Hook, Housekeeping & Homework Monday

1. Hook, Housekeeping & Homework Monday While you wait, read from your modern fiction choice novel! Truth is stranger than fiction: 2 Truths, 1 Lie Which one is the lie about Seanya Lindley? • I didn’t know how to ride a bike until I was 16. • I once found $1000 in a trash can. • I speak 4 languages. Did you turn in your Novel Search Graphic Organizer? Do you have your Modern Fiction Choice Novel? Reminder: for everyday an assignment is late it is docked 10%, stopping at 5 days (after that, it is not accepted).

2. Past, Present, Future Monday • Modern Choice Novel • William Faulkner background • As I Lay Dying excerpt • Fishbowl Discussion

3. What is Modern Fiction? Short StoriesMonday Standard 2 Reading For All Purposes • Objective: you will be able to read and respond to a work of modern fiction • To evaluate how an author’s use of literary techniques (narrative perspective) impact meaning and create theme. Relevance: By interpreting text complex texts, providing evidence, and communicating ideas, we are practicing the skills need in any workplace or postsecondary setting. By reading modern fiction, we examine aspects of ourselves and others and how social and historical events impact the way in which we communicate. Essential Question: What is modern fiction? • How do these short stories reflect the characteristics and themes of modern fiction? • What social or historical events seem to have influenced these works? Did you turn in your Novel Search Graphic Organizer? Do you have your Modern Fiction Choice Novel? If you have not done either of these two, how can I help you be more successful? Reminder: for everyday an assignment is late it is docked 10%, stopping at 5 day.

4. Instruction: Obtain Thursday Historical and Literary Context When Written: 1930 Where Written: Faulkner famously wrote As I Lay Dying in a six-week period of time while working at a local power-plant in Mississippi. When Published: 1930 Literary Period: • representative work of literary modernism, a movement of the early 20th century • havoc of World War I caused an impulse in a society demoralized by war • challenged society’s very foundations • uprooted tradition • challenged the traditional values of literature –straightforward plot, omniscient narration, linear sense of time, among others • Faulknerdemonstrates modernism’s appreciation of all kinds of linguistic and formal experimentation, and perpetuation of new and innovative stylistic techniques Related Literary Works: • Faulkner also known as a writer who was a part of the Southern Renaissance • those who wrote in the American South in the 1920s and 1930s • focusedmuch of their subject matter on the South Source: http://www.litcharts.com/lit/as-i-lay-dyingSparkNotes

5. Instruction: Obtain Monday Education Portal: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying: Summary and Analysis • http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/faulkners-as-i-lay-dying-summary-and-analysis.html#lesson • (play from 5:50 to end to finish from Friday) As I Lay Dying – Official Trailer #1 (2013 HD) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO68Kd2yQsE

6. Activities: Develop & ApplyI Do – You Do Monday Tasks: • Read and annotate the excerpt from As I Lay Dying • Create a chart like the one below to guide your understanding:

7. Activities: Develop & ApplyYou Do Monday Tasks: • Listen to annotate the excerpt from As I Lay Dying • Use the prompts below to guide your annotations: Prompt 1: Each one of the narrators in As I Lay Dying takes note of Cash building his mother’s coffin. What is the effect of this consistent thread? Consider how the descriptive and sensory details of Cash building the box affect your understanding of the characters as well as the overall meaning of what each character is conveying. Use specific quotes from the text to support your analysis. Prompt 3: How does the repetition of words and phrases in As I Lay Dying affect the mood and meaning of the novel? Use specific lines from As I Lay Dying to support your ideas. Prompt 2: What are the pros and cons of telling a story through multiple narrators? Using As I Lay Dying as an example, explain why the story benefits or does not benefit from the viewpoints of many characters. Cite examples from the text.

8. Activities: Develop & ApplyYou Do Monday Considering the video clips, PPT slides, AND the notes you’ve taken/received on Modernism over the past 5 weeks… • How does this excerpt reflect the time period in which it was written and/or the time period in which it takes place (story’s setting)? • What do you know about the author’s background that may have influenced the story? • What have you noticed or what do you know about the author’s writing style? What are the characteristics of this excerpt? How do these correspond with what we know about Modernist Writing?

9. What is Modern Fiction? Short StoriesMonday Standard 2 Reading For All Purposes • Objective: you will be able to read and respond to a work of modern fiction • To evaluate how an author’s use of literary techniques (narrative perspective) impact meaning and create theme. Relevance: By interpreting text complex texts, providing evidence, and communicating ideas, we are practicing the skills need in any workplace or postsecondary setting. By reading modern fiction, we examine aspects of ourselves and others and how social and historical events impact the way in which we communicate. Essential Question: What is modern fiction? • How do these short stories reflect the characteristics and themes of modern fiction? • What social or historical events seem to have influenced these works?

10. Hook, Housekeeping & Homework Tuesday While you wait, read from your modern fiction choice novel! Truth is stranger than fiction: 2 Truths, 1 Lie Which one is the lie about LeRoy Ortega? (Are you here? last chance for now!) • Lived in the same neighborhood for the past 12-13 years. • Found out that my best friend since 6th grade is actually my half-brother. • Never been out of the country. Reminder: for everyday an assignment is late it is docked 10%, stopping at 5 days (after that, it is not accepted).

11. What is Modern Fiction? Short StoriesTuesday Standard 1 Oral Communication & Listening Standard 2 Reading For All Purposes • Objective: you will be able to read and respond to a work of modern fiction • To evaluate how an author’s use of literary techniques (narrative perspective) impact meaning and create theme. Relevance: By interpreting text complex texts, providing evidence, and communicating ideas, we are practicing the skills need in any workplace or postsecondary setting. By reading modern fiction, we examine aspects of ourselves and others and how social and historical events impact the way in which we communicate. Essential Question: What is modern fiction? • How do these short stories reflect the characteristics and themes of modern fiction? • What social or historical events seem to have influenced these works?

12. Past, Present, Future Tuesday • As I Lay Dying excerpt • Faulkner background • Fishbowl Discussion • The Great Gatsby (modernist novel to contemporary film)

13. Effective Discussions… What criteria could be used to measure the effectiveness of a group? • Everyone contributes • Nothing to contribute, ask a question • Respect each other, no bashing • Stay on topic • Let others finish thought • No side tracks, side conversations • Academic vocabulary • Prepared – novel, notes, paper etc • Know what you’re talking about

14. Activities: Develop & ApplyWe Do – You Do Tuesday • Purpose: to come to a better understanding of the excerpt from As I Lay Dying as a modernist novel and practice our large group discussion skills • Tasks: • Form into a fishbowl discussion group – sit where you can see and hear your partner (typically across the bowl from him/her) • Make sure you have appropriate materials out (short story, writing utensil, other notes, Observation Form) • Observer – use the Observation Form to document how often your partner is on or off task with the discussion and record reflection notes • Speaker – participate in the conversation by posing and responding (with supporting evidence) to questions that analyze the components of the story (characters, setting, point of view, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, and theme) - REFER TO THE TEXT WHEN RESPONDING • Switch! • Turn in the completed Observation Form at the end of the discussions • Outcome: a better understanding of the story and of the expectations for large group discussions

15. Activity: Fishbowl DiscussionTuesday What do we talk about?!- Discussion Prompts • Each one of the narrators in As I Lay Dying takes note of Cash building his mother’s coffin. What is the effect of this consistent thread? Consider how the descriptive and sensory details of Cash building the box affect your understanding of the characters as well as the overall meaning of what each character is conveying. Use specific quotes from the text to support your analysis. • How does the repetition of words and phrases in As I Lay Dyingaffect the mood and meaning of the novel? Use specific linesfrom As I Lay Dying to support your ideas. • What are the pros and cons of telling a story through multiple narrators? Using As I Lay Dying as an example, explain why the story benefits or does not benefit from the viewpoints of many characters. Cite examples from the text. • How does this excerpt reflect the time period in which it was written and/or the time period in which it takes place (story’s setting)? • What do you know about the author’s background that may have influenced the story? • What have you noticed or what do you know about the author’s writing style? What are the characteristics of this excerpt? How do these correspond with what we know about Modernist Writing?

16. What is Modern Fiction? Short StoriesTuesday Standard 1 Oral Communication & Listening Standard 2 Reading For All Purposes Objective: you will be able • To describe characteristics of a modernist writing • To determine how an author’s work represents modern fiction • Develop clear and coherent story that imitates the characteristics of modern fiction Relevance: By interpreting text complex texts, providing evidence, and communicating ideas, we are practicing the skills need in any workplace or postsecondary setting. By reading modern fiction, we examine aspects of ourselves and others and how social and historical events impact the way in which we communicate. Essential Question: What is modern fiction? • How do these short stories reflect the characteristics and themes of modern fiction? • What social or historical events seem to have influenced these works? • How does my own writing mimic the characteristics of modern literature? Turn in your Observation Form!

17. Thursday/Friday • View the 2013 version of The Great Gatsby • Complete the Viewing Guide • Based on your basic understanding of of the novel and time period and your current understanding of popular movies (especially remakes like Romeo and Juliet), discuss how the new version might vary from its original

18. Extra, Extra… • Creative imitations coming soon

19. Instruction: Obtain We Do Purpose/Objective: To describe characteristics of a modernist writing and determine how an author’s work represents modern fiction Tasks: • What are the characteristics of this excerpt? (style and techniques) • If you are to imitate this type of writing, what should be the criteria by which it is judged? Outcome/DOL: • Understanding of the literary techniques and style used in As I Lay Dying in order to draft of an original piece for a peer to evaluate

20. Activities: Develop & ApplyWe Do – You Do Purpose: to develop a clear and coherent story that imitates the characteristics of As I Lay Dying Tasks: • What are some scenarios that would be good ideas for a multiple perspective description? • Wedding • Car accident • Holiday • Burglary Outcome: ideas for imitation and draft ideas

21. Activities: Develop & ApplyYou Do • Begin draft that meets criteria established by the class

22. What is Modern Fiction? Short Stories Standard 3 Writing and Composition Objective: you will be able • To describe characteristics of a modernist writing • To determine how an author’s work represents modern fiction • Develop clear and coherent story that imitates the characteristics of modern fiction Relevance: By interpreting text complex texts, providing evidence, and communicating ideas, we are practicing the skills need in any workplace or postsecondary setting. By reading modern fiction, we examine aspects of ourselves and others and how social and historical events impact the way in which we communicate. Essential Question: What is modern fiction? • How do these short stories reflect the characteristics and themes of modern fiction? • What social or historical events seem to have influenced these works? • How does my own writing mimic the characteristics of modern literature?