1. Tuesday, January 26, 2016 Warm-Up: Make a prediction about the story, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” based on the quote and images below.
“The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard” (García Márquez 1).

2. Agenda for Today Finish “Thank You, Ma’am” Project
Project Presentations & Audience Evaluation

3. Elements of Fiction in “Thank You, Ma’am”
Group Activity
“Thank You, Ma’am” Groups:
PLOT
CHARACTERS
CONFLICT
THEME
SETTING
3rd
Edwin
Madelyn
Abner
Perla
Kenia
Kevin L.
Anastasia
David
Claudia
Kevin Z.
Maynor
Devanic
Estefani
Blany
Elsa
Mario
Ronald
Kelvin
Jose C.
4th
Kirian
Cruz
Christian
Jose
Haziel
Nefisimi
Cindy
Laura
Esteban
Karla
Alvaro
Justin
Jackye
Karolay
Melani
Melany
Raul

4. “Thank You Ma’am” Groups
Plot: Create and illustrate a detailed plot diagram for the story.
Characters: Create “body biographies” for the two characters in the story. Label your pictures with details of each character’s words, actions, and appearance.
Conflict: Identify one example of external conflict and two examples of internal conflict in the story. Write and illustrate a new ending showing a different way that the conflict could have been resolved.
Theme: Choose one of the themes from the story, explain and illustrate how it is shown in the story, and provide three examples of this theme from real life or other stories.
The importance of empathy, kindness, forgiveness, self-respect, role models, etc.; theme should be stated as a sentence
Setting: List all of the details of the setting that you can find in the story, and draw a picture of one of the two places depicted in the story. Make an inference about the time period based on details from the story and what you know about the author.

5. Citing Textual Evidence
Each group’s poster should include a minimum of TWO direct quotes from the story, with parenthetical citations.
Example:
Roger appears to be “fourteen or fifteen, frail and willow-wild, in tennis shoes and blue jeans” (Hughes 1).

6. Group Presentation Guidelines
Each group member must introduce yourself
Show which part of the poster you completed
Ask the audience if they have any questions (if they do, answer them)
Don’t conclude with “that’s all;” say “thank you”

7. Characteristics of Good Public Speaking
Enunciation: Pronouncing your words clearly so the audience can understand you
Projection: Speaking loudly enough that everyone can hear you
Inflection: Varying your tone of voice
Eye Contact: Connect with your audience
Body language: Good posture and appropriate use of gestures and facial expressions (smile!)
Visual Aids: The use of software, posters, or props to add visual appeal

8. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Born March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia
Died April 17, 2014 in Mexico City
Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for his most famous novel, Cien Años de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
One of the most popular writers of magic realism—a literary genre that originated in Latin America and incorporates elements of fantasy and myth into otherwise realistic fiction

9. Literary Terms Imagery: Language that appeals to the senses
Point of View: Three Types of Narrators
First Person
Narrator is a character in the story; uses pronouns like “I” and “me”
Third Person Limited
Narrator is outside the action, but we only see the story from one character’s perspective
Third Person Omniscient
Omniscient means “all-knowing”
Simile: A comparison between two different things using “like” or “as”
Example from the story: “The sands of the beach…glimmered like powdered light” (Marquez 1).
Metaphor: A comparison between two different things WITHOUT using “like” or “as”
Example from the story: “His passivity was not that of a hero taking his ease but that of a cataclysm in repose” (Marquez 2).
Genre: A category of literature
This story’s genre is magic realism
Verbal Irony: When a character or narrator says one thing, but means something else.
Example from the story: The neighbor woman is frequently referred to as “wise,” although she actually makes many foolish suggestions (such as feeding the old man mothballs).

10. “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” Vocabulary
Sentences for Practice:
The dog was _____________ by its inability to catch its own tail.
Do you have proof of your accusation, or is it just based on ___________?
The king was a beloved and _____________leader.
If you do not eat when you are sick, the lack of nutrients will __________ your recovery.
The kudzu vine is a __________that can kill the trees it grows on.
Rumors of a breakup began to __________when the actress was spotted with a new man.
Symptoms of the unknown ___________ include chills, fever, and muscle aches.
Many people go through an______________ phase during adolescence.
The crowd ______________d rapidly when someone fired a gun into the air.
Befuddled (adj): Confused
Disperse (v): To scatter
Ungainly (adj): Clumsy, awkward
Proliferate (v): To multiply or spread rapidly
Parasite (n): An animal or plant that lives in or on another living thing
Impede (v): To obstruct; to interfere with the progress of something
Magnanimous (adj): Generous and noble
Ailment (n): An illness
Conjecture (n): An inference or guess

11. “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”

12. Summarizer: 3-2-1
List: THREE things you learned today TWO things you did not understand ONE thing you would like to know more about

13. Summarizer: Choose ONE
What would you have done in Pelayo and Elisenda’s place?
What do you think the author was trying to show us about human nature?