1. Letter from a Concentration Camp & Letter to Scottie
By Yoshiko Uchida & F. Scott Fitzgerald
Week 8
Part 2

2. The plan…. Objectives Review About the Selection
Vocabulary
About the Selection
Background Information for Letter from a Concentration Camp & Letter to Scottie
Reading Skill
Authors’ Styles
Listen to the Stories
Practice
Workbook page 12
Evaluation
Workbook pages 13, 14, 15
Preview

3. Objectives
Students will analyze and respond to author’s style in fiction and non-fiction selections
Students will compare the effect of the authors’ style in their letters

4. Vocabulary Actual adj. _____________________________________
Use the following words in an original sentence OR give the definition or a synonym
Actual adj. _____________________________________
Barrack n. _____________________________________
Betrayed v. ____________________________________
Composed v. ____________________________________
Satisfactions n. _________________________________
Triumph n. _____________________________________
Virtue n. _______________________________________
Volume n. ______________________________________

5. Background Letters and War
Letters are important for people in difficult situations to have contact with the outside world
Letters from a Concentration Camp is about the Japanese and Japanese Americans that were taken from their homes and put into camps
Letter to Scottie is a letter from a father to a daughter during the time of the Great Depression with advice about life

6. Read the Story Open your books to page 476
Listen and follow along to the different stories
Every time a listening selection ends you will answer some questions
Any other words you find in the reading that you do not know, come write them on the board!

7. Questions, p477 What type of language is used in this selection?
How do you know if it is formal or informal? Give examples
What details about his surroundings make the letter writer feel as if he is in a prison?

8. Questions, p478-9
Look at the picture at the top of page 478, what do you think these people are feeling?
What is Jimbo’s attitude toward his situation?
What did you find most difficult about Jimbo’s situation?
Why does Jimbo say that “war makes people crazy”?
Why does he mention his lesson about the Bill of Rights? Why did the US deny people hearings before sending them to camps?

9. Questions, p480-2
Why is this letter straightforward and uncomplicated?
Which “don’t worry” items have to do with competition?
What is the author’s style of the letter?
What would you do if you received this letter?
What are their nicknames and how do they feel about them?
How is their relationship? How do you know? What’s your relationship with your father like?

10. Compare Literary Works

11. Compare Literary Works

12. Compare Literary Works

13. Practice
Open your workbooks to page 12 and complete

14. Evaluation
Complete the selection test
Workbook pages 13, 14, 15

15. Preview
Complete workbook pages!

16. The End
Way to be
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