Decision Making 101Liberty Middle School

2014-2015

Purpose:

• Discover how our decisions impact ourselves and others around us.

• Observe how understanding myself and others helps me make more balanced decisions.

Learning Targets

• I can use text evidence to defend an argument using facts.• I analyze cause and effect in informational and fictional text.• I can analyze conflict, theme, symbolism and irony in a story.• I can identify the protagonist and antagonist in a story.• I can analyze the plot in a story, and determine sequence of

events.• I can write a T.E.X.T paragraph.• I can use context clues to determine denotation and

connotation of a word.• I can determine the main idea in a text.

Positives and Negatives To Decisions

Break-Out Sessions

• Positives and Negatives: Media• School Lunch Pandemonium• Literary Prognosis (mini-lessons)• Conflict, Theme, Symbolism, Irony, antagonist, protagonist

• Reading Skills• Context clues• Cause and effect

Gabby Douglass

Katie Davis

Miley Cyrus

Russell Wilson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOC0UpQawn8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9o2n09sSHc

“We Are Hungry”

“We Are Hungry”

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IB7NDUSBOo

Michelle Obama Defends School Lunches

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMNu4x3zKf4

Conflict

Conflict- the ________ in the story.

What are the two major branches?

What are the four minor branches?

Summarizing

Somebody want but so

Plot

• __________ - series of events in a story

- Sequencing of events -

Saved by the Bell

Saved by the BellClimax

Rising Action

ResolutionExposition

Falling Action

• Plot –• Exposition – • Rising Action – • Climax – • Falling Action –• Resolution -

Exposition Rising Action Climax Falling Action

Resolution

Exposition Rising Action Climax Falling Action

Resolution

Symbolism

• Symbolism- when an object that is tangible is used to represent and idea that cannot be touched (idea)

Incredibles

Mr. Incredible

Elastic Girl

Dash Violet Jack Jack Syndrome

Theme

• _____________: the author’s message to the reader (lesson)

• Saved by the Bell –

• Incredibles -

Protagonist

• _______________: the hero of the story

Antagonist

• Antagonist- the villain or bad guy of the story

Irony

• Irony – the ____________between reality and what you expected to happen• 1) _____________: the difference between what is

expected to happen and what happens• 2) _____________: the irony between what is said and what

is meant. (Sarcasm)• 3) _____________: when an audience knows something the

characters do not (Batman)

Irony Video

• http://www.teachertube.com/video/irony-examples-247074

Irony

• Irony – the difference between reality and what you expected to happen– 1) Situational Irony: the difference between what

is expected to happen and what happens– 2) Verbal Irony: the irony between what is said and

what is meant. (Sarcasm)– 3) Dramatic Irony: when an audience knows

something the characters do not (Batman)

“Michelle Obama Faces Off With GOP on School Lunch Rules”

“The Smallest Dragonboy”Anne McCaffery

“Rikki—Tikki TaviRudyard Kipling

“After Twenty Years”O. Henry

What Color Are You?

Michelle Obama Keevan Rikki-Tikki Tavi

You:

How will knowing this help you make balanced decisions for yourself and others?

Jimmy or Bob

What type of learner are you?

You:

How will knowing this help impact your learning and thus impact your decisions?

Michelle Obama Keevan Rikki-Tikki Tavi Jimmy or Bob