Literature Circle 1: pages 1-40

Tuesday, Sept 1

 

1. Distribute Roles

2. Complete today's job in a Word doc

3. Work with Mrs. Clark Evans to create your page

4. When all group members are ready, share and discuss your ideas for about 20 minutes. Remember: "More heads are better than one" and "The teacher doesn't have all of the answers." What seems important to YOU? to your GROUP?

 

You are all responsible for: sharing, discovering, and learning something new today during your group discussion.

 

* By the end of class today, your group needs a unique and mutually agreed upon group name :)

 

Literature Circle 2: pages 41-69

Wednesday, Sept 2

 

1. Group discussion-share, discover, and learn

2. Whole class discussion

-What important ideas or aspects has your group noted so far?

-What specifically do we note about the writing style and the effect these techniques create for the reader?

Day 2 Notes

What we know so far and understand

 

Characters

§         Flashbacks about the woman

o        She just wanted to give up

o        She is fearful

§         The Man

o        The boy kept him going

§         “The boy was all that stood between him and death”(29)

o        He protects him from the “bad guys”

o        The man has survival skills

o        Has a positive attitude that the woman doesn’t have

o        He has a goal that also keeps him going  

o        ‘everyman for himself’

§         The boy has never really known life before all of this happened

§         The man starts to show emotion during the parts about the flashbacks

o        Sometimes he doesn’t show emotion because he doesn’t want to freak the boy out

Companionship

§         The boy is curious

§         He doesn’t know any other boy

§         He asks his father questions about his life

      Writing style

§         Vague and reflects the situation

§         The use of “okay” and “south”

_________________________________________________________________________________________

 

Whole Class Discussion

Thursday, Sept 3

-What specifically do we note about the writing style and the effect these techniques create for the reader?

Elements of Style: vocabulary, punctuation, grammar choice, descriptive details, dialogue vs. description, POV, any other literary technique that you have ever studied.

9/11/09 class notes

- liked the food bunker part

- suprising

- gave them hope

- what would your first impressions be on seeing the people in the basement?

       - tried to help them

       - get scared and run

       - depends on if you have the same number of bullets as the man and boy

- the bad guys are catching poeple to eat

- Is it an instinct to want to help?

      - survival of the human race

- scary for the future of humanity if the bad guys are the ones to survive

- Cannabalism

      - not human

      - doesn't distinguish us from animals

      - losing dignity, but when you're really desperate, you don't care about dignity

- the man wants his son to have a normal childhood

- Would you have stayed in the food bunker despite the dangers?

     - stay because you're scared

     - if you solved the problem of it being discovered easily then there would be no reason to leave

     - fear of getting discovered is greater than the fear of running out of food