Lesson+2

=PREDICTING=

Lesson # 2 Part A:
1. Create a "new page" and title it with your first name [no last names], underscore, and a 2 for lesson # 2. 2. For EACH move tagline below, predict the plot line. On your page, type in the movie title (in italics) and a complete sentence predicting at least two main events. Do this for EACH movie.

**MOVIE TAGLINES** 1. //Scarface//: " He loved the American dream. With a vengeance." 2. //Trading Places//: "They’re not just getting rich. They’re getting even." 3. //Taxi Driver//: "On every street in every city, there’s a nobody who dreams of being a somebody." 4. //Sid and Nancy//: "Love kills." 5. //The Main Event//: "A glove story." 6. //High Noon//: "The story of a man who was too proud to run." 7. //American Gothic//: "Families that slay together stay together." 8. //Alien//: "In space no one can hear you scream."

Lesson # 2 Part B:
1. For EACH novel excerpt below, predict what happens next. On your page, type in the novel title (in italics) and a one-sentence prediction. Do this for EACH excerpt.

**NOVEL EXCERPTS** 1. //All the King's Men// by Robert Penn Warren " The thirty thousand pairs of eyes . . . stared down into the pit of light where men in red shorts and gold helmets hurled themselves against men in blue shorts and gold helmets and spilled and tumbled on the bright green turf like spilled dolls."

2. //Light in August// by William Faulkner " Their faces were not a foot apart: the one cold, dead white, fanatical, mad; the other parchment-colored, the lip lifted into the shape of a soundless and rigid snarl."

3. //Sons and Lovers// by D.H. Lawrence " Suddenly their eyes met, and she smiled to him -- a rare, intimate smile, beautiful with brightness and love. Then each looked out of the window."