Let’s get started!
• Grammar Pre-Assessment– Turn to page _____ in your
Grammar textbook.– Complete _________.
• This assessment will determine the method for grammar instruction over the next few weeks. PLEASE do your best!
Lesson EQ: How can context and background knowledge improve
my reading experience?
• What is oral tradition?– Oral Tradition is something that is passed down
from generation to generation through word of mouth. Sayings are told, but nothing is written.
Click the picture for a
few examples.
Folktales• Very similar to oral traditions, folktales are
actual stories; whereas, oral traditions are simply sayings or beliefs.
• Much like oral traditions, the main characters in folktales are often animals.
Lesson EQ: How can context and background knowledge improve my reading experience?
Joel Chandler Harris
“One of the South's most treasured authors, Joel Chandler Harris gained national prominence for his
numerous volumes of Uncle Remus folktales. Harris's long-standing legacy as a "progressive conservative" New South journalist, folklorist,
fiction writer, and children's author continues to influence our society today.” (Courtesy of the Georgia Encyclopedia.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A6hMfxt5gg
Lesson EQ: How can context and background knowledge improve my reading experience?
Let’s reflect…
• What did we learn about JCH’s personality?
• What was the most significant fact regarding JCH’s style of writing?
Lesson EQ: How can context and background knowledge improve my reading experience?
What do you think?
1. Consider the elements of Southern Literature (refer to your Anticipation Guide) and identify the one characteristic you think most relates to Joel Chandler Harris and the Uncle Remus stories. Convey your opinion in one complete sentence.
For example, I think Joel Chandler Harris is probably most renowned for __________ because…
2. Write one sentence to tell how you think dialect can engage a reader.
3. Based on today’s information, what do you expect from the stories that you will read this week?
Lesson EQ: How can context and background knowledge improve my reading experience?
Daily Grammar Practice
Simple Subjects
ELACC8RL4: The student will determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on
meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Lesson EQ: How can context and background knowledge improve my reading experience?
Understanding Folktales & Oral Tradition
What is dialect?
Dialect is a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties
and constituting together with them a single language.
What is our dialect like here in Quitman? Give some examples?
How is our dialect different from that of someone in Minnesota?
ELACC8RL4: The student will determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other
texts.
Lesson EQ: How can context and background knowledge improve my reading experience?
Local ColorRaise your hand and tell me what you think this
means as it pertains to literature.
Local color is distinctive, sometimes picturesque characteristics or peculiarities of a place or
period as represented in literature or drama, or as observed in reality.
ELACC8RL4: The student will determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on
meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Lesson EQ: How can context and background knowledge improve my reading experience?
Southern Lit Characteristics
Let’s add to our list…
Southern Draw/Slang/AccentSouthern Hospitality
Common Southern CourtesySouthern Dress
Geography/TerrainELACC8RL4: The student will determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in
a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Lesson EQ: How can context and background knowledge improve my reading experience?
Today’s Tasks:
Read “Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear”
Class Discussion
Group Reflection and Questions
ELACC8RL4: The student will determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on
meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Lesson EQ: How can context and background knowledge improve my reading experience?
ReflectionHow does the dialect and local color make this story
better?
How are the characters developed (characterization)?
Explain how the two (dialect/local color and characterization) affect how good the story turns out to
be for you, the reader.
Finally, make a connection to Elements of Southern Literature.
(Some connections may be a stretch, but see how creative you can be.)ELACC8RL4: The student will determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in
a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Lesson EQ: How can context and background knowledge improve my reading experience?
Before we go…Answer the following questions to help me
determine your listening/comprehension skills:
1. What was Brer Rabbit eating?2. Whose field was Brer Rabbit eating out of?3. How many times did he trick Brer Bear?4. How did he trick Brer Bear?5. What is the moral of the story?ELACC8RL4: The student will determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in
a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Lesson EQ: How can context and background knowledge improve my reading experience?
Grammar
ELACC8RL3: The student will analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision
Lesson EQ: How can I recognize and create the elements of an excellent story?
POP QUIZYour task: Identify the Southern Literature characteristic each of the
following reflects:
1. Slavery2. Corn, cotton, tobacco3. Preacher4. Family reunions5. Yall, fixin, mawnin’
6. Of the five characteristics represented above, write one complete sentence to describe which characteristic makes a text most engaging.
– Ex. I think ________ is the most
ELACC8RL3: The student will analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision
Lesson EQ: How can I recognize and create the elements of an excellent story?
Understanding What Propels a Story
What is plot?
Plot is what happens in the story.
ELACC8RL3: The student will analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision
Lesson EQ: How can I recognize and create the elements of an excellent story?
Applying Your Knowledge• Exposition - introduces the reader to the
setting and characters.• Inciting incident - this event creates the
central conflict or struggle. • The development - part of the story
where the struggle takes place. • The climax - the high point of interest
and suspense in the story.• The resolution - point at which the
conflict is ended, or resolved.
• Reflect on your reading of Mr. Rabbit & Mr. Bear
• Create a plot map to show your understanding of the action in the story.
ELACC8RL3: The student will analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision
Lesson EQ: How can I recognize and create the elements of an excellent story?
What’s next?
• Watch and learn
• Your Task:– Create a narrative based on a memory of a significant
event in your life, perhaps your childhood. Choose an event that will be engaging for readers and that will, at the same time, tell them something about you or about someone who is a significant part of your life. Tell your story dramatically and vividly, giving a clear indication of its autobiographical significance. Implement tonal attitudes and opinions, along with a central idea or lesson.
ELACC8RL3: The student will analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision
Lesson EQ: How can I recognize and create the elements of an excellent story?
Take a look…
ELACC8W3: The student will write a narrative to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant
descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences
How will you be assessed?
• Focus/Organization– 15 points
• Elaboration/Support/Style– 15 points
• Grammar, Usage, Mechanics– 10 points
40 Points Possible
ELACC8W3: The student will write a narrative to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant
descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences
Grammar
Lesson EQ: How can I recognize and create the elements of an excellent story?
• Continue Writing – Your narrative should
be ENGAGING!– Remember the
elements of the plot map.
• Are the events of your story apparent to the reader? Clear? Descriptive?
ELACC8W3: The student will write a narrative to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences
Lesson EQ: How can I recognize and create the elements of an excellent story?
• Peer Edit:– After you write your story, you will share your composition with a partner.– Use this handout to guide your review of your peer’s narrative writing.– Be honest and fair, but don’t be so rude that someone wants to never return to class!
ELACC8W3: The student will write a narrative to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences
Complete the following statements:– A narrative writing is…– The structure of a narrative writing is
most engaging when…– On a scale of 1-10, I give my first
narrative of 8th grade a _____ because…
Lesson EQ: How can I recognize and create the elements of an excellent story?
ELACC8W3: The student will write a narrative to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences
Activator
Quickwrite
What makes a good story?
Minimum of a 4 sentence response to the prompt.
Read
Open up the Blue Literature Book to page 452 so that we can read an
African American Folktale: “Brer Rabbit and Brer Lion”.
What is in this story that keeps you interested, keeps you reading, and
makes it a good story?
Comparison to Uncle Remus “Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear”
Three sentence reflection for each