Plot Poster Projects

Periods 5 & 6 on Wednesday, September 21, 2016 and Periods 1, 2, & 7 on Thursday, September 22, 2016.

Students worked in pairs on their plot poster projects which show the interaction of the two major conflicts in Saki's "The Interlopers":  human v. human and humans v. nature.

Mr. Stone distributed a large piece of construction paper, two white sheets of manipulative text, and two pieces of yarn to each pair.

Each pair of students designated one person for the labeler role and one for the cutter role.  The cutter  cut out each of the manipulative texts and the labeler labeled each piece to indicate the order of the events in the story and to indicate to which conflict the event corresponded.

Mr. Stone drew a diagram on the board to show the students how the two plot lines interacted.  Students arranged a purple piece of yarn to represent the human v. human plot line and a green piece of ear to represent the humans v. nature plot line.

Due to the demands of the poster project, the quiz over "One Ordinary Day with Peanuts" was postponed until the next class period.

Homework:  Review "One Ordinary Day with Peanuts."  A quiz over this story will be given at the beginning of the next class period.  Students will spend the remainder of that period working on their poster projects.  Students should be able to finish the project during this second class period devoted to the project; however, if students do not complete their poster project during that class period, they will be able to turn it in at the beginning of the first class period next week.