The Last Dog – Setting and Plot

In this futuristic story, Brock’s society lives inside a dome and believes that Earth is too
poisoned to support life. One day, Brock goes outside the dome and finds a puppy. Scientists want to experiment on her, so he decides to leave the dome permanently. Once outside, he realizes that Earth is habitable. He and his puppy start a new life.

The Power Point that we’ve been working on in class for the last 4 weeks is updated below (The Last Dog – Class Lessons). Review it tonight with the story and your Setting and Plot Sequence graphic organizers to make sure that you have everything before submitting them in Google Classrooms tonight before 12am.

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The Last Dog – Story

The Last Dog – Class Lessons

We are working with 3 worksheets during this story: Setting, Plot Sequence, and Vocabulary List.

Literary Terms

• ›Setting – time and place of the action
• ››Plot Sequence – the order of events.
• Flashback – a scene from an earlier time
• ›Science fiction – combines real scientific information with imagination to create an altered universe.

Setting Graphic Organizer

spider_map with text fields

Plot Sequence Graphic Organizer

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http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/timeline_2/

Vocabulary Worksheet

The Last Dog – Vocabulary List

Analogies

Following Synonyms and Antonyms from Monday, today we will be working on Analogies.

An analogy is a comparison between two things or word pairs where each pair has a similar relationship. The words within a pair may be antonyms, for example, or show a cause-and-effect relationship. It is typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.

Example: “One day as I watched my class beginning to get ready for class work, I thought that they were like : computers booting up in the computer room, at different speeds, with different CPU’s.”

Analogies are useful when communicating a ‘fuzzy’ or blurry topic which a reader couldn’t otherwise understand- as in an abstract term or concept such as sharing.

Here is a link that we will be working on today in class:

http://www.mhhe.com/cgi-bin/netquiz_get.pl?qfooter=/usr/web/home/mhhe/socscience/english/spears/quiz/analogy1fq.htm&test=/usr/web/home/mhhe/socscience/english/spears/quiz/analogy1q.txt&answers=/usr/web/home/mhhe/socscience/english/spears/quiz/analogy1a.txt&email=1

Analogy Exercise 1
For each item write the word that completes the analogy (that has the same relationship as the pair on the left).
Answers

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1. arrival : departure : : ________ : death

Your response:

birth

Correct!

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2. elbow : arm : : knee : _________

Your response:

leg

Correct!

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3. car : road : : train : ________

Your response:

track

Correct!

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4. baiting hook : fishing : : _______ : hunting

Your response:

loading gun

Correct!

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5. violence : activity : : melancholy : ________

Your response:

mood

Correct!

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6. man : trousers : : woman : ____________

Your response:

skirt

Correct!

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7. university : institution : : mayor : _______

Your response:

official

Correct!

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8. grass : soil : : seaweed : ___________

Your response:

water

Correct!

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9. truthfulness : court : : cleanliness : _________

Your response:

bath

Correct!

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10. egg : fish : : ________ : plant

Your response:

seed

Correct!

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11. lion : animal : : flower : ___________

Your response:

plant

Correct!

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12. wave : crest : : _________ : peak

Your response:

mountain

Correct!

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13. falling : gravitation : : collapse : __________

Your response:

pressure

Correct!

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14. professor : ___________ : : musician : entertainment

Your response:

instruction

Correct!

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15. grains : sand : : drops : __________

Your response:

rain

Correct!

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16. wave : tide : : moment : ________

Your response:

time

Correct!

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17. wife : woman : : _______ : man

Your response:

husband

Correct!

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18. book : _______ : : comb : tooth

Your response:

page

Correct!

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19. boy : child : : man : ________

Your response:

adult

Correct!

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20. flower : weed : : _______ : buzzard

Your response:

swan

Correct!

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Your Score:

Correctly answered 20 out of 20 total questions or 100.0% correct.

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Classwork:

1. You will be handed out a worksheet about Analogies. Identify the relationship between the first pair of words. Select words that create a similar relationship for the second pair.

07_slf_analogies – student

1. Then you will construct your own analogies at the bottom of the worksheet. You should write 3 analogies.

Examples that you can use:

• I feel like….
• My life is like…
• Life is like…
• School is like….
• Doing (something) is like…
• Not doing (something) is like…
• Etc…