Week 17 (06/08-06/12/09)

06/08/09

Aim:Why did Sam and Bill sign the ransom note "TWO DESPERATE MEN"?

Do Now:

  1. Copy Word of the Day (brief definition, partsof speech, and the example sentence)
  2. Copy Daily Test Prep( question and answer)
  3. Read and copy ONE news summary
  4. On this Day in History ( after reading, copy down one snippet of On this Day in History )

Activities:

Read the short story "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry and answer the questions-

HW # 57 Comprehension
  1. Why do Sam and Bill need money?
  2. Who do they choose to kidnap?
  3. Why have they selected this particular person to kidnap?
  4. What is the boy doing when they pick him up? Is this foreshadowing?
  5. Where do they hide the boy after they kidnap him?
  6. Tell about four instances Sam and Bill encounter while they have "Red Chief".
  7. Why did Sam and Bill sign the ransom note "TWO DESPERATE MEN"?
  8. What is the father’s reaction to the ransom note?
  9. What is "Red Chief’s" reaction to finally being brought home?

Glossary:

  1. Undeleterious: harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way <deleterious effects> <deleterious to health>
  2. Philoprogenitiveness:1 : tending to produce offspring : prolific 2 : of, relating to, or characterized by love of offspring
  3. constables : a high officer of a royal court or noble household especially in the Middle Ages2: the warden or governor of a royal castle or a fortified town
  4. diatribe :1archaic : a prolonged discourse2: a bitter and abusive speech or writing3: ironic or satirical criticism
  5. provisions
  6. buzzard:any of various usually large birds of prey (as the turkey vulture)3: a contemptible or rapacious person
  7. imp:  a small demon : fiend b: a mischievous child : urchin
  8. reconnoitre: recognize
  9. yeomanry:
    1: the body of yeomen; specifically : the body of small landed proprietors of the middle class2: a British volunteer cavalry force created from yeomen in 1761 as a home defense force and reorganized in 1907 as part of the territorial force
  10. sylvan:one that frequents groves or woods; living or located in the woods or forest b: of, relating to, or characteristic of the woods or forest
  11. somnolent
  12. peremptory:putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay; specifically : not providing an opportunity to show cause why one should not comply <a peremptory mandamus>;expressive of urgency or command <a peremptory call>3 a: characterized by often imperious or arrogant self-assurance
  13. acceded: to become a party (as to an agreement) b: to express approval or give consent : give in to a request or demand2archaic : approach3: to enter upon an office or position
  14. solitary
  15. stockade: a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense2 a: an enclosure or pen made with posts and stakes b: an enclosure in which prisoners are kept
  16. surreptitiously:done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine 2 : acting or doing something clandestinely : stealthy <a surreptitious glance>
  17. wabbled-wobble: to move or proceed with an irregular rocking or staggering motion or unsteadily and clumsily from side to side b: tremble, quaver2: waver, vacillate
  18. depredation:to lay waste : plunder, ravage
  19. cauterized:to sear with a cautery or caustic <cauterize a wound> ;to make insensible : deaden <must oust the feeling, or cauterize it
  20. ineffable:incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable <ineffable joy> b: unspeakable <ineffable disgust>2: not to be uttered : taboo <the ineffable name of Jehovah>
  21. palatable
  22. calliope: capitalized : the Greek Muse of heroic poetry;a keyboard musical instrument resembling an organ and consisting of a series of whistles sounded by steam or compressed air
  23. trippingly:adv. a nimble or lively manner <the new name…may not roll trippingly off the tongue
HW Answer the "comprehension questions"( copy the questions)

06/09/09

Aim : If we planned to rewrite the story into a screen play for a movie production, what details/events from the story would we include and expand?

Do Now:

  1. Copy Word of the Day (brief definition, partsof speech, and the example sentence)
  2. Copy Daily Test Prep( question and answer)
  3. Read and copy ONE news summary
  4. On this Day in History ( after reading, copy down one snippet of On this Day in History )
  5. Elements of Drama (play):
    • Dialogues
    • Characterization
    • Setting
    • Stage Directions

Activities:

Analysis

  1. What point of view is the story told from?
  2. Plot analysis – Give specific details for each of the following:
    1. Exposition : the setting, emerging conflict, main characters and mood
    2. Conflict
    3. Rising Action
    4. Climax
    5. Falling Action
    6. Resolution
  3. What type of characterization is used: direct (the author tells the reader what kind of characters they are by using words such as brave, crude, intelligent) or indirect ( the author describes and shows the reader what the characters do or say ? How do we get to know the characters?
  4. Is there any irony in the story? What kind: verbal, situational, or dramatic? Explain.
  5. Write a sentence about the theme.
    HW # 58 Copy and answer the "Analysis" questions; plus-
A.What type of characterization is used: direct or indirect? How do we get to know the characters?

B. Is there any irony in the story? What kind: verbal, situational, or dramatic? Explain.

C. Write a sentence about the theme.

If we planned to rewrite the story into a screen play for movie production, what details would we include and expand?

  1. What kind of movie would this be (drama, comedy, tragedy, horror, or fantasy)?
  2. What setting would we use?
  3. What events should the movie include? In what sequence?
  4. Who( actors we know) should play the main characters-the boy "red chief", two kidnappers (Bill and Sam) and Dad?
  5. How do we want the story to end? Do we want to change the ending?
  6. What type of background music would we use ?What part of movie should we insert the music?
  7. Could we write a song for the movie?
  8. What title should we give the movie?

Extra Credit Work # 59 Create a poster:

Here is the format of what your poster presentation should look like-

Title of the Movie: The Ransom of the Red Chief  (genre-drama, horror)

Cast
John Trivolta-the boy’s father
Samuel Jackson-Sam
Bill Cosby-Bill

 Scenes:

Scene 1

-Setting: Summit, a remote town in Alabama
-Event (action): Sam and Bill kidnapped the “Red Chief”

 Scene 2

Setting: the Cave
Event (action):

 Scene 3

 Scene 4

 Ending: You may change the ending by adding more details or imagining what may happen to the devious Red Chief.

Create a Collage for the movie poster ( clip out images from newspaper or magazines and rearrange them in a way  that reveals the nature of the movie-The Ransom of the Red Chief). Remember you are trying to sell the movie. Visit the movie poster site.

Homework : Create an outline of the screen play including main characters (physical descriptions,  personality traits; setting; brief event descriptions).

Homework :Create a Collage for the movie poster ( clip out images from newspaper or magazines and rearrange them in a way  that reveals the nature of the movie). Remember you are trying to sell the movie. Visit the movie poster site.