April 21-22
I can organize writing to make a cohesive whole.
I can score 80% or higher on my dramatic
literature/Animal Farm Test.
I can use close reading strategies in order to interpret
increasingly challenging texts.
I can identify the author’s use of parallel plots and
subplots.
Bell Ringer A Day
George Orwell’s Animal Farm is an
allegory and a satire. You have been
asked to present to an audience of peers
the moral or lessons learned in
Animal Farm. In the presentation, you
must discuss how the lesson or lessons
learned can benefit one’s life. Also, make
sure that you make personal
connections to your own life.
Grade Check
(Both A and B Days)
 As you are working on your test and missing work, I will
call you up to check your grades.
 You will need to fill out the chart and KEEP the chart in
your folder!!!! (We will continue to check your grades
weekly, so you will need to keep your chart).
 Also need to check to see if you have completed your
ILP.
Check…
 You should have the following completed and turned into
the tray:
 Character Symbols- choose 1 character and draw pictures or cut
out pictures from a magazine to represent that character’s
personality. You must have a written explanation for each of
the symbols. (25 points)
 12 Comprehension Questions- questions we completed after our
first reading (24 points)
 Group Activity- Summarize, Question, Connect, Predict, and
Reflect. You should have all 5 tasks completed, otherwise you
and your group will not get full credit. (25 points)
 Literary Analysis- 40ish questions from the margins in the book.
(100 points)
 All of these assignments will be recorded in the
gradebook!!!
A DAY
 You will put your answers into the clickers for the
dramatic literature vocabulary test first.
 Then you will put in your answers for the Animal Farm
Test.
Review Test
 Discuss answers and questions missed.
 Compare pre-test with post-test.
Review Term
 In your own words write a definition for allusion, and
give an example.
Both Days- Vocabulary
Vocabulary- write the following definitions in your notes.
Situational Irony occurs when something happens is the opposite of what
we would normally expect to happen or would find appropriate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqg6RO8c_W0
Dramatic Irony the reader knows something important that some or all of
the characters do not know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZFYuX84n1U
Verbal Irony- when someone says something that is unexpected
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiR-bnCHIYo
Placid- calm or tranquil
Luxuriate- take great pleasure
Premises- house or building and its surrounding property
Consoling- comforting
Hospitality- friendly, caring treatment of guests
Lamb to the Slaughter
 In the Holt Reader, read pages 150-162.
 Complete the questions in the margins as you read.
 Complete the irony chart on page 163.
Review: B Day
 You will have 5 minutes to review your vocabulary.
Trasketball 4B
 4B will play trasketball before taking the test.
Test
 B Day- You will need to complete the dramatic literature
vocabulary test first.
 You will put your answers into the clickers. You will have
about 20 minutes.
 Then you will take the Animal Farm Test and put your
answer into the clickers.
Check…
 You should have the following completed and turned into
the tray:
 Character Symbols- choose 1 character and draw pictures or cut
out pictures from a magazine to represent that character’s
personality. You must have a written explanation for each of
the symbols. (25 points)
 12 Comprehension Questions- questions we completed after our
first reading (24 points)
 Group Activity- Summarize, Question, Connect, Predict, and
Reflect. You should have all 5 tasks completed, otherwise you
and your group will not get full credit. (25 points)
 Literary Analysis- 40ish questions from the margins in the book.
(100 points)
 All of these assignments will be recorded in the
gradebook!!!