1.  Choose from the following prompts. Write the prompt at the top of the page. Only one use of prompt per week. If there is something important that you would rather write on today, write your prompt at the top of the page. 1. Take a minute to remember your summer-- What are some good decisions you have made in the past couple weeks? Give specific examples along with the outcomes or possible future outcomes. 2. Do you feel like you have positive relationships on campus? Why or why not/? give specific examples 3. Think about the classes you have taken over your school career, in which did you spend time critically thinking the most or problem-solving? In what classes did you work on communicating your ideas with others through group discussions or presentations? 4. Remembering last year, did your middle school give you opportunities to help improve it or the community around the school? 5. What learning have you done in school that will help you in the future? Be specific and explain with details

2. 1. What skills do you need to escape from a game that could prove deadly? Think about a movie or a TV show you’ve seen where the hero has landed in a dangerous situation. What special skill did he or she use to escape? Use that information to help with your journal response.

3. “The Most Dangerous Game” Literary Terms & Responses to Study Questions Which types of titles are put in quotation marks? Which types of titles are put in italics? What pattern do you see between how titles are treated? Short stories Poems Articles: web sites, magazine, newspaper, etc Chapter titles songs Books Magazines, newspapers, websites, etc Textbooks Albums

4.  Objective: working alone in 10 minutes you will make begin your vocabulary assignment using what you just learned from the review to earn a perfect score  Assignments:  10-minute writing  Review vocabulary assignment  Page 15: Vocabulary for “The Most Dangerous Game”  Cornell Style notes:  Read “The Most Dangerous Game”  HW: complete vocabulary assignment

5. “The Most Dangerous Game” Literary Terms & Responses to Study Questions Which types of titles are put in quotation marks? Which types of titles are put in italics? What pattern do you see between how titles are treated? A. Short stories Poems Articles: web sites, magazine, newspaper, etc Chapter titles songs Books Magazines, newspapers, websites, etc Textbooks Albums The sailors’ dread might foreshadow a scary situation for some or all of the characters in the story. A name like “Ship-Trap Island” along with Whitney telling us that the sailors hate to pass it coveys a bad feeling (17). I think the island may really be some sort of trap and the crew of the ship knows it.

6. “The Most Dangerous Game” Literary Terms & Responses to Study Questions Which types of titles are put in quotation marks? Which types of titles are put in italics? What pattern do you see between how titles are treated? suspense Short stories Poems Articles: web sites, magazine, newspaper, etc Chapter titles songs Books Magazines, newspapers, websites, etc Textbooks Albums Feeling scared about what will happen in the story

7. 1. Take a look at these pictures. Based on these & and the title “The Most Dangerous Game,” what do you predict Richard Connel’s story will be about?

8.  Objective: today we will review & apply the literary terms foreshadowing & suspense to Richard Connel’s story  Assignments:  10-minute writing  Cornell Style notes: 15-34  Lit terms  responses to study questions A-S  read “The Most Dangerous Game”  HW: complete assigned study questions according to the HW rubric

9.  Objective: today we will review & apply the literary terms foreshadowing & suspense to Richard Connel’s story  Assignments:  Continue with Cornell Style notes: 15-34  Lit terms  responses to study questions B-S  read “The Most Dangerous Game”  HW: complete assigned study questions B-D, according to the HW rubric

10.  E) The small bullet makes me think the hunter ---------------  F) The details about Ivan as he opens the door add to the suspense because_______  G) Zaroff looks weird because ____. This makes me imagine that his role will ___  H) I think Zaroff will tell Rainsford that____  I) Zaroff & Rainsford’s conversation adds to the suspense because ___  The only animal I can think of who is able to reason is __________________

11.  Objective: today we will review & apply the literary terms foreshadowing & suspense to Richard Connel’s story  Assignments:  Continue with Cornell Style notes: 19-34  Lit terms  responses to study questions E-S  read “The Most Dangerous Game”  HW: complete assigned study questions, according to the HW rubric

12. 1. Do you feel like your actions during the drill— beginning to end– would have increased your chances of survival? Explain 2. How will you respond / what will you do next time? Explain 3. How do you think it would have been different if we didn’t all know ahead of time?

13.  Objective: today we will review & apply the literary terms foreshadowing & suspense to Richard Connel’s story  Assignments:  10 minute writing prompt  Continue with Cornell Style notes: 25-34  responses to study questions I-S  read “The Most Dangerous Game”  HW: complete assigned study questions, according to the HW rubric/ test on “The Most Dangerous Game” next week

14.  Objective: today we will review & apply the literary terms foreshadowing & suspense to Richard Connel’s story  Assignments:  10 minute writing prompt  Graded discussion  Continue with Cornell Style notes: 25-34  responses to study questions I-S  read “The Most Dangerous Game”  HW: complete assigned study questions, according to the HW rubric/ test on “The Most Dangerous Game” next week