentences in length. Three of the introductions should be written in third person.

Conflict and Climax

Describe and create a conflict and conflict resolution (climax) for five stories.

Outline the protagonist, antagonist, and the struggle between the two people or things in the short story. Describe the conflict resolution (climax).

Example: The Hunger Games

Conflict · Katniss must endure numerous deadly ordeals, navigate complex personal relationships, and learn to control how others perceive her in order to survive the Hunger Games.

Climax · Having outlasted the other tributes, Katniss and Peeta threaten suicide rather than fight one another after a rule change turns them from allies into adversaries. (SparkNotes LLC)

Include a story title for each.

Movie Reviews

Unbreakable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltbFr8M-n5E&t=6447s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ2kkmUdnwo

Capitalization Rules

https://webapps.towson.edu/ows/capitalization_rules.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtSu_QTX8JQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDXdMmLZGxI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfdqJIUzBNQ&list=RDPfdqJIUzBNQ#t=2

Cheat Sheet of 20 Common Poetic Devices

Figurative writing or speech not meant to be interpreted literally but used to create Language: vivid expressions

Imagery: a word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses

Simile: a figure of speech in which “like” or “as” is used to make a comparison of two basically unlike ideas

Metaphor: a figure of speech which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else

Extended Metaphor: differs from a regular metaphor in that several comparisons are made and the metaphor sustains the comparison for several lines of the entire poem

Personification: a type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics

Hyperbole: an exaggeration

Alliteration: the repetition of initial consonant sounds

Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants

Consonance: the repetition in two or more words of final consonants

Onomatopoeia: the use of words that imitate sounds

Dialect: form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group

Allusion: a reference to a well-known person, place, event, and literary work

Symbolism: literary device where something stands for or represents something else

Repetition: the use, more than once, of any element of language – a sound, a word, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence

Meter: the rhythmical pattern of a poem that is determined by the number and types of stresses, or beats, in each line

Rhyme: the repetition of sounds at the end of words

Internal Rhyme: occurs when the rhyming words appear in the same line

Rhyme Scheme: the regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem that is indicated by using different letters of the alphabet for each new rhyme

Stanza: is a formal division of lines in a poem, considered a unit. Stanzas are sometimes named according to the number of lines found in them: couplet-2, tercet-3; quatrain-4; cinquain-5 etc.)