September 14, 2011 Homework  Vocabulary page 26 and 27  Quiz Tomorrow!!  Summer Reading Test FRIDAY!!  Bring literature text notebooks and vocabulary tomorrow Do Now Worksheet

 Review vocabulary  Review worksheet

September 15, 2011 Homework   Literature Textbook read to page 47 answer questions on Page 53 # 1,2, 5 and 6   Summer Reading Test TOMORROW! Do Now   Literature pg 43 Vocabulary Preview   Vocabulary Quiz

Literature   Broken Chain page 44-47

September 16, 2011 Homework   Test Friday on Chapter 1 and Broken Chain   Journal Entry “Why do you think teenagers are so concerned with how they look and are so concerned about what others think of them?

Summer Reading Exam!   Desk CLEARED   Pencil ONLY   DO NOT WRITE ON THE TEST   FILL OUT SCANTRON CORRECTLY

September 19, 2011 Homework   Spelling 3 times each   Spelling quiz Thursday   Literature pg 53 #3, and 7   BRING BOTH TEXTBOOKS TO CLASS THIS WEEK!   Test Friday Do Now Spelling pg 18

September 20, 2011 Homework   Spelling pg 19   Quiz Thursday!   Grammar pg exercise 13 and pg 66 Review C   Test Friday! Do Now Grammar pg 67 Chapter Review A and B

September 21, 2011 Homework  Spelling pg 20  Quiz Tomorrow!  Grammar pg Chapter Review C and D  Test Friday!! Do Now Literature pg 53 Write down definition of Conflict

  Finish Broken Chain   Answer question 4 and 8

TEST BREAK DOWN   Four kinds of sentences   Sentences vs. Sentence Fragments   Simple Subject   Complete Subject   Simple Predicate   Complete Predicate   Compound Subject and Compound Verbs   “Broken Chain”- Story details and Story Vocabulary

“Broken Chain” Review   Review the story and note details about Alfonso’s appearance.   Reread the parts in the story where other characters- his father, Ernie and Sandra react to his appearance.   Note Alfonso’s worries   Types of conflicts   Why, What, How and When

Broken Chain NOTES   Setting- Fresno California in a Mexican American neighborhood in the 1980s

Summary   On Saturday, Alfonso, who is painfully self- conscious, meets a girl when he rescues her little brother. He ask her to go bike riding with him on Monday. Alfonso asks his older brother Ernie, to lend him his bike for Sandra to use, but Ernie refuses. On Monday, Alfonso breaks his bike chain and is left with no bike at all. At the last minute Ernie shows up and lends his bike to Alfonso after all. Sandra doesn’t mind riding on the crossbar. She and Alfonso have fun anyway.

  Alfonso- 7 th grade Mexican American boy who is not happy with the way he looks. He tries hard to fix the things he does not like. His family does not have the money to buy him what he wants so he goes to other means. He takes care of his bike unlike his brother Ernie until one day his bike breaks. He comes across a girl who likes him for him and his brother helps him on in the end.

Conflict   The central struggle between opposing forces in a story. Conflicts can be internal or external.

Internal Conflict   Exists within the mind of the character who is torn between opposing feelings

External Conflict   When a character struggles against an outside force

Man Vs. Another Person or Machine

Man Versus Nature

Man Versus Society

Literary Terms   Setting- the time and place in which the events of a short story occur.   Narrator – the person who tells the story   Point of view- the relationship of the narrator to the story. There are three points of view:   First-person: told by a character   Third-person limited: the narrator is outside the story and reveals the thoughts of only one character   Third-person omniscient: Narrator is outside the story but reveals the thoughts of all characters

Plot   The sequence of events in a story, novel, or play. Plot Map

  Exposition- Alfonso is a young boy who is unhappy with the way he looks   Rising Actions-Alfonso pushes his teeth together in hopes of straightening them, meets a girl name Sandra then ask her to go bike riding.   Climax- Alfonso breaks his bike chain   Falling Actions- Alfonso ask to use his brother’s bike. At first Ernie says no and Alfonso has to tell Sandra that their date is canceled. But in the end Ernie does give Alfonso the bike.   Resolution- Alfonso gets together with Sandra, who seems to like him and not mind his crooked teeth. He feels comfortable around her.