2. Sponge Activity
1. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Describe the taste for someone who has
never tasted it.
2. What is your favorite musical instrument?
Describe the sound of the instrument for
someone who has never heard it.
3. Lesson Objectives
Today we will:
Hand in signed Progress Reports
-Review class participation
-Review speaking and listening in class
Finish/ review The Invalid’s Story
-Understand the plot structure of The Invalid’s
Story
-Understand setting and using our senses
-Review vocabulary from The Invalid’s Story and
The Man to Send Rain Clouds
4. Invalid’s Story Plot Structure
• Review handout
• Follow the directions ON THE HANDOUT
• Complete the handout and turn it in before the
end of class
1. Exposition: Where does the story take place? Who are the main
characters?
2. Conflict: What is the major conflict of the story?
3. Rising Action: What events lead up to the climax of the story?
4. Climax: What is the turning point of the story?
5. Falling Action: What events happen after the climax?
6. Resolution: How does the story end? What loose ends are tied up?
5. Vocabulary Review
• Turn to page 589 of the text book
• Read the definitions of the nine vocabulary
words at the bottom of the page
• Cloister, Pagans, Perverse, Prodigious, Deleterious,
Ominous, Judicious, Placidly, Desultory)
• Pick five of the words and write one
sentence using each of the FIVE words in
your notebook (five sentences total)
• Underline the vocabulary words in your
sentences
6. Test on Monday
• Rain Cloud Story
• The Invalid’s Story
• We will review the test
• Review your vocabulary
7. Preview-Monday
• Test
• Informational Text
– Group activity
– Jigsaw a book on “How to Improve Your Grades”
– Discuss
• Group Work expectations
• Presentation Rubric
• Summarizing a reading
