I am Ms. Wood, your student-teacher taking over for the next 5 weeks. I am really looking forward to working with you and getting to know you all better! My email is meglan@uvic.ca - email me if you have any questions!
We will be studying the novel Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. We retrieved the novel from Ms. Shelly, the librarian, today, so if you were not in class, be sure to go by the library and ask for your copy. We will be reading up to page 74 by Wednesday, April 30th.
Today we discussed the unique voice of the narrator in the novel, and we also completed a story prediction chart for the novel, which I will put below.
Please see also a Fiction Terms sheet which we will be using throughout the unit. You do not need to know all the terms, but it will be helpful to have the Terms sheet while discussing the parts of the novel. I will have a paper copy waiting for you.
For Thursday, think about one of your favourite books, as we will be having a Book-smack!
Thanks, Ms. Wood.
Story Prediction Example
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CLUE
WORDS
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STORY
PREDICTION
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Harbour
Voyage
Crew
Books,
instruments
Island,
water, fruit
Strange
Textured,
glowing
Heavy,
aboard
Stone
Shrieks,
fever
Danger,
storm
Horrifying
beasts
Doomed
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A
ship’s crew sailed out of the harbour on a voyage. Some
of the crew brought along books and instruments for the long
journey. While sailing across the ocean, they
discovered an island not marked on the map, filled with strange
water and fruit, They ate the succulent fruit not knowing what
effects they might have. On the island, one of the crew
members found a glowing stone and took it with him back to the
ship. They set sail, and every time the stone would glow they
heard shrieks and saw horrifying beasts in the water off the side
of the ship. They sailed through retched storms. The
crew worried that they were doomed to be followed by the beasts
and cursed by the stone or the delicious fruits from the
mysterious unmarked island.
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Story Prediction for
Curious Incident of the
Dog in the Night-time
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CLUE
WORDS
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STORY
PREDICTION
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Dog
Murder
mystery
Teenaged
boy
Lawn
Math
Autistic
Detective
Investigate
Strange
neighbours
Letters
Secrets
Father,
mother
Rat
Train
Ride
No
Map
Shouting
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Fiction
Terms
Narrator:
The
speaker who tells the story.
Voice:
1. The
author's style; the quality that makes his or her writing unique
2.
The characteristic speech and thought patterns of a first person
narrator.
Characterization:
A writer’s portrayal of a character through dialogue, actions,
appearance, habits, beliefs, way of speaking, etc
Dialogue:
Any conversation between characters or people.
Protagonist:
The main character in a story, novel or play.
Antagonist:
The
character who struggles or fights against the protagonist.
Setting:
The
time, place and circumstances in which a story, book, drama etc.
takes place.
Plot:
The
storyline or series of episodes.
Foreshadowing:
A
technique for providing clues about events that may happen later in
the story.
Flashback:
A
technique for presenting something that already happened to explain
the current (present) situation.
Suspense:
The
feeling of growing tension and excitement felt by the reader as the
plot develops.
Climax:
The
highest point of emotional intensity, usually the turning point.
Resolution:
The
conclusion of the story in which the problem or conflict is solved.
Conflict:The
struggle between opposing forces;
There
are 3 types:
Internal
conflict:(person
vs him/herself) A character must deal with his/her own thoughts and
feelings.
External
conflict: (person
vs environment) A character struggles against something in the
outside world.
Interpersonal
conflict (person
vs person) A character struggles against another character.
Theme(s):
main
ideas, messages, or underlying meanings of a literary work which may
be stated directly or indirectly.
Symbolism:
The use of a concrete object to stand for an abstract or more
complicated idea. For example, a lion symbolizing courage.
