TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2011

• MATERIALS: Sleepy Hollow Play, Figurative Language worksheet, Story Elements chart

• AGENDA: – Figurative Language hunt– Read Sleepy Hollow scenes: 1 through 4– Complete plot diagram

Figurative Language Hunt

• Meteors glare across the valley• Feet that might serve as shovels• Salem witch trials• Birch stick sings once• I’m as hungry as an ox.• Eerie glow on her dumpling face• Whoops and howls suddenly split the air• Ichabod’s green eyes grow as large as plates

• Shadowy woods• His nasal notes wound their ears• Katrina’s cheeks are soft and rosy as peaches• Her lips are as ripe as red berries• Broad-shouldered and double-jointed• Hair as black as a bear’s• His mouth waters when he feasts his eyes on the

fields of wheat, rye, corn and orchards of fruit.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2011

• MATERIALS: Sleepy Hollow play, figurative language worksheet, story elements chart

• AGENDA– Read scenes 7,8,and 9– Complete Figurative Language chart– Finish elements sheet: theme and resolution

– Test Prep packet pgs. 12 and 13