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Performing a Close Reading

Performing a Close Reading. 9.3.2013 Kingsley. Quick Check in. Answer as many as you can: 1) What are the rocket men looking for on Venus? What is happening constantly on Venus? 2) What does Father Peregrine want to build for the fire balloons?

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Performing a Close Reading

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  1. Performing a Close Reading 9.3.2013 Kingsley

  2. Quick Check in Answer as many as you can: 1) What are the rocket men looking for on Venus? What is happening constantly on Venus? 2) What does Father Peregrine want to build for the fire balloons? 3) What happens to the son’s father in “The Rocket Man”? What is the mother’s response? 4) What do the husband and wife do on the last night at the end of the world? 5) Who are some of the characters in exile in “The Exile”? 6) What year are the husband and wife from in the “The Fox and the Forest”? What year do they travel to? How are they discovered? 7) What was Leonard Mark’s power in “The Visitor”?

  3. Suggestions based on my observations • Some detail, needs more • Think CONTENT • Observations are the first step to original thought • Work towards thoughtful, intentional prose/ideas • Rushing vs. sustained focus on reading/writing • Include page numbers

  4. In Groups—Continuing to close read • Get into 5 groups—(6-7 people per group) • As a group, select a story to perform a close reading on (Section 1 of readings “The Veldt” through “The Man”. • Collect your main observations & discuss important places that you have annotated/marked in the text. (GROUP DISCUSSION) • Then, take the most fascinating/interesting observation in the story and craft a set of questions around it. • Prepare to present (Short intro/summary of the story, a quick run down of what your group observed/noted, and your questions for us)

  5. Exchange Exchange your recent homework (question set and response) with a partner. READER: mark places that stand out to you in your peer’s observations. Feel free to respond, give feedback, and mark what you think is particularly enlightening.

  6. Reviewing the process of close reading • Notice / Observations • What details did you mark or note? Why did you mark it? • What ideas, people, or plots seems significant? How so? Explain. • What imagery seems significant? Why? • What ideas or images are repeated? • Or what stands out? Why? • Take 15 minutes to answer these questions in terms of the second set of stories in thoughtful prose.

  7. Taking stock of observations What are the text’s overall themes? Ideas? Arguments? Problems? (How do we know this?)

  8. Forming questions • NOTICING/OBSERVING/MARKING: • I noticed the repetition of lightness/brightness • “electrical storm” monster in “The Long Rain” (83). • “blue blazing flashes”(84). • “Yellow light” of the sun dome in “The Long Rain”(95). • “yellow light grew very bright” • “great bright thing which dominated the long room”(95) • “Fiery Orbs” in “The Fire Balloons” (119) • “soft blue light”(119) • “But the fiery spheres only burned like images in a dark mirror. They seemed fixed, gaseous, miraculous, forever”(121).

  9. Forming Questions Where does blazing or fiery light appear in Bradbury’s stories in The Illustrated Man? How does he describe these bright events? What is the relationship of these bright lights to the theme of the future of man and technology that extends through the text?

  10. Answering How would I begin to approach answering this? What would I need to do?

  11. Homework • Part 1: Finish the last 6 stories (including Epilogue): “Concrete Mixer,” “Marionettes, Inc.,” “The City,” “Zero Hour,” “The Rocket,” and “Epilogue”. • Continue to notice & mark the text as you read. • Part 2: Surveying what’s out there…Where is there information on the book? What sources/resources are online?What do these sites notice? What is discussed? What isn’t? In other words, what is missing from these discussions? TYPED. • Head start on sources: • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man • http://thebestnotes.com/booknotes/Illustrated_Man_Bradbury/Illustrated_Man_Study_Guide01.html • Part 3: Read Baratunde’s article (link online on our course calendar) (Observe, mark, annotate)

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