1. Weekly Objectives  Understand and appreciate a one-act play  Identify and examine dramatic irony  Draw inferences in a one-act play  Determine the meaning of unknown words by using context clues

2. Weekly Agenda  Review Mystery Cube – “ Wasps’ Nest”  Apply Literary Terms- “Wasps’ Nest”  Review Plot Summary- “ Wasps’ Nest”  Wasps’ Nest Comprehensive Assessment  Begin “Trifles”

3. Bell Ringer   In 3-5 sentences explain the crime Hercule Poirot prevents.   Take out your mystery cube.

4. Writing Assignment News Story: Imagine that you are a local reporter covering the Wright murder. Write a news account of the murder and the investigation. Include quotations from characters in the play that hint at concealed evidence. News Story: Imagine that you are a local reporter covering the Wright murder. Write a news account of the murder and the investigation. Include quotations from characters in the play that hint at concealed evidence.

5. DOL - INCORRECT 1. Mrs. Hale is the strongest of the two women. 2. The title of this play Trifles is significant said the teacher and she said “that we should look for trifles as we read it.”

6. DOL - CORRECT 1.Mrs. Hale is the stronger of the two women. 2.“The title of this play, Trifles, is significant,” said the teacher, and she said that we should look for trifles as we read it.

7. Quick Write  Think about the kinds of rules and procedures police follow when examining a crime scene. What kind of physical evidence do you think they find most crucial, and what evidence might be overlooked or thought unimportant? What kinds of clues do you think women might notice more than men?

8. Words to Know abashedcomprehensioncovertfacetiouslypreoccupied

9. Context Clues  Trifles are those small details that we tend not to notice when we’re preoccupied with more important things.  However, what seem at first to be trifles may be clues that reveal covert problems and tensions.

10. Context Clues  The women take what they discover quite seriously, although the men speak facetiously about it.  Because they cannot see the importance of small details, the men lack any real comprehension of Minnie Wright’s motives.  Can you imagine the men’s abashed reaction if they had discovered that there were important clues in the kitchen?

11. Literary Terms  Dramatic Irony – The contrast between what a character is aware of and what the reader or audience knows.  Inferences – logical guesses based on facts.

12. Literary Terms  Symbol – a person, place, an event, or an object that stands for something beyond itself.  Conflict- the struggle or opposing forces presented in the story.  Dialogue-Written conversation between two or more characters in a story.  Character- the person/people who take part in the action of the story.

13. Purpose for Reading  Setting?  Characters?  Crime?  Suspect?  Clues?  Motive?