Per 6 Short Stories

Over the next few weeks, we will be reading three short stories.  We will work on our annotating skills, crafting reading responses that demonstrate our understanding of the text, discussion skills, and understanding of theme.  Below, you will find readings and handouts.

• In what ways do our experiences shape our identities?
• To whom do we have responsibility: ourselves; our family; our community; our society; or humanity?
• How do we remain authentic to ourselves while managing the expectations of others?

What you should be able to do as a result of this unit:

• Demonstrate an exceptional ability to annotate by utilizing all types of margin notes
• Articulate an understanding of the text as a whole, using examples from the text to support your understanding
• Understand “theme” and identify a theme in a piece of literature
• Discuss and support ideas about a character’s change
• Identify literary elements, such as figurative metaphor, simile, and allusion,  and discuss an author’s purpose in using literary elements

Final Assignment

• Literary analysis essay about one of the short stories

Texts
“The Dungeon Master” by Sam Lipsyte
“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates

Mon 9/17
*Who Are You? Essays Due

Overview of unit and essential questions

Annotation expectations

During the course of the story, the narrator undergoes a transformation.  What evidence best supports the notion that the character changes?  What is the nature of that change, and what are the key catalysts for this change?

Reading and annotating “The Dungeon Master” to the break in page 7

• What is the narrator like in the beginning?
• Find and analyze three quotes to support
• What is the Dungeon Master like in the beginning?
• Find and anlayze three quotes to support

HW:  finish reading and annotating “The Dungeon Master.”  Use the questions below to help guide your thinking

• How does the narrator and Dungeon Master develop? Who are they in the middle?  Who are they at the end?
• Where are there moments of change?
• What are the catalysts for change?

Tues 9/18
Drop

Wed 9/19
No School

Thurs 9/20
QW: Write about a time you felt like an outsider. Describe the situation, the other people, setting, and your emotional state at the time.

Overview of the response

• Statement about change
• 3 pieces of evidence
• Analyzing evidence

Transformation of a major character

• During the course of the story, the narrator undergoes a transformation.  What evidence best supports the notion that the character changes?  What is the nature of that change, and what are the key catalysts for this change?

HW:  Reading the Pied Piper and answering questions on google classroom

Overview of Metaphor, Simile, and Allusion

Summarizing Fairy Tales

• 3 Little Pigs
• Little Red Riding Hood
• Pied Piper

What is a theme in the story?  Analyze how Oates uses literary elements such as metaphor, imagery, motif, and/or symbolism to effectively develop that theme?

• Identifying patterns of similes
  • What do the similes lead you to understand about Arnold?
• Discussing the relationships found with the similes used

HW:  Reading and annotating to the bottom of page 7 and bring Q1 books

Fri 9/21
What is a theme in the story?  Analyze how Oates uses literary elements such as metaphor, imagery, motif, and/or symbolism to effectively develop that theme?

• Identifying patterns of similes
  • What do the similes lead you to understand about Arnold?
• Discussing the relationships found with the similes used

HW:  finish reading and annotating “Where are you going…”

Fri 10/6
In class work day
Evidence for Body 3
Outlining the Intro and conclusion

Mon 10/9
In class work day
Evidence for Body 3
Outlining the Intro and conclusion

Tues 10/10
Drafting day

Bring in a printed copy your draft for tomorrow’s class *Draft must have thesis and three body paragraphs

Wed 10/11
Peer review-What does effective feedback look like?

HW:  keep drafting!  Essay due at 2.05 tomorrow.

Thurs 10/12
Drop

Fri 10/13
Essay Due