February 24

1. February 24 • Please place your BOOK REVIEWS on your desk (and nothing else). • Presentations: Bring your book review to the front of the room. Then say something like “I read the book __________. I recommend it because __________. Thank you!” • Then place it in the homework box, along with your vocab work. • Our new book: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. • START SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE SECTION IN YOUR NOTEBOOK. • Prewriting Exercise • Check out books. Do you have any books to turn in or return to the library? • Reading time.

2. Friday, February 22 • You need your notebook open. On the top of a page, write: Slaughterhouse Five Background & Chapter One • Slaughterhouse Five Introduction • Background PPT • Listening to Chapter 1. • As you read, Write one sentence for each of these “sentence starters”: • “My first impression of this book….” • I noticed….” • “I think it’s cool…” • “It bothers me that…” • “I wonder…”

3. Slaughterhouse Five Pre-reading Writing • Imagine yourself sitting at the school lunchroom today. Write what is happening, in the first person voice. “I…” • Now imagine yourself sitting at your elementary school lunchroom, back when you were 9 years old. Write what is happening, in the first person voice “I…” • Now imagine yourself sitting at your kitchen table with your family 20 years from now when you are about 37 years old. Write what is happening, in the first person voice…”I…” • Now, imagine that you have been abducted by a UFO and are on another planet having lunch. Write what is happening, in the first person voice “I…” • Now, continue the elementary school story. 3 sentences • Now, continue the outer space story. 3 sentences • Now, continue the story about today’s lunchroom. 3 sentences • Now, continue the story about your future family. 3 sentences • Now, the outer-space story. • Now, the elementary story. • Now the future family. • Now today’s lunchroom. • Now end it somehow.

4. Tuesday, February 25 • You need your notebook open. On the top of a page, write: Slaughterhouse Five Background & Chapter One • Slaughterhouse Five Introduction • Background PPT • Listening to Chapter 1. • As you read, Write one sentence for each of these “sentence starters”: • “My first impression of this book….” • I noticed….” • “I think it’s cool…” • “It bothers me that…” • “I wonder…”

5. Block, Thursday, February 27 • Good Morning. We eat 3rd lunch. • Finish reading/listening to Chapter One of Slaughterhouse Five. • Work with a partner to answer questions about Chapter One. These need to go in YOUR notebook. You can work with a partner to talk through the answers, but each person needs to do the work in your own notebook.

6. Chapter One Questions Chapter One Slaughterhouse Five Write the answers in your notebook. For each, answer with your own words and cite a quotation that helps to answer or explain the question. 1. Why wasn’t Vonnegut able to write about his experiences in Dresden for so many years? 2. Explain Vonnegut’s reaction to the movie-maker’s comment about anti-war books, “Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?” 3. Vonnegut seems to imply that machines have a destructive effect on humans. Give at least one specific example from chapter one of this implication. Then, find a quote that relates to the idea of machinery to the massacre of war. 4. What point does Mary O’Hare make about war stories? What is Vonnegut’s reaction? 5. Vonnegut seems to see war as senseless, something humans should feel shame for being a part of. Find two things mentioned toward the end of Chapter 1 that support this statement of Vonnegut’s view of war. 6. After Vonnegut leaves the O’Hares, he begins to think about time. Find two references that he makes about time and summarize Vonnegut’s ideas here. 7. Choose a quote or passage from this chapter that speaks to or summarizes Vonnegut’s reason for writing the book about Dresden. Explain its meaning and why you chose it.

7. Please choose a pod & sit with these people • Collin, Matt, Toni, Noah, Brittany • Tony, Jack, Justin, Betty, Jordan • Sam, Lino, Taylor, Grant • Brock, Eileen, Zach, Annemarie, Connor • Jake, Ari, Riley, Max, Justin • Gavin, Nicholas, Nat, Victoria

8. Friday, February 28 • CHAPTER ONE REVIEW Partner Exercise: How many different tablioux (scenes) in Chapter One? In your notebook: Write down 3 sentences or questions about chapter one—your thoughts, a summary, a question you have—comments & questions that show your critical thinking of chapter one. • Discussion: Your comments, characters, memories—linear or jumbled?, comments on time • Literary devices (next slide) Homework:Reread VERY CAREFULLY pages 21 & 22, starting with “I looked”…. Read the information on Lot’s wife and Sodom & Gomorrah. Explain, on a ½ sheet of paper that you will hand in, the meaning of this sentence on page 22: “This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt.”

9. Slaughtehouse Five, literary devices • In your notebook—Make this list, leaving 2 or 3 lines between each. • Allusion • Tone • Mood • Irony (situational) • Irony (verbal) • Humor (dark) • Satire • Repetition • Motif • Point of view • 1st person • 3rd person limited • 3rd person omniscient • Symbol • Foreshadow • Imagery • Theme • Go through the list and explain to each other your idea of the literary device. • Questions?

10. A reference to something or someone that “everyone” should know. For instance, if you were trying to instill confidence in a friend and said, “Use the force,” that would be an allusion to Stars Wars. The verb form of allusion is to allude. ALLUSION