Blue Birds
Who is Alise?
The author of this book
Who is/was C.S. Lewis?
The two types of figurative language we focused on while reading Blue Birds.
What were simile and metaphor?
What is a context clue?
A clue that readers use to determine the meaning of an unknown word.
Name one thing we did for homework on August 30, 2021
Show me your homework sheet
Identify three supporting characters
Answers will vary...teacher determines correct answers
Where is London, Wood between the Worlds, Charn, or Narnia?
The house was as clean as a whistle.
What is a simile?
In the following passage what does the word "blub" mean?
"Digory kept his mouth very tight shut. He had been growing more and more uncomfortable. He hoped that, whatever happened, he wouldn't blub or do anything ridiculous."
Does the word mean
a. a jumble of noises
b. cry, sob
c. simple, weak-minded
Blub means to cry or sob
Words that make sounds.
What is an onomatopoeia?
Main conflict
What is the tension between the colonists and the Native Americans?
Identify two protagonists
Who are Digory, Polly, Aslan, ....?
Her tears were a river flowing down her cheeks.
What is a metaphor?
In the following passage what does the word "curvetted" mean?
"He (Strawberry) gave a great sweep with them and leaped into the air. Twenty feet above Aslan and Digory he snorted, neighed, and curvetted."
Curvetted means to prance or frolick
Without looking in your binder....identify the four sections of your notebook.
What are Homework Sheets, Current Book, Handouts, and Previous Books?
Genre of this book
What is historical fiction?
Genre of this book
What is fantasy?
The golden yellow sunlight filtered down through the pale new leaves on the oak trees, coming to rest on the girl's toes.
What is imagery?
Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word "ostentatious".
"You have insisted on my entertaining you to an exceedingly expensive, not to say ostentatious, lunch....
Ostentatious means unnecessarily fancy or showy
Using the handout section of your binder...
Definition-to use prior knowledge, what you already know.
What is a schema? (On context clue handout)