November 6, 2017
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5
Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
E.Q: Define each component of a texts structure and identify each part in the Alchemist.
Determine a central idea of the text.
Starter:
Write an objective summary of pages 3-25 of the Alchemist.
This should be approximately 5 sentences long.
Vocabulary:
Word: Alchemist
Part of Speech; Noun
Dictionary Definition: a person who transforms or creates something through a seemingly magical process.
Your Definition:
Activity: Infer why the name of the book is the Alchemist.
Activity:
Take out the quotes that you were to identify over the weekend.
Select one quote that you think is the most interesting.
Write that quote on one side of an index card and on the other side write down why you chose it.
You will use these index cards to discuss the first 20 pages in small groups.
2. Plot Diagram
Discuss the exposition of the Alchemist.
Where is this taking place and why do you think it starts here?
Who is the main character and how is he characterized?
How does this relate to the idea of pursuing dreams?
Interpret the quote: " It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting, he thought, as he looked again at the position of the sun, and hurried his pace" (Coelho 11).
Discuss the conflict of the Alchemist.
Classify what type of conflict exists in the story.
(Man vs. Man, Man vs. Self, Man vs. Nature, or Man vs. Society)
What evidence exists to support this?
Read through the article linked above and take Cornell notes.
4. The Alchemist Pages 25-47
Read through the pages listed above.
As you read consider what the main idea of the pages are.
How does it further develop the conflict'?
Closure:
Evaluate the group work in the Save the Last Word for Me activity.
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