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Division 2: Three Skeleton Key

 Warm-up: Describe in detail, the most terrifying experience you have ever had in your life. This could be an actual event, book you’ve read, movie you’ve watched….

 Introduction to suspense writing.  Create a “Close Reading Sheet” to log questions and notes on while we read.  Begin reading “Three Skeleton Key” by George Toudouze. (Pages 32-36)  Answer Close Reading Questions

 Day 1: Close Reading Questions 1. What are Le Gleo’s and Itchoua’s reactions to the mysterious ship? 2. What do their reactions tell you about the men? 3. Early in the story the narrator explained how Three Skeleton Key got it’s name. How does this information about the setting shape how the plot develops throughout the text?

 Warm-up: What is the tone and mood in this photo? Consider the colors, lighting, style.

 Read “Three Skeleton Key” (Pages 37-41).  Day 2 Close Reading Questions: 1. How does the author convey the scene of the rats swarming the lighthouse? What effect does the description have on the reader? Give evidence from the text. 2. What would cause the island’s name to be changed to “Six Skeleton Key”? Give Evidence to support your answer. 3. At what point within the text does the reader know that the narrator will survive the rat attack?

WARM-UP  Copy the quote from the text. Explain what this quote means and how the story could have been different if the narrator had responded differently.  “…there were many such stories and I did not give the warnings of the old-timers… a second thought.”

 Finish reading “Three Skeleton Key.”  Day 3 Close Reading Questions: 1. How did the narrator’s character make it more likely that he would survive and even return to work in the lighthouse? 2. What is a theme of this story? Use evidence from the text to support your response.

 Warm-up: What is the tone and mood this photo? Consider the colors, lighting, style.

 Stations  Station #1: Vocabulary  Station #2: Venn Diagram/Thinking Map  Station #3: Create a Found Poem

 Warm-up/Weekly Writing prompt:  Each of the characters in the story respond differently to the rat attack. Select one character from the story and explain how his outlook and approaches to challenges led to his particular outcome. Using details from the story to support your response.

 Finish any close reading questions and/or station work for the week.  Read Quietly.