19 Feb: Tale of the Falcon

1. Journal: “Box of Chocolates” If life is like a box of chocolates, what parts of your life are the chocolate covered…
   1.Caramels
   2.Coconut
   3.Strawberry filling
   4.Chocolate filling
   5.Other
   Explain your answers.
2. Songs with Metaphor, Graphic Organizer. Students filled out the graphic organizer below for 2 songs (frong and back).
3. Metaphor Graffiti - assigned. Due February 25. Quiz Grade
4. Chevrefoil - we went over the answers to packet pages 8 & 9.
5. "The Tale of the Falcon" (packet page 10). Activities and notes include:
6. Giovanni Boccaccio (p813)
   •Using your book, read about the author, Giovanni Boccaccio. Then create questions that begin…
   1.Who
   2.What
   3.When
   4.Where
   5.Why
   6.How
   •Write these questions on the back of one of your pages.
   •Answer the questions
7. Packet notes:
   •Frame story: a story that binds (holds together) several/many other stories.
   –A “bigger” story is created. It is a “frame.”
   –This bigger story is used to “house” other stories.
   •Decameron’s frame:
   –Setting: Italy during the Black Plague
   –Frame: 10 people go to the country to get away from the plague (This is the “bigger story”)
   –When they are in the country, they tell 10 stories a day for 10 days.
   –How many stories are in the Decameron?
   •Situational irony – What actually happens in a story is the opposite of what is expected
8. "The Tale of the Falcon" - we began reading (page 815) and read through "in your debt forever" on page 819.
9. HOMEWORK:
   •Finish “The Tale of the Falcon” page 819 “When he heard what…”
   •Answer questions page 820:
   •First Thoughts, Identifying Facts 1-3, Interpreting Meanings 1-3