Honors - Due next class: Reader's Response to a short story by Ray Bradbury
Choose "The Pedestrian" in the textbook or "The Veldt," provided in class.
Response must address characterization, conflict, and theme.
Class objectives:
Today in class, you wrote responses to indicate your level agreement with six statements that anticipate themes in Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451.
Small group practice: In small groups, you practiced developing claims and justifying claims with reasons and examples, and preparing responses to counterclaims.
Class practice: 4 corner debate
We heard Luz, Destiny, Johari, and Quentin present their claims for each corner (strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree) and justify their claims for statement #5:
"The future is bound to be better than the present."
Luz presented first, attempting to win over people in the audience to her position, as did each subsequent spokesperson. Then we heard from those who chose and switched sides about their decisions.
Defining characterization
In the back vocabulary section of your Writer's Notebook, you created a new entry for CHARACTERIZATION. Small groups discussed and developed working definitions for CHARACTERIZATION, addressing both writer's craft and reader's interpretation.
* See pp. 188 and R103 in the textbook.
Choose "The Pedestrian" in the textbook or "The Veldt," provided in class.
Response must address characterization, conflict, and theme.
Class objectives:
- Develop claims and counterclaims
- Justify claims with reasons and examples
- Define characterization and describe the way authors characterize the characters and objects in a work of literature
Today in class, you wrote responses to indicate your level agreement with six statements that anticipate themes in Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451.
Small group practice: In small groups, you practiced developing claims and justifying claims with reasons and examples, and preparing responses to counterclaims.
Class practice: 4 corner debate
We heard Luz, Destiny, Johari, and Quentin present their claims for each corner (strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree) and justify their claims for statement #5:
"The future is bound to be better than the present."
Luz presented first, attempting to win over people in the audience to her position, as did each subsequent spokesperson. Then we heard from those who chose and switched sides about their decisions.
Defining characterization
In the back vocabulary section of your Writer's Notebook, you created a new entry for CHARACTERIZATION. Small groups discussed and developed working definitions for CHARACTERIZATION, addressing both writer's craft and reader's interpretation.
* See pp. 188 and R103 in the textbook.
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