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ENGLISH AREAENGLISH LITERATURE

7TH GRADE2010-2011

TEACHER: Mauricio Martinez Martinez

GUIDE: 1 Estimated Time: From: August 11th to August 31st Total number of hours: 16

COLLECTION: FACING MONSTERS

SUBTOPICS:a. Reading selection: “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury.b. Literary genre: Science Fiction.c. Reading skills: Reading Strategies and Cause and Effect. d. Literary devices: Climax and Plot.e. Writer´s workshop: write a short narrative about a conflict or confrontation that

is funny, scary, sad or just interesting to you.f. On the Internet: Science: research theories of why the dinosaurs disappear and

the Big Bang theory.g. Words to Own

PERFORMANCES: Reviews and identifies reading strategies in order to have a better reading

comprehension Analyzes and synthesizes the story “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury Uses mental representation of new words Compares and contrasts internal and external conflict Identifies climax in a story Uses sequencing in cause and effect events Uses divergent thinking when doing writing and research projects.

MENTAL OPERATIONS

Divergent thinking Adopting a new position changing a point of view, through creativity and imagination.

Analyzing and synthesizing

Breaking down into parts and forms describing what is really relevant.Combining elements by selecting and abbreviating.

Coding and decoding

Expressing ideas or concepts through different kinds of codes.Interpreting different types of codes.

Using mental representation Making mental images of phenomena objects or concepts.Sequencing Process by which objects or phenomena are organized

through a criterion of relations among them.Identifying Gathering the general characteristics of an object in order

to express them in a word which defines them.ComparingContrasting

Finding similarities based on specific criteria.Finding differences based on specific criteria.

Deducing Obtaining and building reasonable concepts based on the new given information.

Hypothetical reasoning Making assumptions from which conclusions can be made.

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CONTENT FRAMEWORK

The following subtopics can be found on Elements of Literature, Third CourseHolt, Rinehart and Winston, a Harcourt company.

Reading Strategies pp 979 - 980 Climax and Plot pp 34 and 969 “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury pp 35-47 Words to Own pp 38,39,41,42,43 and 49 Writing process p 48

NEW VOCABULARY

1.resilient 7.phlegm 13.guarantee 19.parchment 25.howled2.paradox 8.primeval 14.swallowed 20.flickered 26.the merest3.undulate 9.quaver 15.disobey 21.humming 27.swayed4.teeming 10.remit 16.momentary 22.glanced 28.glorious5.annihilate 11.revoke 17.eyelids 23.penalty 29.wrinkles6.expendable 12.subliminal 18.blink 24.stiff 30.bonfire

CONTENT METHODOLOGY

SUBTOPICSACTIVITIES

Previous Concept Verifications

Concept Apprehension

Closure

ReadingsStrategies

3hrs

Students will read “After Twenty Years” by O. Henry in practice and application and will identify Character, Setting, Plot, and Theme.

Students will complete the SWBS chart to review the narrative elements.

Students will discuss the last year´s reading strategies they used when reading the story.

Students will be exposed to the new reading strategies and they will report which ones they used when reading the story.

Students will provide answers to the exercises that follow the story in practice and application.

Students will compile an annotation of the main points of each reading strategy to be shared in class.

Homework: Students will skim and scan the selection “A Sound of Thunder” and will find the context clues for the Words to Own.

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SUBTOPICSACTIVITIES

Background Knowledge


Closure

Words to own

3hrs

Students will be engaged in a class discussion about context clues.

Students will be exposed to the Words to Own with the five word fields: definition, meaningful sentence, part of speech, context clue, and illustration, synonym or antonym.Students will consolidate their knowledge by practicing their vocabulary skills on the erasable boards.

Students will do the crossword puzzle of Words to Own in practice and application.

Homework: Students will consult the definition of Science Fiction as literary genre. Also, they will read “A Sound of Thunder” and will send a summary to mr.mrtzßhotmail.com

SUBTOPICSACTIVITIES



Closure

“A Sound of Thunder” Ray Bradbury

Science Fiction

Climax and Plot

3hrs

Students will choose ten Words to Own to write a short paragraph.

Students will participate in the summary homework ballot in a class discussion about “A Sound of Thunder” and Science Fiction.

Students will listen to and read aloud the story “A Sound of Thunder” and will answer the questions in content evaluation.

Students will be exposed to the explanation of Science Fiction, Climax and Plot.

Students will identify the Climax and Plot of the story.

Students will use Sixty second synopsis strategy (60SSS) to summarize the story.

Students will explain why this story belongs to the Science Fiction genre.

Homework: Students will complete the Cause and Effect chart in practice and application.

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SUBTOPICSACTIVITIES



Closure

Cause and Effect

3 hrs

Students will discuss the Cause and Effect chart.

Based on the Cause and Effect chart, students will identify the Conflict in the story.

Students will share an Internal and External Conflict and classmates will give some advice.

Homework: Students will do the On the Internet research in practice and application.

SUBTOPICSACTIVITIES



Closure

Writer´s workshop

2hrs

Students will read “How Did They Disappear?” p40 and will discuss about the theories of extinction.

Students will share their findings about the On the Internet research.

By following the writing process guidelines, students will write a short narrative about a conflict or confrontation that is funny, scary, sad or just interesting to them.

Students will read “from Jurassic Park” pp45-46 and will answer the questions in practice and application.

Homework: Students will compare and contrast “from Jurassic Park” to “A Sound of Thunder” in the Venn diagram in practice and application.

SUBTOPICSACTIVITIES



Closure

Formal test one

2 hrs

Students will present the Venn diagrams in a round table discussion.

Students will take formal test one about the selection, literary genre and literary devices.

Students will do graphic summary.

Homework: Students will do final evaluation and look for the definition of short story as literary genre.

CONTENT EVALUATION

1. What reading strategies help you understand better when you read? Define them. (Identifying)

2. What is “Climax” What information helps you know the climax in a story? (Identifying)

3. Answer the questions based on the story “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury. Who is the main character in the story? How do you realize? (Hypothetical

reasoning) What kind of story is it? (Identifying) Where does the main character go? Who is going to escort him?

(Deducing)

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What is the climax of the story? ((Hypothetical reasoning)4. Based on the new vocabulary answer the questions: (Coding and decoding)

On a hot summer day, an ice cream shop may be_____ with people. a)undulate b) teeming c) primeval

ocean waves_____ a) remit b) paradox c) undulate bugs spray will_____ ants. a) annihilate b) revoke c) resilient a rubber band is _____ a) resilient b) subliminal c) expendable items that are thrown overboard to lighten a load are _____a)

expendable b) resilient c) remit

PRACTICE AND APPLICATION

Sharpen Reading Strategies

Read the story and provide answers to the exercises. Apply the reading strategies.

“After Twenty Years” by O. Henry

The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue impressively. The impressiveness was habitual and not for show, for spectators were few. The time was barely 10 o'clock at night, but chilly gusts of wind with a taste of rain in them had well nigh depeopled the streets.

Trying doors as he went, twirling his club with many intricate and artful movements, turning now and then to cast his watchful eye adown the pacific thoroughfare, the officer, with his stalwart form and slight swagger, made a fine picture of a guardian of the peace. The vicinity was one that kept early hours. Now and then you might see the lights of a cigar store or of an all-night lunch counter; but the majority of the doors belonged to business places that had long since been closed.

When about midway of a certain block the policeman suddenly slowed his walk. In the doorway of a darkened hardware store a man leaned, with an unlighted cigar in his mouth. As the policeman walked up to him the man spoke up quickly.

"It's all right, officer," he said, reassuringly. "I'm just waiting for a friend. It's an appointment made twenty years ago. Sounds a little funny to you, doesn't it? Well, I'll explain if you'd like to make certain it's all straight. About that long ago there used to be a restaurant where this store stands--'Big Joe' Brady's restaurant."

"Until five years ago," said the policeman. "It was torn down then."

The man in the doorway struck a match and lit his cigar. The light showed a pale, square-jawed face with keen eyes, and a little white scar near his right eyebrow. His scarfpin was a large diamond, oddly set.

"Twenty years ago to-night," said the man, "I dined here at 'Big Joe' Brady's with Jimmy Wells, my best chum, and the finest chap in the world. He and I were raised here in New York, just like two brothers, together. I was eighteen and Jimmy was twenty. The next morning I was to start for the West to make my fortune. You couldn't have dragged Jimmy out of New York; he thought it was the only place on earth. Well, we agreed that night that we would meet here again exactly twenty years from that date and time, no matter what our conditions might be or from what distance we might have

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to come. We figured that in twenty years each of us ought to have our destiny worked out and our fortunes made, whatever they were going to be."

"It sounds pretty interesting," said the policeman. "Rather a long time between meets, though, it seems to me. Haven't you heard from your friend since you left?"

"Well, yes, for a time we corresponded," said the other. "But after a year or two we lost track of each other. You see, the West is a pretty big proposition, and I kept hustling around over it pretty lively. But I know Jimmy will meet me here if he's alive, for he always was the truest, staunchest old chap in the world. He'll never forget. I came a thousand miles to stand in this door to-night, and it's worth it if my old partner turns up."

The waiting man pulled out a handsome watch, the lids of it set with small diamonds.

"Three minutes to ten," he announced. "It was exactly ten o'clock when we parted here at the restaurant door."

"Did pretty well out West, didn't you?" asked the policeman.

"You bet! I hope Jimmy has done half as well. He was a kind of plodder, though, good fellow as he was. I've had to compete with some of the sharpest wits going to get my pile. A man gets in a groove in New York. It takes the West to put a razor-edge on him."

The policeman twirled his club and took a step or two.

"I'll be on my way. Hope your friend comes around all right. Going to call time on him sharp?"

"I should say not!" said the other. "I'll give him half an hour at least. If Jimmy is alive on earth he'll be here by that time. So long, officer."

"Good-night, sir," said the policeman, passing on along his beat, trying doors as he went.

There was now a fine, cold drizzle falling, and the wind had risen from its uncertain puffs into a steady blow. The few foot passengers astir in that quarter hurried dismally and silently along with coat collars turned high and pocketed hands. And in the door of the hardware store the man who had come a thousand miles to fill an appointment, uncertain almost to absurdity, with the friend of his youth, smoked his cigar and waited.

About twenty minutes he waited, and then a tall man in a long overcoat, with collar turned up to his ears, hurried across from the opposite side of the street. He went directly to the waiting man.

"Is that you, Bob?" he asked, doubtfully.

"Is that you, Jimmy Wells?" cried the man in the door.

"Bless my heart!" exclaimed the new arrival, grasping both the other's hands with his own. "It's Bob, sure as fate. I was certain I'd find you here if you were still in existence. Well, well, well! --twenty years is a long time. The old gone, Bob; I wish it had

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lasted, so we could have had another dinner there. How has the West treated you, old man?"

"Bully; it has given me everything I asked it for. You've changed lots, Jimmy. I never thought you were so tall by two or three inches."

"Oh, I grew a bit after I was twenty."

"Doing well in New York, Jimmy?"

"Moderately. I have a position in one of the city departments. Come on, Bob; we'll go around to a place I know of, and have a good long talk about old times."

The two men started up the street, arm in arm. The man from the West, his egotism enlarged by success, was beginning to outline the history of his career. The other, submerged in his overcoat, listened with interest.

At the corner stood a drug store, brilliant with electric lights. When they came into this glare each of them turned simultaneously to gaze upon the other's face.

The man from the West stopped suddenly and released his arm.

"You're not Jimmy Wells," he snapped. "Twenty years is a long time, but not long enough to change a man's nose from a Roman to a pug."

"It sometimes changes a good man into a bad one, said the tall man. "You've been under arrest for ten minutes, 'Silky' Bob. Chicago thinks you may have dropped over our way and wires us she wants to have a chat with you. Going quietly, are you? That's sensible. Now, before we go on to the station here's a note I was asked to hand you. You may read it here at the window. It's from Patrolman Wells."

The man from the West unfolded the little piece of paper handed him. His hand was steady when he began to read, but it trembled a little by the time he had finished. The note was rather short.

~"Bob: I was at the appointed place on time. When you struck the match to light your cigar I saw it was the face of the man wanted in Chicago. Somehow I couldn't do it myself, so I went around and got a plain clothes man to do the job. JIMMY."

-THE END-[William Porter] O Henry's short story: After Twenty Years (Taken from Elements of Literature, The holt reader 1st Course)

Exercise 1: Answer the questions based on the previous reading.

1.What are the details that help you picture the setting? (Analyzing and synthesizing)

2.What inferences can you make about the policeman’s character, and about the character of the man in the doorway? (Hypothetical reasoning)

3.What was the agreement that Jimmy Wells and the man in the doorway had made twenty years earlier? (Deducing)

4.How old would Jimmy and the man in the doorway be when they met after twenty years? (Hypothetical reasoning)

5.What are three clues foreshadowing that Bob might be a criminal? (Deducing)

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6.What is unexpected about the ending of the story? (Hypothetical reasoning)

Exercise 2: Write true or false. Explain the false sentences.(Differentiating)__________1. The night was chilly and the streets were empty.__________2. Jimmy and Bob had been writing to each other for twenty years__________3. The two friends planned to meet at 10 P.M__________4. Jimmy didn’t want to leave New York __________5. Bob didn’t recognize Jimmy when he saw him

Explanation:______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Exercise 3: Match words and definitions. Write the letter of the correct definition next to each word. (Identifying)

1. habitual A miserably; gloomily2. intricate B at the same time3. dismally C done or fixed by habit; customary4. egotism D complicated; full of detail5. simultaneously E conceit; talking about oneself too much

SOMEBODY WANTED BUT SO (SWBS) for “After Twenty Years” by O. Henry(Using mental representation)

Somebody… Wanted… But… So.

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE OF WORDS TO OWN (Identifying-Using mental representation)

Across1. below the level of consciousness.3. something that has or seems to have contradictory qualities.5. primitive; of the earliest times.7. swarming, overflowing, crowded.8. cancel; withdraw.9. give back payment.10. worth sacrificing to gain an objective.

Down2. move in waves.4. destroy, wipe out.6. elastic; able to return to the original shape quickly after being stretched or compressed. Also; able to recover quickly from misfortune.

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CAUSE AND EFFECT CHART of “A Sound of Thunder” Ray Bradbury

The plot of the story consists of a series of related events that come one after another. After you read “A Sound of Thunder”. List the story’s main events in the Cause and Effect chart. The first event has been filled in as an example. (Using mental representation)

ON THE INTERNET: Science: research theories of why the dinosaurs disappear and the Big Bang theory.

FROM JURASSIC PARKAnswer the following questions based on the excerpt “from Jurassic Park” pp45-46. Write the answers in the notebook.1-Which scene in “A Sound of Thunder” does this excerpt from Jurassic park remind you of? (Hypothetical reasoning)2-What causes Tim´s mouth to bleed? (Hypothetical reasoning)3-What is the tyrannosaur trying to do? (Deducing)4- Do you think this excerpt reveals the climax of an encounter with a tyrannosaur? Explain. (Hypothetical reasoning)

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COMPARING AND CONTRASTING CHARTCompare and contrast “A Sound of Thunder” and “from Jurassic Park”. Use the following criteria: characters, scenes descriptions, author´s intention. (Using mental representation, comparing and contrasting, analogical reasoning)

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WRITER´S WORKSHOPWrite a short narrative about a conflict or confrontation that is funny, scary, sad or just interesting to you. Students will be exposed to the different generating ideas techniques in order to know how to start their writing projects. (Divergent thinking)

1. Free writing2. Listing key words3. Asking questions4. Clustering5. Clippings (Further information, visit www.mrtz08.wordpress.com)

GRAPHIC SUMMARYDesign your graphic summary about the topics we studied in this guide, include: Reading strategies, words to own, climax and cause and effect. Provide definitions and examples.

NEW CONCEPTSDefine the following concepts in your notebook.

1. Think aloud

2. Retelling

3. Re-reading and rewording

4. Summarizing narrative text

5. Summarizing expository text

6. Key words

7. Climax

8. Cause and effect

9. Internal and external conflict

10.Science fiction story

FINAL EVALUATION

Part one: Reading Strategies

After reading “The Sound of Thunder” decide which the best answer to each question is. Mark the letter for that answer. )

1- In the last sentence of the second paragraph, the word check means a- (differentiating)

A. a restaurant billB. careful inspectionC. tally markD. bank draft

2- In the third to last paragraph, the word scrabbled means- (Differentiating)E. cursedF. frownedG. scrapedH. looked

3- What is this passage mainly about? (Hypothetical reasoning)I. DinosaursJ. Big game huntersK. A safari through timeL. A presidential election

4-What does Eckels do as he retreats to the Time Machine? (Identifying)M. He fires a shootN. He steps off the pathO. He runs into the jungleP. He takes a picture of the dinosaur

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5- The animals marked with red paint were soon going to- (Hypothetical reasoning)Q. dieR. mateS. migrateT. give birth

Part two: Words to Own

Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words to own. (Differentiating and coding and decoding)

1-On a hot summer day, an ice cream shop may be __________ with people.

2- Ocean waves __________.

3- Bugs spray will __________ ants.

4-A rubber band is __________.

5-Items that are thrown overboard to lighten a load are __________.

6- After a driver gets too many tickets, the law may __________ his license.

7- A time that is even older than ancient times is known __________.

8- You may __________payment.

9-Thoughts that lie just below the surface are __________.

10- If a heavy load is light to carry, that is a __________.

Part three: Reading Comprehension

Based on the reading “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, answer the following questions.

1- What do Eckels’ actions reveal about him? (Hypothetical reasoning)

______________________________________________________________________

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2- What images and impressions do you see about the time machine? (Analyzing and synthesizing)

______________________________________________________________________

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3- How do connect the word Deutscher to the World War II? (Divergent thinking and hypothetical reasoning)

______________________________________________________________________

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4- Based upon the story, what do you think the climax of the story is? (hypothetical reasoning)

______________________________________________________________________

Part four: Literary Devices

Complete the chart of Climax of “After Twenty Years” (Using mental representation)

Title:________________________Author:___________

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