1.  Using context clues: (5 min)  You can understand the meaning of words by understanding the context in which words are used.  * First, read the sentence.  She hated feeling like a pauper, never having enough money to buy fashionable clothes or expensive jewelry.  *Summarize the meaning.  *Define the underlined word based upon the sentence.  *Use the word in a new sentence.

2. Vocabulary Real Life Connection Building Background Irony Points of View

3.  Turn to page 199 and scan the short story, “The Necklace.” All students are responsible for scanning.  As a group, create a chart where you write down words of choice, and rate each one as "know it," "sort of know it," or "don't know it at all.“  On a separate sheet of paper, write a definition or "my guess on meaning" for the words you know and kind of know (NO DICTIONARIES!)  Before turning in these pre-reading charts, please know that this is not about "being right" but you are providing information to guide next steps in class vocabulary instruction.

4.  Do: Create a Frayer Model. Use context clues to determine meaning. Write a complex sentence to show mastery of the vocabulary word. 1. adulation 2. gamut 3. ruinous 4. aghast 5. pauper 6. vexation 7. askew 8. privation 9. exorbitant 10. prospects

5.  Connect to your Life (5 minutes)  Status is defined as the standing a person has in a group to which he or she belongs. What are some things that give a person status? How can you tell that a person has status? What are some benefits of status? What are some possible harmful effects of concern about status?

6.  "The Necklace" takes place in Paris in the second half of the 19th century. The life of a typical French woman was dictated by the income of her father or husband.  Wealthy women were upper class and lived a life of luxury. Middle-class women took care of family and home. Lower-class lived a life of poverty and hard work.  A woman could improve her status by marrying someone of a higher class, however a woman needed a dowry-(money or property) to give her new husband.

7.  The plot of a story is made up of a sequence of events or actions introducing conflicts, complications and resolution. This story is about a woman who unhappy with her social life. New conflicts take place after one conflict is resolved.