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In class we applied our learning of story elements to the short story Birthday Barbecue and an excerpt from Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.
Story elements: Title, author, genre, characters (who?), setting (when or where?), theme/main idea, plot, problem, and solution.
Vocabulary: Personal narrative, mysteriously, shot (needle), plump, puzzled, grant, omen, lopsided, twinkling, mischief, grin, thread, tacks, parasols, and courage.