May 14 - May 18

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Friday
1. Short story terms and devices  KAHOOT!
2. Evidence of Learning SELFRIE - get all those W1,  W2, W3, W4


Thursday
1. Short story terms and devices.
2. Finish reading your choice of 3 short stories and noting the techniques the authors use.

Wednesday
1. Read 1 or 2 short stories from those listed in OneNote.
2. The stories are listed below. The activities to do with the stories are noted in red below.

Short stories 
Most of the short stories below came from suggestions on this web site: http://www.shortstoryguide.com/short-stories-about-communication/ 

"Wrong Channel" http://blog.wsd.net/tsheffield/files/2010/09/Wrong-Channel.pdf 

"A Primer for the Puncutation of Heart Disease" by  Jonathan Safran Foer – http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~tobin/lj/2008/09/Foer.pdf 

"That Thing Around Your Neck "– Adichie  – available online http://icpla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Adichie-CN-The-Thing-Around-Your-Neck.pdf

"A Horse and Two Goats"  by R K Narayan – available online https://hi-static.z-dn.net/files/d44/865472ff2ebed4c986cd6158d2924

"The Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang – the movie Arrival is based on this novella(40 pages) - available online http://www.kameli.net/~raimu/rnd/ted-chiang-story-of-your-life-2000.pdf

"Who Said We All Have to Talk Alike"  by Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
 https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=Z3NoYXJlLmJsYWNrZ29sZC5jYXx0aGUtam9obnNvbi1jYWxtYXItZWRpdGlvbnxneDo2MGUyYmY3MTcxOTczNjRi
– available online 

Excerpt from Eat, Pray, Love 
http://www.smithmag.net/2006/02/22/an-excerpt-from-eat-pray-love/ 

"The Duolect"

Excerpt from A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
 http://www.secret-satire-society.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Anthony-Burgess-A-Clockwork-Orange.pdf 


During reading: keep track of devices, elements, techniques the writer uses AND the effect on the reader or the story. 

***After reading: Pick 3 devices/techniques used by the author. Provide a quote from the story to show the device in use. Explain the effect the device has on the reader's understanding or how the device enhances the story.  

***Which of our inquiry questions about language does this story attempt to answer in your opinion? 


Tuesday


Monday
1. 3 Questions about "Arrival" & gather answers. Put the chart into W4 Evidence of Learning.
2. Short stories related to language and the final task for this unit. Begin W4 Evidence of Learning.

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