December 9, 2013
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature
Objective: To read chapter one while looking for
character developments and literary elements.
Answer the following question in 2-3 sentences in your notebook:
Have you ever tried to join or fit in
but been rejected by a person or
group? How did that make you feel,
and what did you do about it? What
were the consequences?
A whirligig is an
object/ornament/or toy that
spins or whirls, or has at
least one piece that spins or
whirls. Whirligigs are also
known as pinwheels,
weathervanes, spinners,
whirly. Whirligigs are most
commonly powered by the
wind.
Here are some very common-looking ones.
What you will know and be able to do after the Whirligig Unit:
* Identify, use, and correctly punctuate sentences with conjunctions
* Eloquently discuss literature in a small group
* Independently identify similes, metaphors, imagery and personification
* Use context clues to define unknown words
* Read non-fiction pieces and make connections to novel
* Write organized paragraphs with adequate content
* Review and be able to discuss theme and conflict
12/10/13
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting
Literature
Objective: To discuss chapter one
To write thorough and detailed
paragraphs
Find the fourteen errors in the summative sentence below:
Brent bishop the new kid in 11th grade has just comitted
sociale suiside at the party he counted on to make him cool
drunk enraged and humiliated he desides real sucide is the
only future he wants
12.11.12
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature
Objective: To read chapter two while looking for character
developments and literary elements.
Get your journal out. Have it on the corner of your desk.
Answer the following question in 2-3 sentences in your notebook:
What is an Ouija board? What is it
used for? How does it work? Have
you ever used one or heard of
someone using it? Tell me about it.
12.12.13
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature
Objective: To write thorough and detailed paragraphs,
To discuss chapter two.
Find the thirteen errors in the
summative sentence below:
On a very cold clear windy day alexandra is
trying to convinse steph a fellow 8th grader to
come with her to practise gided imagary
12.13.13
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting
Literature
Objective: To read chapter three while looking
for character developments and literary
elements.
Answer the following question in 2-3 sentences in your notebook:
whirligigs in action
Read the fact sheet in your study guide entitled "Teens and
Alcohol".
Write a reaction to the information you read. What did you
already know? What surprised you? What did you learn?
12.16.13
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature
Objective: To discuss chapter three
To write thorough and detailed paragraphs
Find the five errors in the
summative sentence below:
brent is living his 2nd life now the life
that came from Leas death and began
more whirligigs in action
with the crash
12/17/12
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and
Interpreting Literature
Objective: To discuss figurative language in the
novel. To write a paragraph response.
Using two vocabulary words (#s 1-9 on your chart),
write a sentence about the best part of chapters 1-3.
Underline the two words in your sentence.
conjunction: joins words, phrases or sentences
coordinating conjunctions (AKA FANBOYS)
For
And
Nor
But
Or
Yet
So
When they join two sentences, they have
to be with a COMMA!
Dan sees Santa, and he sits on his lap.
Dominique bought presents, but she ran
out of wrapping paper!
subordinating conjunctions- join an independent
clause (sentence) to another clause (sentence)
after
although
as
because
before
even
even though
if
since
so that
though
unless
until
when
whenever
while
•The trick is punctuating them. If the
subordinating conjunction comes first in the
sentence, a comma is needed after the clause. If it
comes in the middle of the two sentences, no
comma is needed.
•For instance:
I want a puppy for Christmas because I love dogs.
no comma
Because I love dogs, I want a puppy for Christmas.
comma needed
In your paragraph response, incorporate one of each type of
conjunction
1. Underline the coordinating conjunction
2. Circle the subordinating conjunction, and double check you
punctuated it correctly.
QUIZ- paragraph response
Assess it using a rubric & highlighter/ staple & submit
Complete figurative language activity- must be
colored! - can be completed as HW
12/18/13
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature
Objective: To read chapter four while looking for
character developments and literary elements.
Answer the following question in 2-3 sentences in your notebook:
Is there a certain animal or creature you connect yourself
with, one that you feel has the same essence as your
character? With what about this creature do you
connect? How are you like this animal? How are you
different?
12/19/13
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature
Objective: To discuss plot, character, and theme
in chapter four; to write detailed paragraphs
shearwater attack
shearwater footage
Before you hand in your homework, circle the conjunction in each
quote you recorded.
Now, find the ten errors in the summative sentence below:
A puerto rican man is driveing his streetsweeper he never
saw a street sweeper until, he was 11 and he thinks about the
sheerwater bird while he drives
With a partner, use your
five flags and find/flag
conjunctions in chapter
four. Be sure you know the
kind of conjunction each
one is.
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature
Objective: To read chapter five while looking for
character developments and literary elements.
Whirligig Festival
December 20, 2013
Before you hand in your "Conjunctions Hunt" homework, circle the conjunction in
each quote you recorded.
Answer the following question in 2-3 sentences in
your notebook:
As you can tell from the title of this chapter, the stars will be
important. Before you read the chapter, write down what you know
about the constellations and stars. Hypothesize why the stars may be
important to Brent.
1/2/14
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature
Objective: To discuss plot, character, and theme in chapter five
Find the seven errors in the
summative sentence below:
brent is learning stars from the constelations
gide he bought and he looks from the book to
the sky and back saying there names allowed
this is a
concertina
January 3, 2014
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting
Literature
Objective: To read chapter six while
looking for character developments
and literary elements.
Answer the following question in 2-3 sentences in your notebook:
Write about a time where someone made an incorrect
assumption about you based on your gender, age, race,
religion, or any other stereotypical factor.
January 6, 2013
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting
Literature
Objective: To write thorough and
detailed paragraphs
To discuss chapter six
Find the fourteen errors in the
summative sentences below:
the class is suposed to write about what they did over summer vacation
but the student clames my summer was like being sick to your stomack.
First you feel worser and worse. Then you think you might throw up.
then you know you have to. Then you do.
Topic sentences…
1. Anthony is a fifth grade adopted Asian student who
has a rough summer.
2. Anthony had an intense character versus self conflict
in this chapter.
3. Anthony encounters Brent’s whirligig while camping
with his family.
4. Stereotypes are broad generalizations about a group
of people.
5. I had a very busy summer.
6. My summer was horrible, but it ended in a positive
way.
John Henry is an American folk hero, famous for having raced against a
steam powered hammer and won, only to die in victory with his
hammer in his hand. He has been the subject of numerous
songs, stories, plays, and novels.
1/7/14
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature
Objective: To discuss figurative language in the
novel. To write a paragraph response.
Using two vocabulary words (#s 10-18 on your chart),
write a sentence about the best part of chapters 4-6.
Underline the two words in your sentence.
Today's agenda:
Paragraph 4-6
Peer assessment (a classmate grades it- don't forget comment
section)- staple & submit
Figurative Language Activity (don't forget quotes & color)
Start homework: Fleischman Biography-Conjunctions
January 8, 2014
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting
Literature
Objective: To read chapter seven while
looking for character developments and
literary elements
six fantastic whirligigs
Submit your homeworkAnswer the following question in 2-3 sentences in your notebook:
The United States is the third largest country in the world
geographically, after Russia and Canada. With 9,629,091 square
kilometers of land, there is bound to be major differences in regions.
Often, you will hear an area be referred to as a belt. Read the
handout Belts of the United States. Which areas have you been to or
know about? What is new or surprising to you from the reading?
1/9/14
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature
Objective: To read chapter seven while
looking for character developments
and literary elements.
Find the eight errors in the
summative sentence below:
he gets off the bus to look around el paso a
mising child flier reminds him of Leah who is
permenently missing
In today's journal entries, incorporate one of each type of
conjunction
1. Underline the coordinating conjunction
2. Circle the correlative conjunctions (two circles)
3. Box the subordinating conjunction, and double check you
punctuated it correctly.
1/10/14
1.3 Reading, Analyzing,
Interpreting Literature
Objective: To read chapter eight
while looking for character
developments and literary
elements.
Answer the following question in 23 sentences in your notebook:
Most of you are familiar with the Holocaust, from your
study last year. Summarize what you know about the
Holocaust and Auschwitz.
1/13/14
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and
Interpreting Literature
Objective: To discuss chapter 8
Find the eleven errors in the sentence below:
when ever Jenny is alone in the house with Grandma she is
allert to her presense each moment her Grandma is old, and
fragil and Jenny is afraid that something might happen to her
In today's journal entries, incorporate one of each
type of conjunction
1. Underline the coordinating conjunction
2. Circle the correlative conjunctions (two circles)
3. Box the subordinating conjunction, and double
check you punctuated it correctly.
The Holocaust is very important to chapter eight of Whirligig by Paul
Fleischman. First, it has different effects on both Jenny and her
grandmother. Because Jenny’s grandma was in the Holocaust, she
should be bitter and hateful, but she isn’t. Jenny only knows about the
Holocaust through her grandmother and books, yet she has much
hatred. The Holocaust is used to bring the two characters together
since they both have strong feelings about it. Not only does Grandma
change her attitude through Brent’s whirligig, but also Jenny realizes
that hate cannot rule one’s life. Overall, Fleischman uses the
Holocaust to bond the relationship of Jenny and her grandmother.
1/14/14
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature
Objective: To read chapter nine while looking for
character and thematic developments
Answer the following question in 23 sentences in your notebook
The world itself was a whirligig, its
myriad parts invisibly linked…
. (pg
133) Do you agree or disagree
with this statement? Why?
myriad (adj.) countless, very many
1/15/14
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature
Objective: to discuss chapter nine and the conclusion of the novel
Find and correct the seven errors
In the summative sentence below:
Brent was talking to the
beech artist about there
art and she said the
darkness swallows up
most of us.
January 16, 2014
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature
Objective: To discuss figurative language in the novel. To write a
paragraph response.
Using two vocabulary words (#s 19-27 on your chart), write a
sentence about the best part of chapters 7-9. Underline the two
words in your sentence.
January 21, 2014
1.7 Characteristics and Functions of the English Language
Objective: To review novel, literary terms, and conjunction use
1. Write a sentence about Brianna using a coordinating
conjunction
2. Write a sentence about the theme using a
3. subordinating conjunction
4. Write a sentence about Anthony using a
5. correlative conjunction.
Literature and Conjunction Review
Name______________________________
1. Theme is the message moral or insight of a story.
2. Possible themes for this story include
_____________________________________________________________________________,
_____________________________________________________________________________,
_____________________________________________________________________________,
and __________________________________________________________________________.
3. The point of view is the vantage point from which a story is told, so it will be on the test.
4. Not only does the novel use first person point of view, but also third person point of view.
5.. When there is an ongoing struggle in the story, it is called a conflict.
6. There are three types of conflict ________________________________________________,
___________________________________, and ______________________________________.
7. Irony is the difference between what you expect to happen and what really happens, so an
example of irony from the novel is when Jenny’s grandmother forgives Hilter.
8. Irony is prevalent in the novel since ____________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
9. Because ____________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________, it is irony too.
10. Because symbolism is when an object represents a bigger idea or feeling, it appears in the novel
a few times.
11. Two instances of symbolism could be either ______________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________or
_____________________________________________________________________________.
12. Since plot is the events that make up a story, it is important for the test.
Create a summative sentence for two chapters I will give you. One must have a coordinating
conjunction in it CIRCLED. The other must have a subordinating conjunction CIRCLED.
Chapters 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Coordinating Conjunction ________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
Subordinating Conjunction _______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
January 22, 2014
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature: PLOT
Objective: To review novel’s plot
TEST TOMORROW
Define plot.
January 24, 2014
1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature:
Objective: To correct tests and review PSSA terms
SUBMIT Conjunctions Pre-Quiz
Get your Whirligig vocabulary sheet out. Use one of
the conjunctions given in a sentence ABOUT THE
NOVEL with one of your vocabulary words.
Underline the vocabulary word.
(subordinating) because
(coordinating) or nor
since
if
January 27, 2014
1.7 Characteristics and Functions of the English Language
Objective: To demonstrate knowledge of conjunctions and their
use
indirect characterization
1. what the character says
2. appearance of character (what he/she wears or looks like)
3. what others say about character
4. thoughts and feelings of character
5. how the character acts
direct characterization
what the author directly says about a character