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Setting the Tone: Journal Writing
If someone asked you to do
something dangerous, would you
accept their challenge or turn it
down? Elaborate on your decision.
Make text to text or personal
connection.
Crafting:
Character
Plot
Theme
A person, animal, or
imaginary creature
that takes part in the
action of a story.
Sequence of
events in a
story.
Main or
central idea
of the story
Developed through:
* words
* description
* comments
from
other
characters
* behavior
Cause and Effect
“The Most Dangerous Game”
Richard Connell
… He leaped upon the rail and balanced himself there, to get greater elevation; his
pipe, striking a rope, was knocked from his mouth. He lunged too far and had lost his balance.
The cry was pinched off short as the blood-warm waters of the Caribbean Sea closed over his
head.
He struggled up the surface and tried to cry out, but the wash from the speeding yacht
slapped him in the face and the salt water in his open mouth made him gage and strangle…
Character:
Cause:
Effect:
Effect:
Effect:
Effect:
Effect:
Composing:
Group Activity
• Each person has a card with cause
and effect.
• You will read the story “Ask Me a
Question from Comprehension Plus E.”
• You will use the story to find the
response(s) to your section.
Use the
story to
answer the
questions.
1.
What does the narrator discover by the end of the story?
2.
Why might the author have mentioned at the start that Rachel is
a computer whiz?
Complete the chart with causes and effects from the story.
3.
Causes
Effects
Riva tries to come up
with a harder question.
4.
Using the computer answers
questions about Riva’s
shirt and her family’s birthday.
5. The computer answers questions about Riva’s shirt and her family’s
birthdays. What is the effect?0
6.Rachel is employed by local businesses because
7. Riva’s fingers freeze above the keyboard because ________