September 23 - September 27

What you miss if you miss this week:

• We will analyze indirect characterization and use of figurative language.

• We will read "Abuela Invents the Zero" as well as some other stories related by theme.

• We will compare and contrast the stories we have read using what we have learned so far.

 "He came down out of the high, flat region in the evening by bus, with two small overnight bags full of maps, sun lotions and medicines."

"A Distant Episode" by Paul Bowles 

“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”  

J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew

Characterization Sentence Stems -

In the short story ____________________, _____________________ shows ___________________
                           Title                                    Character                                      character trait
when she ___________________________ .
                action

Readers can infer that __________________________ is ________________________  from 
                                  Character                                          trait
____________________________________. 
description/details

"The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she lived with, her only boy. He was sitting on the edge of his chair at the table, bent over the orange sports section of the Journal. 'Now look here, Bailey,' she said, 'see here, read this,' and she stood with one hand on her thin hip and the other rattling the newspaper at his bald head. 'Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people. Just you read it. I wouldn't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn't answer to my conscience if I did.'"    ~Flannery O'Connor "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

 

Objectives

• analyze how the central characters' qualities influence the theme of a fictional work and resolution of the central conflict.[8.6B]

• analyze literary works that share similar themes across cultures.[8.3A]

• make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding.[8.RCD]