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Mother Fletcher's Gift
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Mother Fletcher's Gift Focus Question: Why should we care about people we don't know? Skills and Strategies Character ·Characters are the people or animals in the story ·Understanding of characters comes from looking at their actions and what they say. You also learn about them by the way others act toward them ·Characters have two types of traits: physical and personality Summarize To summarize you state the most important details or ideas. You can summarize what a character is like
____________________________________________________________ Write to Read p. 42
1. (web)
2. short summary
VOCAB CHART Term Synonyms Definintion Sentence 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. See textbook for list of vocab words p# 44 Use the theasaurus for synonyms Textbook glossary for definitions Create your own sentence 7-10 words long
STORY ELEMENTS SETTING: location and time period of a story (where and when) CHARACTERS: people or animals who take part in the events of a story POINT OF VIEW: the perspective from which the story is told CONFLICT: the struggle or clash that the character is experiencing PLOT: the action of sequence of main events in a story CLIMAX: the point where the story has built up to its highest peak but has not yet been solved THEME: the underlying meaning or message in a text TONE: the attitude the author takes toward the subject MOOD: the feeling created in the reader _________________________________________ Story Map SETTING: present day in a New York neighborhood CHARACTERS: Mother Fletcher, Bill O'Brien, Kathy, and Meaghan Traits for Mother Fletcher: feisty, assertive, strong minded, not intimidated, elderly but with a youthful personality, active, thoughtful, generous, kind, likes things clean, can knit, wise, sly Traits for Bill:polite, hardworker, curious, prejudice, grumpy POINT OF VIEW: Third Person (narrator tells the story) from Bill's view point - The narrator calls him Officer O'Brien when Bill is working, and calls him just Bill when he is off duty. AUTHOR'S PURPOSE: to entertain THEME: Don't judge a book by it's cover. We shouldn't judge people by what they wear, how they look, or where they live. MOOD: serious
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