Lob

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Lobs Girl

• Vocabulary
• (Record in Reading Locker)

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ATONE

• To make amends
• The daughter tried to atone for her behavior by
  giving her mother flowers.

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INQUIRE

• To question ask
• The man inquired about a job listing in the
  classified ads.

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MELANCHOLY

• Sad Gloomy
• Emma was melancholy when her vacation ended.

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DRAFTING

• Putting into words and writing down composing
• Last week we were drafting our animal stories.

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ASSURE

• To promise or tell positively
• The coach assured his team that with hard work
  they would win the championship.

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TRANSFUSION

• An injection of blood, usually to replace a loss
  due to bleeding.
• The woman received a blood transfusion at the
  hospital.

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CONCEAL

• To hide
• Jane was told to conceal her money in her purse.

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COMA

• A sleeplike state in which a person cannot sense
  or respond to light, sound or touch.
• The doctor could not bring Rick out of his coma.

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AGITATED

• Disturbed upset
• Mom became agitated with my mess.

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RIVET

• To fasten firmly.
• The childs attention was riveted to the
  television.

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Vocabulary Handout

• Using your vocabulary list, complete the
  Vocabulary Handout
• Once you have completed the sheet, turn it in to
  your class turn in box.
• When you are done, turn to a new page in your
  Reading Locker and title it Lobs Girl Literary
  Elements.
• Read/Work silently until we are ready to move on.

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Literary Elements in Lobs Girl

• Foreshadowing
• Flashback

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Consider whether something good or bad is about
to happen on the bus and why you think so.

• The bus ride from school began as it does every
  day. Kids were yelling and laughing, and their
  music was playing. Suddenly, a dark cloud passed
  in front of the sun. The noise continued but at
  a slightly lower pitch.

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Foreshadowing(Record in Reading Locker)

• Foreshadowing is the authors use of clues to
  hint at what might happen later in the story.
• Writers use foreshadowing to build their
  readers expectations and to create suspense.

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Look for shifts in verb tenses and locate clue
words such as I remember.

• My kitten wakes me up each morning by licking my
  face. I remember when I first got Merlin at the
  pet store. He looked so tiny, all curled up in
  the corner of his cage. I fell in love with him
  right then and there.

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Flashback(Record in Reading Locker)

• A flashback is a scene within a story that
  interrupts the sequence of events to relate
  events that occurred in the past.

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Your Turn!

• Create your own example of foreshadowing and
  flashback
• Each example should be one paragraph each