Narrative Summaries and Cartoon Vocabulary Your poster board will feature the following four sections: 1. Create a visual summary for Freak the Mighty. 1. Compose a written summary of Freak the Mighty. 2. You will have six squares: one square for each plot element (two for the rising action). 2. Your summary should be five paragraphs in length—one paragraph for each plot element. 3. Each square should contain a visual demonstration of a key scene and should be accompanied by a caption that explains the scene. 3. Use my example as a guide, but do not copy my work. 4. Use my example as a guide, but do not copy my work. 5. Finally, go back and highlight all of the nouns within your summary. 4. Finally, go back and highlight all of the verbs in your written summary. 5. Highlight the verbs in two different colors: one for regular verbs and one for irregular verbs. 6. Highlight the nouns in three different colors: one for common nouns, one for proper nouns, and one for collective nouns. 1. Create a cartoon vocabulary for one of the Freak the Mighty buzz words. 1. Create a second cartoon vocabulary for another one of the Freak the Mighty buzz words. 2. Define the word. 2. Define the word. 3. Identify a link for the word. 3. Identify a link for the word. 4. Create a visual demonstration that shows the link between the buzz word and the link. 4. Create a visual demonstration that shows the link between the buzz word and the link. 5. Include a caption that explains the link. 5. Include a caption that explains the link. 6. Construct three sentences that contain the word and that contain context clues. 6. Construct three sentences that contain the word and that contain context clues. 7. Finally, go back and highlight each adjective within your cartoon vocabulary. 7. Next, go back and highlight all of the prepositions within your cartoon vocabulary. 8. Highlight the adjectives in two different colors: one for proper adjectives and one for common adjectives. 8. Finally, go back and underline the prepositional phrases. Rubric for Narrative Summaries and Cartoon Vocabularies Description Does your visual summary feature 6 key scenes that represent each plot element (2 for the rising action)? Is your written summary at least one typed page in length? Does your written summary contain five paragraphs—one paragraph for every plot element? Does your project contain two cartoon vocabularies—one each for a buzz word from Freak the Mighty, which fully follow the directions? Has your work been edited and revised to eliminate common grammatical errors? Do your sentences flow well and feature a variety of sentences and accurate word choices? Did you accurately highlight and differentiate the examples of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions/prepositional phrases? Overall, is your work presentable: neat, organized, advanced, insightful, and attractive to an audience? Did you present your work in a clear, concise, and confident manner, meaning that the audience could clearly hear and understand you? Overall, do your summaries capture the key details within the novel? Total Comments: Points Possible 6 5 5 10 5 5 5 5 4 10 60 Points Earned Theme and Main Idea PLEAs and Cartoon Vocabulary Your poster board will feature the following four sections: 1. Compose a PLEA paragraph that expresses the main idea of Freak the Mighty. 1. Compose a PLEA paragraph that expresses the theme of Freak the Mighty. 2. Be sure to express the main idea, provide background information, and support your point with valid evidence and analysis. 2. Be sure to express the theme, provide background information, and support your point with valid evidence and analysis. 3. For your evidence, quote one example and paraphrase/summarize another example. 3. For your evidence, quote one example and paraphrase/summarize another example. 4. Use my example as a guide, but do not copy my work. 6. Use my example as a guide, but do not copy my work. 5. Finally, go back and highlight all of the nouns within your paragraph. 7. Finally, go back and highlight all of the verbs in your paragraph. 6. Highlight the nouns in three different colors: one for common nouns, one for proper nouns, and one for collective nouns. 8. Highlight the verbs in two different colors: one for regular verbs and one for irregular verbs. 1. Create a cartoon vocabulary for the term main idea. 1. Create a second cartoon vocabulary for the term theme. 2. Define the term. 2. Define the term. 3. Identify a link for the term. 3. Identify a link for the term. 4. Create a visual demonstration that shows the link between the term and the link. 4. Create a visual demonstration that shows the link between the term and the link. 5. Include a caption that explains the link. 5. Include a caption that explains the link. 6. Construct three sentences that contain the term and that contain context clues. 6. Next, go back and highlight all of the prepositions within your cartoon vocabulary. 7. Finally, go back and highlight each adjective within your cartoon vocabulary. 7. Finally, go back and underline the prepositional phrases. 8. Highlight the adjectives in two different colors: one for proper adjectives and one for common adjectives. Rubric for Theme and Main Idea PLEAs and Cartoon Vocabularies Description Points Possible Do your PLEA paragraphs clearly present the main 10 idea and theme of Freak the Mighty in the form of points? Are your points in both PLEAs supported by valid 5 evidence and insightful analysis? Do your Links in both paragraphs clearly provide 5 the TAGS information and lead into the evidence? Is your evidence properly cited (documented)? 5 Does your project contain two cartoon 10 vocabularies—one each for the main idea and theme, which fully follow the directions? Has your work been edited and revised to 5 eliminate common grammatical errors? Do your sentences flow well and feature a variety 5 of sentences and accurate word choices? Did you accurately highlight and differentiate the 5 examples of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions/prepositional phrases? Overall, is your work presentable: neat, organized, 5 advanced, insightful, and attractive to an audience? Did you present your work in a clear, concise, and 5 confident manner, meaning that the audience could clearly hear and understand you? Total 60 Comments: Points Earned Literary Devices and Leveled Questions Your poster board will feature the following four sections: 1. From Freak the Mighty, quote and cite examples of the following literary terms: A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O. P. Q. Simile Metaphor Personification Idiom Hyperbole Suspense Foreshadowing Allusion Onomatopoeia Alliteration Repetition Symbol First-person perspective bias/unreliability Tone Mood Direct characterization Indirect characterization 2. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy my work. Find different examples of each term. 1. Pick another three terms from the first square. 2. Create a visual demonstration of each of these terms. 3. Each visual demonstration should depict the feeling produced, the imagery created, or the reason this was included in the novel. 4. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy my work. 1. Pick ten of the literary terms from the first square and explain the examples you gave for each. 2. Be sure to provide a thorough description of each term. Explain the effect, meaning the imagery created, the feeling produced, or the reason this was included in the novel. 3. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy my work. Do not use the same examples that I used. 4. Finally, go back and highlight all of the nouns within your summary with one color, and highlight the verbs with another color. 5. Highlight your nouns using three different colors: one for common nouns, one for proper nouns, and one for collective nouns. 6. Highlight the verbs using two different colors (not the same as the nouns): one for regular verbs and one for irregular verbs. 1. Create leveled questions for Freak the Mighty. A. One level 1 B. Two level 2 C. One level 3 2. Answer each question in the form of a point. 3. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy my work. 4. Look back at your leveled questions and answers and highlight all prepositions in one color and all adjectives in another color. 5. Highlight each preposition and underline the phrase it creates. 6. Using different colors, highlight all of the adjectives using two colors: one for common and one for proper. Rubric for Literary Devices and Leveled Questions Description Did you quote accurate examples for each literary term? Does your description for each of your examples clearly explain the examples and the reasons that each literary term was used? Does your visual description for each of your examples clearly demonstrate the examples and the reasons that each literary term was used? Are your examples properly cited (documented)? Does your project contain accurately written and answered leveled questions that follow the instructions? Has your work been edited and revised to eliminate common grammatical errors? Points Possible 10 10 5 5 10 5 Did you accurately highlight and differentiate the examples of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions/prepositional phrases? 5 Overall, is your work presentable: neat, organized, advanced, insightful, and attractive to an audience? Did you present your work in a clear, concise, and confident manner, meaning that the audience could clearly hear and understand you? Total 5 Comments: 5 60 Points Earned Tone, Mood, and Leveled questions Your poster board will feature the following four sections: 1. Find, quote, and cite, ten examples that feature tone from Rodman Philbrick or from one of his characters in Freak the Mighty. 1. Pick seven of the examples from the first square and describe the mood that is produced for the reader. Use specific words from the tone vocabulary list that I gave you. 2. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy my work. Find different examples. 2. Be sure also to explain the effect of the mood. For example, what does it foreshadow, or how does it produce suspense, or how does it provide characterization, etc.? 3. Finally, go back and highlight all of the nouns within your examples. 4. Highlight the nouns in three different colors: one for common nouns, one for proper nouns, and one for collective nouns. 3. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy my work. 4. Finally, go back and highlight all of the verbs in your descriptions. 5. Highlight the verbs using two different colors: one for regular verbs and one for irregular verbs. 1. Pick three examples from the first square and visually demonstrate the mood that is produced. 2. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy my work. 1. Create leveled questions for Freak the Mighty. 2. One level 1 3. Two level 2 4. One level 3 5. Answer each question in the form of a point. 6. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy my work. 7. Highlight each preposition and underline the phrase it creates. 8. Using different colors, highlight all of the adjectives using two colors: one for common and one for proper. Rubric for Tone, Mood, and Leveled Questions Description Did you quote accurate examples of tone? Does your description for each of your examples clearly describe the tone, the mood it produces, and the effect of this mood? Does your visual description for each of your examples clearly demonstrate the attitude, the mood it produces, and the effect of this mood? Are your examples properly cited (documented)? Does your project contain accurately written and answered leveled questions that follow the instructions? Has your work been edited and revised to eliminate common grammatical errors? Points Possible 10 10 5 5 10 5 Did you accurately highlight and differentiate the examples of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions/prepositional phrases? 5 Overall, is your work presentable: neat, organized, advanced, insightful, and attractive to an audience? Did you present your work in a clear, concise, and confident manner, meaning that the audience could clearly hear and understand you? Total 5 Comments: 5 60 Points Earned Narrator Point of View Your poster board will feature the following four sections: 1. Pick a scene from Freak the Mighty, and write it in the first-person perspective from another character’s point of view—not from Max’s perspective. 1. Pick a scene from Freak the Mighty, and write it in the third-person-limited perspective. 2. Begin by defining the perspective. 3. Be sure to provide dialogue, and keep it in the form featured in the novel. 3. Be sure to provide dialogue, and keep it in the form featured in the novel. 2. Begin by defining the perspective. 4. Your scene should be a page in length. 4. Your scene should be a page in length. 5. Finally, go back and highlight all of the verbs in your scene. 5. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy my work. 6. Highlight the verbs using two different colors (not the same as the nouns): one for regular verbs and one for irregular verbs. 6. Finally, go back and highlight all of the nouns within your scene. 7. Highlight the nouns in three different colors: one for common nouns, one for proper nouns, and one for collective nouns. 1. Pick a scene from Freak the Mighty, and write it in the third-person-omniscient perspective. 1. Pick a scene from Freak the Mighty, and write it in the third-person-objective perspective. 2. Begin by defining the perspective. 2. Begin by defining the perspective. 3. Be sure to provide dialogue, and keep it in the form featured in the novel. 3. Be sure to provide dialogue, and keep it in the form featured in the novel. 3. Your scene should be a page in length. 4. Your scene should be a page in length. 4. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy my work. 5. Refer to my example as a guide, but don’t copy my work. 5. Finally, go back and highlight each adjective within your cartoon vocabulary. 7. Look back at your leveled questions and answers and highlight all prepositions in one color and all adjectives in another color. 6. Highlight the adjectives in two different colors: one for proper adjectives and one for common adjectives. 8. Highlight each preposition and underline the phrase it creates. 9. Using different colors, highlight all of the adjectives using two colors: one for common and one for proper. Rubric for Narrative Summaries and Cartoon Vocabularies Description Points Possible Did you define each perspective before you began 5 each scene? Is each scene at least 1 page in length? 5 Does each scene feature correctly punctuated and 5 formatted dialogue? Does each scene demonstrate the correct point of 10 view? Has your work been edited and revised to 10 eliminate common grammatical errors? Do your sentences flow well and feature a variety 5 of sentences and accurate word choices? Did you accurately highlight and differentiate the 10 examples of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions/prepositional phrases? Overall, is your work presentable: neat, organized, 5 advanced, insightful, and attractive to an audience? Did you present your work in a clear, concise, and 5 confident manner, meaning that the audience could clearly hear and understand you? Total 60 Comments: Points Earned