1. Let’s Chunk it up! Noden’s “Painting with the Noun Collage” (p. 103 – 104) Megan M. Springs: 10th Grade English

2. Happy Wednesday! Please take your regularly assigned seat. Make sure that you are unplugged, turned off, and put away before class begins. What you will need: Pencil Paper As you wait for class to begin, please complete the following: 1.Please take out a piece of paper for note taking. 2.You do not have to use MLA format for this lesson activity.

3. Painting Your Setting A setting: 1.Tells the reader where “they” are as they personally experience the story 2.Gives the reader special insights about the characters in the story 3.Clues the reader into your tone: how you (the author) feel about the plot, characters, and even topics you write about 4.Helps suggest mood to the reader: how they should feel about certain characters or events (plot) within the story.

4. Let’s Make a Lists: What things might you expect to find in a junk yard?

5. Let’s Make a Lists: What things might you expect to find in a junk yard? “Seen in a junk yard. Dogs, chickens with few claws, brass fittings, T’s elbow, rust everywhere, bales of metal 1800 lbs., plumbing fixtures, bathtubs, sinks, water pumps, wheels, Fordson tractor, acetylene lamps for tractors, sewing machine, bell on dinghy, box of bolts (No.1), van, stove, auto stuff (No. 2), army trucks, cast iron body, hot dog stand, dinky engines, sprockets like watch parts, hinge all taken apart on building side, motorcycle radiators, George on the high army truck” (1945, 107).

6. “The auditorium was jammed. A sweep of best cloths, old men in camphor-stinking black jackets that gnawed their underarms., women in silk and fine wools in colors of camel, cinnabar, cayenne, bronze, permission, periwinkle, Aztec red. Imported Italian pumps. Hair crimped and curled, lacquered into stiff clouds. Lipstick. Red circles of rouge. The men with shaved jowls, Neckties like wrapping paper, children in sugar pink and cream. The puff of scented bodies, a murmur like bees over a field. (Proulz 1993, 275-76)

7. Noun = Person, Place, or Thing

8. “The auditorium was jammed. A sweep of best cloths, old men in camphor-stinking black jackets that gnawed their underarms., women in silk and fine wools in colors of camel, cinnabar, cayenne, bronze, permission, periwinkle, Aztec red. Imported Italian pumps. Hair crimped and curled, lacquered into stiff clouds. Lipstick. Red circles of rouge. The men with shaved jowls, Neckties like wrapping paper, children in sugar pink and cream. The puff of scented bodies, a murmur like bees over a field. (Proulz 1993, 275-76) A noun phrase is a phrase that plays the role of a noun. The head word in a noun phrase will be a noun or a pronoun.

9. Let’s Make a Lists: Using a piece of scratch paper, select a place that you might use for the setting of a story. Example: a classroom, a city park, your bedroom, a purse or wallet, or some other environment. Then, write a “list” in paragraph form that names all of the things that you might find in that setting.