Tuesday, 2/1: Commas, Vocab, Giver

BOOK CHECK #1!!!

Also checking defs and 2-1-1’s.

Quickie:

  • Statements like, “You want to go to the mall, don’t you?”
  • Euphemisms like “collateral damage.”

Which rhetorical device (argument technique) that we learned about yesterday are these examples of?


“Warm Up, 2/1.”

Do page 259 in the BoB with the following additional instruction:

  • After each sentence, write which of the 4 types of intro phrases it uses.

“Vocab, 2/1.” Each Word Once. (Unscrupulous counts as a separate word.)


Giver 1,2.” Not collaborative, but open book.  (9p)

  1. What two words did Asher confuse?
  2. What word does Jonas finally settle on to describe his feelings?
  3. Why does everyone know that Lily’s comment about keeping Gabriel has to be a joke?
  4. What rule did Jonas’s father break?
  5. What rule gets broken all the time?
  6. What happens at the ceremony of 12?
  7. How is that decision made?
  8. We are in the ______ of the story.  exposition, rising action, inciting incident, falling action, climax, resolution
  9. The Giver is told in _____  (1st, 2nd, or 3rd) person?

Start 3, 4 aloud…