Happy Tuesday 8th Grade!
Today, we are going to continue working with Story Devices, but today we are only going to focus on foreshadowing. Take out your notebooks, open to your mini-lesson section, skip a line or two, and let's write today's statement.
Readers identify different types of foreshadow as a way to analyze the deeper meanings in more difficult stories.
Now let's take a few notes about the types of foreshadow:
self-publishingschool.com/literary-devices/#foreshadowing
After you watch the video, I want you to go back to 'An Occurrence at the Owl Creek Bridge' and reread it. (I will put a link to the story at the end of today's lesson.) Jot down the different types of foreshadows, as well as the other story devices we learned yesterday. You do not need to submit this to me because tomorrow, we will do a culminating activity with all of this information.
To Dos:
Today, we are going to continue working with Story Devices, but today we are only going to focus on foreshadowing. Take out your notebooks, open to your mini-lesson section, skip a line or two, and let's write today's statement.
Readers identify different types of foreshadow as a way to analyze the deeper meanings in more difficult stories.
Now let's take a few notes about the types of foreshadow:
- 4 Types of Foreshadow
- Concrete
- Objects, people, places, colors, or events
- May not be obvious forms of foreshadow the first time you read...you will have to reread to get the meaning
- Think about 'Out of My Mind' when Melody & her mom go to dinner with the Whiz Kids Team...this is a foreshadow to why they do not invite Melody to breakfast the day of the blizzard
- Abstract
- Using the Senses!
- Subtle hints...not always right under our noses
- Looking at the thoughts/feelings a character has, the way a character acts, the weather, the mood of the story
- Think about 'Out of my Mind', the snow storm is definitely a subtle hint that something is going to go wrong for the Brooks family
- Prophecy
- A prophecy, or fortune, is stated
- It might be unclear at the time, but by the end of the story it becomes true.
- Think about the prophecy in the 'Harry Potter' series...it is set up early on and followed through by the end
- A prophecy, or fortune, is stated
- Fallacy (aka Red Herring)
- A smoke screen that tricks the reader
- The reader becomes distracted or confused
- In 'Counting by 7s', when Patti Ngyuen spends more time at the nail salon, when in reality she begins dating Jairo Hernandez
- A smoke screen that tricks the reader
- Concrete
self-publishingschool.com/literary-devices/#foreshadowing
After you watch the video, I want you to go back to 'An Occurrence at the Owl Creek Bridge' and reread it. (I will put a link to the story at the end of today's lesson.) Jot down the different types of foreshadows, as well as the other story devices we learned yesterday. You do not need to submit this to me because tomorrow, we will do a culminating activity with all of this information.
To Dos:
- Write down your mini-lesson statement.
- Write all notes in bold about the different types of foreshadowing.
- Watch the video that goes into more depth about foreshadow.
- Reread 'An Occurrence at the Owl Creek Bridge', if you have a printed copy, annotate on it; if you do not, write your annotations in your notebook. The link is below.
- Save this information for tomorrow's lesson!