Short Stories & Skills Review Stations

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1 Short Stories & Skills Review Stations

2 Station 1: Identifying Irony 1. Copy the notes from my website onto your graphic organizer a. Go to the LMS webpage b. Click on my name under school staff c. Find the Short Stories & Skills Review on the assignments page d. Notes will be in that category 2. Complete the identifying irony graphic organizer and turn in to the class tray.

3 Station 2: Conflict & Characterization 1. Create this chart on your own sheet of paper. You will need 5 places under internal conflict & 7 under external conflict. 2. Using the conflict strips, place them in the appropriate column. a. If it is internal, write the conflict from the strip, describe the conflict in the context of the story, and state which story the conflict comes from. b. If it is external, do all the same steps as internal AND tell me what type of external conflict it is (Man vs. Man; Man vs. Society; Man vs. Nature; etc). 3. On the BACK of your conflict chart, create a character sketch using the handout as a guide. You may use indirect text evidence, BUT you must include the following: a. Personality traits for each part of STEAL...5 total b. Two personality traits for direct characterization c. Clothes for your character 4. Turn in conflict chart and character sketch to the class tray.

4 Station 3: Theme 1. Copy the handout that is in the sheet protector on your own sheet of paper. 2. Then, one person from your group will read aloud the definition of theme. 3. Discuss with your group what theme means to you and where you have witnessed theme before. 4. Look at the common themes and provide a few examples with your group of where you have seen some of these themes. 5. Provide three movies and the overall theme of each movie in the chart on your graphic organizer. 6. On the lime green graphic organizer, you are going to pick one out of the three short stories to focus on. You will use the three questions from the Theme handout to determine what the overall theme of the short story is. Using those questions and direct text evidence, fill in the graphic organizer to show your understanding of the theme.

5 Create the three boxes on your own sheet of paper exactly as they are on the handout! Station 4: Setting/Mood 1. On the Setting & Mood graphic organizer, the first thing you will do is create a piece of artwork using the top box and markers. In the box, draw what you believe is the most powerful setting within the three short stories that we have read. You only have to choose one setting from one of the short stories. 2. In this box on the graphic organizer, provide your artwork with a title based on the mood that the setting presents. Then explain why you gave your artwork this title and how the setting shows the mood of this setting. 3. On the back of this sheet, write down the setting for Part I, II, and III of The Monkey s Paw along with the mood the setting reflects. 4. After you have determined each setting and mood for Parts I, II, and III of The Monkey s Paw on the back of this sheet, flip back to the front and use the bottom right box to explain how the setting presents the mood you have written down.

6 Station 5: Figurative Language 1. On your figurative language handout, complete the following: a. Write the quote from the story that contains the type of figurative language from the first column. b. Cite each quote correctly i. TTH citation: (Poe p#). ii. TMP citation: (Jacobs p#). iii. TLL citation: (Dahl p#). 2. After writing the quote and citation, explain how the figurative language fits in the story. 3. When finished, turn in to the class tray.

7 Station 6: Reading Passages 1. Complete the tasks for each reading passage. 2. When you finish, turn in to the class tray.