Tuesday 11/17/15 ~ Out of the Tunnel

ROOTS

• mit, miss - send
• mob, mot, mov - move
• mon - warn, remind

SHORT STORIES

• Begin Short story #5 "Through the Tunnel"

Journal 29
1. Have you ever taken a risk to prove yourself before? Record a quick story to share.
2. Write a sentence using five of the SAT words from the list above.
3. Write an overview of the plot of Through the Tunnel using the bold terms from yesterday's notes (exposition, complication, rising action, climax, epiphany, falling action, denouement).
4. Do you find it convincing that Jerry takes such a large risk and survives? Why/why not?

SAT Vocab - Write a sentence using FIVE of these SAT words.

1. Contrition - a state of feeling crushed by guilt
2. luminous - bright or shining
3. supplication - the action of asking or begging for something earnestly or humbly
4. sputtering - spitting or spraying
5. beseeching - urgently requesting someone to do something
6. minute - tiny
7. clambered - to climb, move, or get out of something in an awkward or laborious way
8. incredulous - unbelievable
9. gout - a type of arthritis

• Click here to check out your Christmas Blessing Story assignment.

HW: Journal 30 ~ Short Story Start Up

1. Create a character sketch 100-200 word character sketch for your protagonist. Consider all the bits of the Indirect Characterization acronym, STEAL: How will you communicate to the reader how your protagonist speaks & sounds, thinks, interacts with others, acts and look?
2. Write a few ideas of the lesson or truth you'd like the reader to gain from your story.
*Please complete this assignment on a google doc so that it is ready to turn in digitally tomorrow.