Objective: By the end of class, students will apply active reading strategies to short fiction and examine text structure.

DO NOW

Copy first five vocabulary words from Introduction of The Story Teller on page 154 of holt text (blue) and write a sentence with context clues for each in notebook.


Direct Instruction

Review the POINT OF VIEW worksheets from yesterday. 

Review Plot Structure

FRAME STORY is a story within a story. The Story Teller is written in this manner.

Read first 2 pages of Story Teller together and use active reading strategies. Read until the bachelor begins his tale.

Guided

In pairs, read the story of Bertha, the story within the story. Use active reading strategies to mark up handouts.  Use annotation sheet to help you. Don't forget to write notes in margins and make any real life connections that you can to help you make sense of it all.

Independent

1. What narrative perspective does the author use to write The Story Teller? 

2. What is the basic situation of The Story Teller?

3. What is a Frame Story? What is the "FRAME" of The Story Teller?

4. What is the narrative perspective of the bachelor's story?

5. Create a plot structure for the bachelor's tale (about Bertha)

6.  What is the theme or message of the Aunt's tale?

7. What is the theme or message of the bachelor's tale?

8. Analyze the effectiveness of the author's use of irony at the end of the bachelor's tale.

Possible Answer:

At the end of the bachelor's tale, Bertha is eaten by the wolf.  According to the Aunt, bad things don't happen to good people and Bertha was "horribly good." Not only does this "horribly good" child get killed, but she is discovered by the wolf because her medals for being good clanked together, exposing her hiding place. If Bertha was not so proud of her "goodness," the wolf would not have found her. The irony that she gets eaten BECAUSE she is good, shocks the reader and effectively delivers the message that goodness is not always rewarded.

Closure / Understanding

Review questions / answers. Review annotations.

HW

Complete annotations on handout of the Story Teller.