English Language Arts 9

LA9U3L1+2“Short Stories”

Agenda for the Day

1. Post-Reading of “Gore”.

2. Character Map

3. Eat.of.our.food

4. Post-Reading of “Lamb to the Slaughter”

5. Discussion of bias and stereotyping

6. Workshop: “Creating Dialogue”

Post-Reading

Are you surprised that Lucas fell for Amy’s performance?

What are your reactions to the end of the story?

Character Map

Journal Entry

Post-Reading“Lamb to the Slaughter”

Discussion of bias and stereotyping.

Where is it evident in the story?

Dialogue p. 119

“Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!”

Workshop: Creating Dialogue

Group Work: In groups you are going to create a document called “Guidelines for Developing Dialogue”.

This document should contain at LEAST 5 tips that will help others write effective dialogue.

Each tip should have an example.

What’s Coming Up?

1. Closure and challenge….see your lessons.

2. Our Winter Break!!!

Any questions??