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1. Monday KEEP IN MIND • Read through page 144 by this Thursday! • Complete Sections 5-11 in your Study Guide! Plot Structure, Literary Devices & Theme Author’s Background & Style Historical Time Period • Setting • Written/Published • Objective: to obtain background knowledge for reading The Road • Nuclear energy, disasters, and nuclear winter • Author • Task: complete (Word Doc answers) the Scavenger Hunt by the end of the class Monday

2. Past, Present, Future Monday • Started Scavenger Hunt for The Road • Finish Scavenger Hunt for The Road • YouTube • Graded Discussion & Analysis • Pages 4 – 144 The Road • Group 1 Sections 1 – 11 Study Guide • Group 2 Discussion • Group 3 Written Analysis • Continue into next section with analysis

3. Video Resources Monday • Go to YouTube and search “The Day After - 1983 [TV, ABC] - Nuclear Attack.” Watch the video clip and answer the following questions: • Describe what you think is happening in the clip. • How realistic do you think this video clip is? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3XsOWPlIso (Does not work) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2H1E02iMHg (2:56)

4. Video Resources Monday • Go to YouTube and search “Duck and Cover: U.S. Civil Defense Film (1951).” Watch the clip and answer the following questions: • Describe the “duck and cover” technique. • How affective do you think “duck and cover” is? • How is a nuclear attack described in the clip? • What are you supposed to do when the nuclear alarm goes off? • What do you do when there is a flash without any warning? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsHUIxt1iMw (8:44)

5. Video Resources Monday • Go to a search engine and search for the following “Cormac McCarthy Oprah Interview.” Watch the interview and answer the following questions. • What awards has The Road received? • Who is The Road dedicated to? • Where did Cormac McCarthy get the idea to write The Road from? http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/Oprahs-Exclusive-Interview-with-Cormac-McCarthy-Video (5:50)

6. Audio Book On-line?! • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcc-hO2HsXY

7. Hook, Housekeeping, Homework Thursday • Turn in your Scavenger Hunt to the front desk • Silently read from your choice novel or from The Road Homework: • Read The Road (pages 144 – 240) and complete Study Guide (sections 12 – 19) by next Thursday • Group 3 Written Response due tomorrow!

8. Past, Present, Future Thursday • Review of first section (quotes & images) • Scavenger Hunt • Graded Discussion & Analysis • Pages 4 – 144 The Road • Group 1 Sections 1 – 11 Study Guide • Group 2 Discussion • Group 3 Written Analysis • Continue into next section with analysis

9. What is Modern Fiction?The Novel Thursday Oral Expression and Listening 1. Effective speaking in formal and informal settings requires appropriate use of methods and audience awareness 2. Effective collaborative groups accomplish goals Objective: You will be able to listen actively, pose thoughtful questions, and contribute findings & supporting information about The Road. Relevance: 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 novels reflect the characteristics and themes of modern, post-modern or contemporary , post-modern, and contemporary fiction? • What stylistic devices and plot elements are used in these works? • What social or historical events seem to have influenced these works?

10. Activities: Develop & ApplyWe Do – You Do Thursday Purpose: to practice our oral communication and listening skills and come to a collaborative understanding of the novel Tasks: Group 1 Study Guide - Inner Circle • Listen to & participate in discussion • Turn in completed study guide Sections 1 – 11 by end of period Group 2 Discussion – Inner Circle • Study Guide Questions (novel) • Emerging themes and symbols (hand out) • Plot Structure, Literary Devices • setting, characters, rising action, and conflicts • Author’s Background & Style (relate to Scavenger Hunt) • Historical Time Period • Setting (relate to Scavenger Hunt) • Written/Published Group 3 Written Analysis - Outer Circle • Listen and record notes • Write 300-500 response (see model of length) • Turn it in tomorrow (Friday) Outcome/DOL: collaborative understanding of the novel’s setting, characters, rising action, and conflicts

11. Activities: Develop & ApplyYou Do Thursday Reflect, Read, React • Group 1 – Finish & turn in your study guide, read • Group 2 – Fill our Group Discussion Self-Evaluation & turn in, read • Group 3 – Begin ideas for 300-500 word response, read

12. What is Modern Fiction?The Novel Thursday Oral Expression and Listening 1. Effective speaking in formal and informal settings requires appropriate use of methods and audience awareness 2. Effective collaborative groups accomplish goals Objective: You will be able to listen actively, pose thoughtful questions, and contribute findings & supporting information about The Road. Relevance: 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 novels reflect the characteristics and themes of modern, post-modern or contemporary , post-modern, and contemporary fiction? • What stylistic devices and plot elements are used in these works? • What social or historical events seem to have influenced these works? Homework: • Read The Road (pages 144 – 240) and complete Study Guide (sections 12 – 19) by next Thursday • Group 3 Written Response due tomorrow!

13. Hook, Housekeeping, Homework Friday • Group 3 Written Response due! • Silently read from your choice novel or from The Road Homework: • Read The Road (pages 144 – 240) and complete Study Guide (sections 12 – 19) by next Thursday

14. Past, Present, Future Friday • Scavenger Hunt turned in • Graded Discussion & Analysis • Pages 4 – 144 The Road • Group 1 Sections 1 – 11 Study Guide • Group 2 Discussion • Group 3 Written Analysis • Continue into next section with analysis • Read The Road (pages 144 – 240) and complete Study Guide (sections 12 – 19) • Continue into next section with analysis

15. What is Modern Fiction?The Novel Thursday Standard 2 Reading for All Purposes Objective: You will be able to examine and draw conclusions about Cormac McCarthy's writing in The Road. Have out your Novel Guide (Graphic Organizer). Relevance: 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 novels reflect the characteristics and themes of modern, post-modern or contemporary , post-modern, and contemporary fiction? • What stylistic devices and plot elements are used in these works? • What social or historical events seem to have influenced these works? Homework: • Read The Road (pages 144 – 240) and complete Study Guide (sections 12 – 19) by next Thursday

16. Passage Re-writes Friday Read the following passages and re-write them using the rules of Standard Modern English (add punctuation, add words to correct sentence fragments, etc.) • Pages 52- 53 “The clocks… I’m not.” • Pages 112 – 113 “They crawled… Shh.”

17. Original & Re-write The clocks stopped at 1:17. A long shear of light and then a series of low concussions. He got up and went to the window. What was it? she said. He didn’t answer. He went into the bathroom and threw the lightswitch but the power was already gone. A dull rose glow in the windowglass. He dropped to one knee and raised the lever to stop the tub and then turned on both taps as far as they would go. She was standing in the doorway in her nightwear, clutching the jamb, cradling her belly in one hand. What is it? she said. What is happening? I don’t know. Why are you taking a bath? I’m not. The clocks stopped at 1:17. There was a long shear of light and then a series of low concussions. He got up and went to the window. “What was it?” she said. He didn’t answer. He went into the bathroom and threw the light switch, but the power was already gone. A dull rose glow appeared in the window glass. He dropped to one knee and raised the lever to stop the tub and then turned on both taps as far as they would go. She was standing in the doorway in her nightwear, clutching the jamb, cradling her belly in one hand. “What is it?” she said. “What is happening?” “I don’t know.” “Why are you taking a bath?” “I’m not.”

18. Original & Re-write They crawled slowly through the leaves toward what looked like lower ground. He lay listening, holding the boy. He could hear them in the road talking. Voice of a woman. Then he heard them in the dry leaves. He took the boy’s hand and pushed the revolver in it. Take it, he whispered. Take it. The boy was terrified. He put his arm around him and held him. His body so thin. Dont be afraid, he said. If they find you you are going to have to do it. Do you understand? Shh. No crying. Do you hear me? You know who to do it. You put it in your mouth and point it up. Do it quick and hard. Do you understand? Stop crying. Do you understand? I think so. No. Do you understand? Yes. Say yes I do Papa. Yes I do Papa.

19. What rules of Standard Modern English does McCarthy break? While McCarthy breaks the rules of formal writing, it is not at all chaotic or disorganized. • a very consistent style; its own consistent set of rules • intentional • intentionality is the difference between good writing and bad writing • choosing to use sentence fragments must be a deliberate choice, requiring knowledge of the formal rules of grammar, and a clear purpose for violating them

20. Why would he write “this” way? What way? • minimalist • straight forward descriptions of what is happening • very little punctuation, etc. • focuses on what is literally happening instead of how it's written • fragments show the startling fact of some event. Some moment. Some idea. Simplicity. • Post- modernism: almost like modernism • Elements of chaos, futility, pessimism, instability, loss of faith, collapse of morality, and lost sense of self -- with a futuristic twist. Note that the story does not contain ALL of these modern elements. • Reflects stripped down nature of a post apocalyptic world where everyone left is an animal. • No names to show this. Fragments to show this. No grammar rules to show this because there are none. There is no literature. No Law. No anything that falls within the realms of dictating a society. Because there is none. • McCarthy's novel is dealing with notions of nihilism, i.e the complete annihilation of society. • Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900, German philosopher, challenged the foundations of Christianity & traditional morality) defines nihilism as ‘the radical repudiation of value, meaning and desirability.' • the degeneration of his language alludes to the degeneration of society. • language becomes obsolete in the novel, people forget colors, names of birds etc. • Not everything needs to be written like a term paper or an article in the New York Times (Agree/Disagree? Why?) • Unconventional, but it is far from "unreadable” (Agree/Disagree? Why?)

21. Some say… • omits conventions (commas, quotations, and sometimes question marks) because they intrude on the poetry and prose.   • a poet novelist (like e.e. cummings) • wants to expose the words in their bare beauty.

22. Why, in this novel, do some questions end with question marks while other questions end with periods?Is there any logic involved? Why do they have to do that? I dont know. Are they going to eat them? I dont know. They’re going to eat them, arent they? Yes. And we couldnt help them because then they’d eat us too. Yes. And that’s why we couldnt help them. Yes. Okay.

23. Use of Polysyndeton • the use of a number of conjunctions in close succession; the repetition of conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effect.   • prefaces a lot of his would-be questions with “and” or “but,” turning them from questions into statements • Usually “would-be questions” are at the end of a back-and-forth discussion • used usually by the boy for clarification

24. Socratic Method Even if we were starving? We’re starving now. You said we werent. I said we werent dying. I didnt say we werent starving. But we wouldnt. No. We wouldnt. No matter what. No. No matter what. Because we’re the good guys. Yes. • boy begins questioning, then catches on & turns questions into statements • father still answers them as if they were questions • Again, boy asks a line of questioning that begins with questions and ends with statements • father continues to answer them as if they were questions.   • shows boy wants to validate himself in front of his father.   • boy shows father that he can arrive at his own conclusions in the form of statements. • qffirming what he already knows (that they wouldn’t resort to cannibalism; that they’re the good guys) • and making sure his father continues to believe them (possibly out of fear). • only have each other to talk • Socratic method of dialogue: the boy asks; father answers.  The boy arrives at a conclusion: the father answers.  The boy is the student; the father a teacher.  

25. Novel Guide Objective: you will be able to examine and draw conclusions about Cormac McCarthy's writing in The Road. What have you learned and/or what conclusions have you made about McCarthy’s style? What are you noticing about the style of your choice novel?

26. What is Modern Fiction?The Novel Friday Standard 2 Reading for All Purposes Objective: You will be able to examine and draw conclusions about Cormac McCarthy's writing in The Road. Have out your Novel Guide (Graphic Organizer). Relevance: 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 novels reflect the characteristics and themes of modern, post-modern or contemporary , post-modern, and contemporary fiction? • What stylistic devices and plot elements are used in these works? • What social or historical events seem to have influenced these works? Homework: • Read The Road (pages 144 – 240) and complete Study Guide (sections 12 – 19) by next Thursday