- Learn ways to incorporate concrete details and commentary into a literary analysis paragraph
- Know the difference between direct and indirect characterization
- Recognize and create examples of direct and indirect characterization
What we did:
- A3 and B3 - Those classes that did not finish the group poster activity with the story "There Will Come Soft Rains" finished during the first few minutes of class. We discussed how finding textual support to back up our inferences is like writing concrete details to support a topic sentence. We also connected the students' explanations of their textual support to commentary and how commentary will always explain or expound upon concrete details. Once we finished with that activity, we began the next lesson with reviewing the terminology having to do with characterization on the students' vocabulary sheets. We then took notes on indirect and direct characterization (see my website under 9/15 - 9/16 for the notes), and students experimented with writing their own examples. A3 and B3 then read "All Summer in a Day" in which students were looking for instances where direct and indirect characterization was used. They also responded to some questions about the story (see my website under 9/19 - 9/20 for the questions).
- A1 - this class, being ahead of the other two classes, read "The Cask of Amontillado," in order to review characterization concepts and to add setting and conflict to our analyses. Each student was assigned a specific "lens" through which to focus as we read (the characterization of Montressor or Fortunato, the story's setting, or the story's conflict). Students read and highlighted parts of the text that spoke to their specific lens. Next time, we will get together in groups and discuss how each element (characterization, setting, and conflict) adds to the horror of the story.
Homework:
- Read (at least) 30 minutes every day
- Article of the Week #2 (due Friday for A Day students and Monday for B Day students)