+.BOA for “A Christmas Memory”

Bell ringer: DOG (with your partner write down your answers to the 4 questions on the board.)

Objectives for this unit:

Understand and use vocabulary words (power point of visuals)

Analyze connotation and denotation of words

Read and interpret “A Christmas Memory”

Note indirect characterization and methods of characterization

Make inferences about character

Express understanding through writing and oral presentation

Analyze figures of speech

Agenda:

Bell ringer-DOG

Objectives/Agenda

Read “A Christmas Memory” pp. 177

Classwork/homework: Complete the 14 comprehension questions

Idioms- “Stuffing biscuit” “skinflint” “yonder ways” “twobits cash” “a dollar, my foot” “struck our fancy”

Idioms help to establish setting-REGIONALISM

Regionalism: a linguistic feature peculiar to a particular region and not part of the standard language of a country.

Denotation: (dictionary meaning) -direct, specific meaning

Connotation: suggestions of a meaning by inference

ALL MEAN THIN:

SLENDER SLIM THIN SKINNY SCRAWNY

Connotations?

All MEAN: following through regardless of the obstacles

Persistent tenacious persevering unyielding obstinate stubborn

Answers:

1. Inaugurating- positive 6. Carnage-negative

2. Exhilarates- positive 7. Prosaic- negative

3. dilapidated-negative 8. Disposition-neutral

4. paraphernalia- neutral 9. Suffuse-neutral

5. Sacrilegious- negative 10. Noncommittal-neutral/negative

DOG (Daily Oral Grammar)-Identify the type of error, if any, in each underlined passage.

(1.) One of the best qualitys of the human spirit is generosity- especially the (2.) generosity of those who dont have much themselves. “A Christmas Memory” is about two characters and their Christmas rituals. The story reveals something about (3.) freindship; it also reveals how love endures. Capote’s story draws on (4.) his boyhood in alabama where he was raised by relatives.

1. A spelling 2. A spellingB. capitalization B. capitalizationC. punctuation C. punctuationD. no error D. no error

3. A. spelling 4. A. spellingB. capitalization B. capitalizationC. punctuation C. PunctuationD. no error D. no error

Bell ringer: Read page 176 Meet the Writer “A Turtle on Its Back” and discuss with your partner why Capote used this simile/metaphor (?) to describe his life.

Objectives for today:

Read and interpret “A Christmas Memory” (page 177-188)

Express understanding through writing and oral presentation

Agenda:

Bell ringer/Trailer for Capote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4BvvJ69pIQ

Finish the story, if needed.

Finish comprehension questions!

Prohibition in the US, also known as The Noble Experiment, was the period from 1919 to 1933, during which the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol was banned nationally as mandated in the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution.

Fruitcake song

Bell Ringer: “Gets her goat” is an example of ____________.

Objectives: SWBAT analyze figures of speech.SWBAT express understanding through writing and oral presentation.

Agenda: Bell ringer/Objectives

Journal entry: “A Christmas Memory” 1 full page

Class discussion questions

Figures of Speech Review (Last page of packet)

Exercises A and B (student examples for B next page)

Biography of Truman Capote-

https://www.yout ube.com/watch?v=bfWMAReGazY

…her breath caresses the window.

..savoring each bite, as if it was candy, that you only get once a year.

…the fire sings a heavenly song as if it were an angel.

…sleep soundly, like the sun at night

The stove was as black as the night sky.

…After the last pecan screams when it’s cracked…

He is a hawk, as he watches his friend.

…of a fire dancing in warmth.

Fruitcakes, nasty like an old lady when you walk through her yard.

Fruit cake Lament

Bell Ringer: “My stories run up and bite me in the leg -- I respond by writing them down -- everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.” -Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (b. 1920-2012)

This is an example of what?

Methods of Characterization with a partner

Objectives:

*SWBAT analyze figures of speech.*SWBAT note indirect characterization and methods of characterization.

*SWBAT make inferences about character.Agenda: Bell ringer/finish notes for indirect characterization

Objectives/Agenda

Class Discussion: metaphor, similes, personification

Figures of Speech Review (Last page of packet)

Exercises A and B (student examples for B previous slide)

Methods of Characterization

Class Discussion

Physical appearance-“A woman with shorn white hair is standing at the kitchen window. She is wearing tennis shoes and a shapeless gray sweater over a summery calico dress. She is small and sprightly, like a bantam hen; but, due to a long youthful illness, her shoulders are pitifully hunched. Her face is remarkable-not unlike Lincoln’s, craggy like that, and tinted by sun and wind; but it is delicate too, finely boned, and her eyes are sherry-colored and timid…”

List: “In addition to never having seen a movie, she has never: eaten in a restaurant, traveled more than five miles from home, received or sent a telegram, read anything except funny papers and the Bible, worn cosmetics, cursed, wished someone harm, told a lie on purpose, let a hungry dog go hungry. Here are a few things she has done, does do: killed with a hoe the biggest rattlesnake ever seen in this county (sixteen rattles), dip snuff (secretly), tame hummingbirds (just try it) till they balance on her finger, tell ghost stories (we both believe in

ghosts) so tingling they chill you in July, talk to herself, take walks in the rain, grow the prettiest japonicas in town, know the recipe for every sort of old-time Indian cure, including a magical wart-remover.”

Epiphanynoun, plural -nies. 1. (initial capital letter ) a Christian festival, observed on January 6,

commemorating the manifestation of Christ to the gentiles in the persons of the Magi; Twelfth-day.

2. an appearance or manifestation, esp. of a deity.3. a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential

meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience.

4. a literary work or section of a work presenting, usually symbolically, such a moment of revelation and insight.

In literature it means a sudden, intuitive revelation.

Bell Ringer: Watch the movie trailer for the

animated version of “A Christmas Carol” starring Jim Carrey as I collect your journals!

Methods of Characterization:

Objectives:

Students will recognize methods of characterization

Students will identify indirect and direct methods of characterization

Students will analyze author’s use of characterization as a literary device

Literary analysis-reread to solve problems, make decisions, and draw conclusions

Extend literary experience through response/discussion in small groups and reporting to the class

Agenda:Bell ringer

Objectives/Agenda

Power Point: “Character: Revealing Human Nature”

Discussion Activity- Challenge students to work in pairs to come up with at least two characterizations that could account for the following actions:

Misplaces something

Cheats at cards

Cooks an elaborate dinner

Types all homework

Stars in school play

Offers to clean garage

Cooperative Learning groups-each group will be asked to explain one of the five methods of indirect characterization to the class and give an example from one of the stories that we have read. Graphic organizer/chart on poster paper will be posted in the classroom.

Homework: Students will complete the graphic organizer (Character Analysis) for “A Christmas Memory”.

Extension to Reader’s Workshop:

Students will analyze a character from their independent reading book during reader’s workshop. Complete the reading entry with quotes and explanations of how these quotes are examples of the different types of characterization.

Optional Lesson: What is a Screenplay?

Extra credit opportunities!

Read pp. 155-159

What is a Screenplay?

A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. A play for television is known as a teleplay.

Format and style

The format is structured in a way that one page usually equates to one minute of screen time.

The major components are action and dialogue. The "action" is written in the present tense. (*Use parenthesis around these stage directions.)

The "dialogue" is the lines the characters speak.

The style consists of a grammar that is specific to screenplays. A prose that focuses largely on what is audible and what is visible on screen.

Screenwriter - Screenwriting as a Career

Job Description:

The screenwriter is the writer of the script of a film. They create the dialogue, the characters and the story line of a movie script. The screenwriter is often the most essential person in film production because no movie can start without some form of a script.

Like television writers, screenwriters often specialize in a particular genre. Comedy writers write comedy, drama writers write drama, science fiction writers write sci-fi and so on and so on. Screenwriters are extremely adept at weaving together visual elements within plot and dialogue. It is their work that provides the directors, producers, actors and executives a project to work on in the first place.

Screenwriter -- Skills & Education :

Many people are under the incorrect belief that one must attend film school or have a degree in creative writing to be a successful screenwriter. While in fact, most screenwriters initially started out in other disciplines whether it be an advertising executive like Lawrence Kasdan or a history teacher like Steve Faber. There are numerous creative writing courses that you can take that will help you develop your craft, but the fastest way to becoming a good writer is by writing. In writing screenplays, the simple act of writing a script from beginning to end is like taking a class.

Screenwriters truly come from all walks of life and it's that life that makes them unique. The "voice" of a screenwriter is developed from the life they lead. They provide unique and engaging characters using their past experiences. Many screenwriters will tell you that they base the characters, plot lines and much of the dialogue of a script on real events, places and people they've come across. Thus, it is essential that if you plan on becoming a screenwriter that you begin by observing the world around you.

Screenwriter Career Advice:

The best screenwriters are students of life. They observe people, places and things on a higher plane. They watch interactions and relationships with great interest because they know that they might be able to translate those experiences into stories later on. Learn to observe and write as much as you can. Screenwriting is truly one of the more difficult careers because there is nothing more daunting then staring at a blank sheet of paper and trying to give it life. Almost all writers no matter how successful will often tell you that writing is the hardest thing they have ever done.

The key is to develop passion, persistence and patience. A good story takes time to develop. Characters need a writer to give them life and if you rush the process, you're inevitably going to be disappointed with the end result. One last piece of advice, is never write for money. That doesn't mean don't get paid for your work, it means if you're getting into screenwriting because you think it will make you rich, then look to other careers. The financial rewards are certainly there, but only for those who develop their craft first.

Fruitcake extra credit options In celebration of the short story, “A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote, Mrs. Metzger is offering some extra credit for those “in need” this quarter.

Fruitcake Limerick/Poetry- Submit a limerick or poem that prominently features fruitcake in its theme. Will you become the fruitcake poet laureate? (Five lines-AABBA rhyme scheme, 3-3-2-2-3 stress pattern.) 15 pts.

Fruitcake Essay- Submit a story that begins with the sentence- “Let me tell you what happened to Grandma’s fruitcake.” (Typed, double-spaced, 400 words) 15 pts.

On a recipe card copy a fruitcake recipe. (5 pts.)

Bring in a store bought fruitcake to share with the class when we watch the movie version of “A Christmas Memory”. (10 pts.)

Bring in a homemade fruitcake (that you baked) to share with the class when we watch the movie. (15 pts.)

BOA for “A Christmas Memory” movie day

Bell Ringer: What is a screenplay?

Objectives: Think about the following questions as you watch the television version starring Donnie Melvin and Geraldine Page:

1. How is this opening similar to the opening of the short story?2. In what ways do the details of the setting create an

atmosphere, or feeling, that is similar to the feeling in the short story?

3. Do the representations of the main characters correspond with the mental images of them you created while reading?

4. Screen writers tend to avoid the disruption of an action sequence with a long speech. Why might the writer include a lengthy voice-over narration?

5. Here, as in the story, Buddy’s cousin is not given a name. Why do you think this is the case?

6. How does the camera carry out the job of indirect characterization? What are the methods of characterization used?

A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. A play for television is known as a teleplay. PAGE 155

Format and style

The format is structured in a way that one page usually equates to one minute of screen time.

The major components are action and dialogue. The "action" is written in the present tense. (*Use parenthesis around these stage directions.)

The "dialogue" is the lines the characters speak.

The style consists of a grammar that is specific to screenplays. A prose that focuses largely on what is audible and what is visible on screen.

Screenwriter - Screenwriting as a Career

Job Description:

The screenwriter is the writer of the script of a film. They create the dialogue, the characters and the story line of a movie script. The screenwriter is often the most essential person in film production because no movie can start without some form of a script.

Like television writers, screenwriters often specialize in a particular genre. Comedy writers write comedy, drama writers write drama, science fiction writers write sci-fi and so on and so on. Screenwriters are extremely adept at weaving together visual elements within plot and dialogue. It is their work that provides the directors, producers, actors and executives a project to work on in the first place.

Screenwriter -- Skills & Education :

Many people are under the incorrect belief that one must attend film school or have a degree in creative writing to be a successful screenwriter. While in fact, most screenwriters initially started out in other disciplines whether it be an advertising executive like Lawrence Kasdan or a history teacher like Steve Faber. There are numerous creative writing courses that you can take that will help you develop your craft, but the fastest way to becoming a good writer is by writing. In writing screenplays, the simple act of writing a script from beginning to end is like taking a class.

Screenwriters truly come from all walks of life and it's that life that makes them unique. The "voice" of a screenwriter is developed from the life they lead. They provide unique and engaging characters using their past experiences. Many screenwriters will tell you that they base the characters, plot lines and much of the dialogue of a script on real events, places and people they've come across. Thus, it is essential that if you plan on becoming a screenwriter that you begin by observing the world around you.

Screenwriter Career Advice:

The best screenwriters are students of life. They observe people, places and things on a higher plane. They watch interactions and relationships with great interest because they know that they might be able to translate those experiences into stories later on. Learn to observe and write as much as you can. Screenwriting is truly one of the more difficult careers because there is nothing more daunting then staring at a blank sheet of paper and trying to give it life. Almost all writers no matter how successful will often tell you that writing is the hardest thing they have ever done.

The key is to develop passion, persistence and patience. A good story takes time to develop. Characters need a writer to give them life and if you rush the process, you're inevitably going to be disappointed with the end result. One last piece of advice, is never write for money. That doesn't mean don't get paid for your work, it means if you're getting into screenwriting because you think it will make you rich, then look to other careers. The financial rewards are certainly there, but only for those who develop their craft first.

Remember: Your book project is due this

Finish watching “A Christmas Memory”

Discussion of the questions about the movie

Return and go over the test.

Reminder of Projects due on Thursday (rubrics on the counter/think-tac-toe sheets up front!)

Journal entry (choice from the list) Organize your journal.

Please staple the half-slip to the back of the first page. Add Metzger $ (if needed) goes on the front. Read quietly after you finish the test.

Please pick up the Unit #8 vocabulary packet. 17. When my pet hamster died suddenly, my friends were unable to _______

18. When we are discussing a serious problem like drug abuse, I feel that…

“Completing the Sentence” is due on Monday. Synonyms/antonyms sections are due on Tuesday. Choosing the Right Word and Vocab. in Context are due on Wednesday. TEST on THURSDAY, NOT FRIDAY OF NEXT WEEK! (1/2 day and pep rally schedule!)