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”

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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.