Thursday, November 6 - The Story teller

Objective: By the end of class, students will examine literary elements (irony and POV) in fiction in order to improve literal and interpretive reading comprehension skills and make real world connections

DO NOW

Constructed response practice with graphic organizer (restate, explain, use an example or quote from the story, concluding sentence that ensures you answered the question): 

TO ENTERTAIN = to add humor, to shock, to create suspense
 To PERSUADE = to emphasize,  to encourage, to convince
TO INFORM = to clarify, to explain, to provide details

3/4 - 6/7
Evaluate why the author uses 2nd person narrative perspective in the test practice passage.



Direct Instruction

POV

Focus on Omniscient Narrator 

Read The Story Teller intro page 100 / then 101-104 (plus first sentence at top of 105)..

Complete side bars though the top of 105 in your notebooks.

Guided/Independent

Questions (to be handed in ):

1. Describe the characters in the story - use two adjectives to describe the aunt, cyril (small boy), small girl, smaller girl and the Bachelor. 

2. What is the setting of the story?

2. Why is it important that Saki use third person omniscient narrator for Storyteller? How would the story change if you didn't know what everyone was thinking - especially the children at this point?

3.  Why do you think the bachelor is disgusted with the Aunt and her storytelling? 

4. "HORRIBLY GOOD" is an oxymoron. Why do you think the Bachelor starts his story like this? Predict the children's reaction to his story.

Closure

Review effects of POV on reader interpretation.

Exit Pass

"Horribly Good" is a hint at the theme (central idea) of this short fictional story. Can you predict the theme?