1. Do Now: November 14th, 2017
Put your myth in the drawer for 3rd period.
Take out a clean sheet of loose leaf notebook paper.
Put your name in the upper right hand corner.
Copy the chart on the board with the examples onto your paper.
You will be completing the chart for each presenter today.
Your paper will be a quiz grade.
You will not be allowed to ask the presenter questions, so listen closely.
If the presenter does not have one of the parts in his/her writing, then you may write the word none. However, if you write none and the part was present in the writing, you will get points taken off.

2. Review: Look at blog Figurative Language: Understanding the Concept
busy as a bee
clean as a whistle
brave as a lion
stand out like a sore thumb
the world is my oyster
you are a couch potato
time is money
opportunity knocked on the door
the sun greeted me this morning
You snore louder than a freight train.
Using an image of the American flag to represent patriotism and a love for one’s country.
Using an apple to represent education.
Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.
the burning wood hissed and crackled
the words: beep, whirr, click, whoosh, swish, zap, zing, ping, clang, bong, hum, boom, munch, gobble, crunch, pow, smash, wham, quack, meow, oink, and tweet.
Kick the bucket
Raining cats and dogs

3. Review
An object, a person, a place that stands for something else; provides greater meaning
Revision, antecedent, symbol
Group of words with a subject and verb and makes a complete thought
Symbol, Independent clause, atecedent
A word, phrase, or clause that is later replaced by pronouns
Symbol, myth, antecedent
Writing that tells a story or describes a sequence of events
Narrative, looping, independent clause
Revising strategy – author underlines important idea and adds more elaboration sentences often with figurative language
Looping, QHT

4. Review
A story with an oral tradition that explains, teaches, and entertains
Myth or narrative
The suggested or implied meaning or emotion associated with a word, beyond its literal definition
Denotation, connotation, antecedent, coherence
The way one thing influences or acts upon another
Effect or coherence
Vocabulary strategy: you reflect on how well you know the word
QHT or looping
Clear and logical order of ideas throughout a paragraph with the use of transitions
Coherence or connotation
Independent, dependent clause, or phrase
She went to the store.
Before she went to the store
Before lunch

5. Plot Diagram Exposition Rising Action Climax Falling action Resolution
May include a reflection; the “tying up of loose ends”
Often includes the consequences; leads to the ending
Conflicts and complications that develop a story
Background information on characters and setting
A turning point in a story; moment of greatest suspense