1. Reminders & Announcements!
Short answer quiz today! Make sure you have your marked stories for the quiz. I will not be able to provide copies as I do not have any.
Your Device of the Day test is on Tuesday! The study guide is online. (30% of your grade)
Your Socratic Seminar is on Thursday. If you’re going to be out, please make arrangements to do it tomorrow or speak to me. Only excused absences will be able to make up the Socratic Seminar and even if you’re excused, you’ll get an Incomplete for the six weeks and you won’t be UIL eligible. It’s also 30% of your grade.
Essay rewrites are due by next Wednesday. You can rewrite during FIT or after school by appointment. Monday or Wednesday is best.

2. Be ready by the bell. You have 15 minutes and I am keeping track!
Silent reading
Be ready by the bell. You have 15 minutes and I am keeping track!

3. Device of the Day: Theme & Thematic Statements
Theme is:
the central, underlying, and controlling idea or insight of a work of literature.
the idea the writer wishes to convey about the subject—the writer’s view of the world or a revelation about human nature.
Theme is NOT:
expressed in a single word
the purpose of a work
the moral
the conflict

4. Identifying Theme in Five Steps (Do this in your notebooks!)
To identify the theme, be sure that you’ve first identified the story’s plot, the way the story uses characterization, and the primary conflict in the story. Pick one of the stories we read this six weeks and follow the steps.
Use these steps to determine the theme for a work:
Summarize the plot by writing a one-sentence description for the exposition, the conflict, the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution.
(Take two minutes to do this in your notebook)

5. Step Two:
2. Identify the subject of the work. (Take one minute to brainstorm a few subjects)

6. Step Three: Identify the insight or truth that was learned about the subject.
In your notebook, answer the following questions:
How did the protagonist change?
What lesson did the protagonist learn from the resolution of the conflict?

7. Step Four: State how the plot presents the primary insight or truth about the subject.
What was the outcome of the conflict? What can you infer as a reader based on the outcome?

8. Step Five: Write your thematic statement
Write one or more generalized, declarative sentences that state what was learned and how it was learned.

9. Exit Ticket: Theme Short Answer- QUIZ GRADE
What is the theme of the story you chose? Use evidence from the selection to support your answer.
Remember if you want a “3” (A) you must explain how literary devices contribute to the theme.

10. Socratic Seminar Prep Time
Work on your Socratic seminar prep sheets. We will be doing an informal, practice Socratic next class after our test. You must have your prep sheet done by next class.

11. Grammar Focus: The Sentence Wringer- Is there a verb?
For your journal today, write for 7 minutes. For the last three minutes, look at your sentences and apply the “psst” test. Circle the verbs!