Types of Reactions A Love Story

The Story One day, as you are walking out of school after your last class, you see the most attractive person you’ve seen in a long while. You ask your friends if they know who this person is. One of your friends knows the person and tells you the attractive person’s name. In fact, your friend is good friends with this person’s friend and offers to find out what lunch period this new apple of your eye is in. The next day at lunch, your friend takes you over to the table where the person is sitting and introduces you. You and your friend sit down with the attractive person and friend, and the four of you talk and enjoy lunch together. You find that not only is this person cute, but funny and enjoyable to be around. The person seems to enjoy your company, too, and you exchange e-mail addresses and phone numbers.

That night, you get a phone call from the person and talk for a while That night, you get a phone call from the person and talk for a while. You enjoy it and learn that the two of you have a lot in common. Before long, the two of you are a couple, and you decide to go to the next school dance together. You’re so excited-this person is so much fun to be around that you’re sure it’s going to be a great night.

The day of the dance comes and everything is perfect--your clothes, your date’s clothes, the decorations, the music-it’s all great and you’re having a terrific time. The DJ puts on a slow song and you find that you really like dancing in your date’s arms. The next song is a fast one and you and your date join a group of friends dancing nearby. For part of the song, you find yourself dancing across from your best friend’s date, while your friend is dancing beside your date. It’s fun to be part of such a casual group, but it’s also nice to go back to your own date for the next slow song.

Later in the evening, you are warm and thirsty, so you head out into the hallway, where there is punch to drink. Your date stays behind, fast-dancing as part of a large group. When you return a few minutes later, the music has changed, and you can’t find your date anywhere. Then you spot your date, across the dance floor, slow-dancing with someone else! You feel confused, angry and foolish standing alone on the dance floor, so you hurry back out into the hall. When your date comes looking for you a few songs later, you tell your date what you saw and how you felt. The conversation turns into an argument, with heated emotions and raised voices. You and your date decide that perhaps you had different ideas about the evening and you break up. A few weeks later, you’re walking out of school, when you see ahead of you the most attractive person you’ve spotted in a long while…

Assignment Now In your notebook, identify which parts of the story were analogies for the 5 types of chemical reactions. Synthesis: Decomposition: Single Replacement: Double Replacement: Combustion:

Assignment for Thursday, Dec. 13 Individually write a story that contains analogies for all five types of fundamental chemical reactions. The story can be about whatever you want—a few ideas are football games, telephone calls and cooking—except that you cannot copy any analogy you heard in the class story. The story doesn’t need to be long—just long enough to include comparisons to all five reaction types.

Reaction Type Analogy Story Rubric _____ / 20 all reactions accurately are represented _____ / 1 complete sentences _____ / 2 grammar and spelling _____ / 2 creativity and story flow _____ / 25 total points