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Unit Information and Due Dates

Unit Information

Stories included:

"Fish Cheeks"
"Song of the Trees"
"Mason-Dixon Memory"
"Barrio Boy"
"Miss Awful"

Students MUST complete the following assignments for ALL stories.

1. Guiding Questions
2. Thought Questions
3. Theme Analysis: Identification and analysis of the theme of the story including the application of the theme to life.

SENSORY LANGUAGE
(This will be started in class with a model and teacher guidance.)
Do not panic because this is beyond the unit packet. We'll discuss it later.

1. Choose a passage in the story that strikes you for its effective use of Description / sensory language / imagery. Copy it into your notebook.

2. Identify and explain the mood / feeling that the passage created in you / in the reader.

3. Circle the words in the passage you copied that particularly generate / cause / create those feelings in the reader.

4. Identify what you think the author's purpose was in creating this mood. What was (s)he trying to accomplish?

TEST DATES

TBD
Open Response on one of the major concepts in unit
Theme section, as time allows

General Story Comprehension section
Description section
Conflict section

Vocabulary section of the test on ONE of the stories

Due Dates for questions and quizzes

"Mason-Dixon Memory"

"Song of the Trees"

"Barrio Boy"

"Miss Awful"

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Updated: Jan 5, 2009

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