Ms. Woodhouse and Ms. Miller
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9.2 The student will produce, analyze, and evaluate auditory,
visual, and written media messages.
10.2 The student will analyze, produce, and examine similarities
and differences between visual and verbal media messages.
10.4 The student will read, comprehend, and analyze literary
texts of different cultures and eras.
11.2 The student will examine how values and points of view are
included and excluded and how media influences beliefs and
behaviors.
11.4 The student will read, comprehend, and analyze
relationships among
American literature, history, and culture.
12.3 The student will apply knowledge of word origins,
derivations, and figurative language to extend vocabulary
development in authentic text.
12.4 The student will read, comprehend, and analyze the
development of literature.
 Given
the Smart board, computer, power
point: students will be able to identify the
basic elements of a short story through note
taking; make comparisons with basic literary
terms to models; and create a plot diagram
based on a short story.
 Motivator:
In your opinion, why are short stories
entertaining? Give at least three reasons.
 Connector:
Today, we are going to identify basic literary
terms.
 Relevancy:
Short stories are entertaining because writers
use basic literary elements to grab the
reader’s attention.
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Hello! You are going to take a pretest on the literary terms
that we are going to take today. Once you have completed
this test, your scores will show what you already know and
what you don’t know.
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At the end of this lesson, you will take a post test. Your
post test should be higher than your pretest scores.
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Click on the link below to take your pretest.
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 Why
is the concept of learning vocabulary
words before reading a selection important?
• What strategies for reading are essential to
comprehending a literary text?
• What plan could be or formula could be used
to understand a reading selection?
Freytag’s Pyramid
(Do not copy this page.)
 Before
reading a story, you must understand
the formula for the creation of a story.
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formula has a series of important
vocabulary words that you must know.
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Exposition: Introduces the characters,
setting, and basic situation.
 2. Rising Action: The problems in a story
that leads to the main event. (This makes
the puzzle to the story.)
 3. Climax: The highest point in a story or
main event.
 4. Falling Action: The characters are starting
to fit the pieces of the puzzle of the story
together.
 5. Denouement/Resolution: The end of the
story.
Before you click on the link below, make sure
that you have the full power point up. After
you have completed this assignment, please
show your score to Ms. Woodhouse or Ms.
Miller for a grade. (Have fun! )
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Vocabulary
1. Theme- The central message in a story.
 2. Plot- Sequence of events in a literary work.
 3. Tone- The writer’s attitude toward his or her
audience and subject.
 4. Point of View- The attitude or outlook of a
narrator or character in a piece of literature.
 5. Symbolism- Anything that stands for or
represents something else.
 6. Mood- (Or atmosphere) Is the feeling created
in the reader by a literary work or passage.
 7. Motif- The reoccurring theme in a story.
 8. Short Story- A brief work of fiction.
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http://www.quia.com/cm/590051.html
What do you remember?
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Based on the short story couple of slides,
create your own plot diagram (Freytag’s
Pyramid). Your plot diagram or pyramid will
describe the following:
1.
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3.
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5.
Exposition (Setting)
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
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A rich woman sat up late one night carding and preparing
wool, while all the family and servants were asleep. Suddenly
a knock was given at the door, and a voice called, "Open!
open!“
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"Who is there?" said the woman of the house.
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"I am the Witch of one Horn," was answered.
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The mistress, supposing that one of her neighbors had called
and required assistance, opened the door, and a woman
entered, having in her hand a pair of wool-carders, and
bearing a horn on her forehead, as if growing there. She sat
down by the fire in silence, and began to card the wool with
violent haste. Suddenly she paused, and said aloud: "Where
are the women? they delay too long."
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Then a second knock came to the door, and a voice called as
before, "Open! open!“
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The mistress felt herself obliged to rise and open to the call,
and immediately a second witch entered, having two horns on
her forehead, and in her hand a wheel for spinning wool.
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"Give me place," she said; "I am the Witch of the two Horns,"
and she began to spin as quick as lightning.
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And so the knocks went on, and the call was heard, and the
witches entered, until at last twelve women sat round the
fire - the first with one horn, the last with twelve horns.
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Then a second knock came to the door, and a voice called as
before, "Open! open!“
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The mistress felt herself obliged to rise and open to the call, and
immediately a second witch entered, having two horns on her
forehead, and in her hand a wheel for spinning wool.
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"Give me place," she said; "I am the Witch of the two Horns," and
she began to spin as quick as lightning.
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And so the knocks went on, and the call was heard, and the
witches entered, until at last twelve women sat round the fire the first with one horn, the last with twelve horns.
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And they carded the thread, and turned their spinningwheels, and wound and wove, all singing together an ancient
rhyme, but no word did they speak to the mistress of the
house. Strange to hear, and frightful to look upon, were these
twelve women, with their horns and their wheels; and the
mistress felt near to death, and she tried to rise that she
might call for help, but she could not move, nor could she
utter a word or a cry, for the spell of the witches was upon
her.
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Then one of them called to her in Irish, and said, "Rise,
woman, and make us a cake."
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Then the mistress searched for a vessel to bring water from the
well that she might mix the meal and make the cake, but she
could find none.
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And they said to her, "Take a sieve and bring water in it.“
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And she took the sieve and went to the well - but the water
poured from it, and she could fetch none for the cake, and she
sat down by the well and wept.
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Then a voice came by her and said, "Take yellow clay and moss,
and bind them together, and plaster the sieve so that it will
hold.“
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This she did, and the sieve held the water for the cake - and the
voice said again:
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"Return, and when thou comest to the north angle of the
house, cry aloud three times and say, 'The mountain of the
Fenian women and the sky over it is all on fire.'“
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And she did so.
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When the witches inside heard the call, a great and terrible
cry broke from their lips, and they rushed forth with wild
lamentations and shrieks, and fled away to Slievenamon,
where was their chief abode. But the Spirit of the Well bade
the mistress of the house to enter and prepare her home
against the enchantments of the witches if they returned
again.
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And first, to break their spells, she sprinkled the water in
which she had washed her child's feet, the feet-water, outside
the door on the threshold - secondly, she took the cake which
in her absence the witches had made of meal mixed with the
blood drawn from the sleeping family, and she broke the cake
in bits, and placed a bit in the mouth of each sleeper, and
they were restored - and she took the cloth they had woven,
and placed it half in and half out of the chest with the
padlock - and lastly, she secured the door with a great
crossbeam fastened in the jambs, so that the witches could
not enter, and having done these things she waited.
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Not long were the witches in coming back, and they raged
and called for vengeance.
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"Open! open!" they screamed; "open, feet-water!“
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"I cannot," said the feet-water; "I am scattered on the ground,
and my path is down to the Lough.“
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"Open, open, wood and trees and beam!" they cried to the door.
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"I cannot," said the door, "for the beam is fixed in the jambs and I
have no power to move.“
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"Open, open, cake that we have made and mingled with blood!"
they cried again.
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"I cannot," said the cake, "for I am broken and bruised, and my
blood is on the lips of the sleeping children."
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Then the witches rushed through the air with great cries, and
fled back to Slievenamon, uttering strange curses on the Spirit of
the Well, who had wished their ruin - but the woman and the
house were left in peace, and a mantle dropped by one of the
witches in her flight was kept hung up by the mistress in memory
of that night; and this mantle was kept by the same family from
generation to generation for five hundred years after. (The End)
 1.
What is the theme of this story? Please
write your answer in complete sentences.
 2. Describe the tone of this story. Please
write your answer in complete sentences.
 3. Define “motif.” Did this story have a
motif? Explain your answer. Please write your
answer in complete sentences.
 4. What was the mood of the story? Please
write your answer in complete sentences.
 5. From whose point of view was this story
told?
 You
are now going to complete a pretest
based on this lesson. I hope you have
enjoyed this self paced study guide for the
SOL test.
 Click
the link below for your post test.
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