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Contemporary Literature

Contemporary Literature. Week 11 October 31-November 4, 2011. Monday, October 31, 2011. Due Today:. Walk-IN: Sit in your group, pick up a white sheet of paper, and take out The World According to Garp . Learning Objective:

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Contemporary Literature

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  1. Contemporary Literature Week 11 October 31-November 4, 2011

  2. Monday, October 31, 2011 Due Today: Walk-IN: Sit in your group, pick up a white sheet of paper, and take out The World According to Garp. Learning Objective: • Students will use and be aware of the strategies that they use in order to maintain reading stamina and engagement. • Students will use their meta-cognitive reading strategies to plan for Book Club Discussion Agenda: • The World According to GarpReading and Prep Day Homework: Read and prepare for Book Club # 1 on Tuesday (Page 67)

  3. The World According To Garp: Reading and Preparation Day • While reading be conscious or aware of the strategies you use to improve your stamina and engagement while reading (these are most likely similar to strategies you use to stay involved in the moment in anything new you are learning). • Be aware of the things that distract you. • Keep in mind the creative ways in which you may want to represent you learning, analysis, and reaction to the novel for your Book Club Preparation. • Begin creating your preparation:

  4. The World According to GarpBook Club • Book Club Job Expectations • Creative Freedom for Jobs: collage approach to Book Club Jobs. • Students will need to collage or piece together 4 aspects of the previous six jobs. This may include one passage, a smaller detailed drawing, two level 3 questions, 3 vocabulary words, a character chart on one person, or a smaller synthesis chart. Your choice, just chose 4 of the above and have fun and be creative.

  5. Due Today: Book Club #1 Creative Job Tuesday, November 1, 2011 Walk-IN: Sit with your book club group and take out your book, book club jobs, and a new sheet of paper. Learning Objective: • You will increase enjoyment and understanding of a novel by discussion questions, passages, characters, vocabulary, artistic interpretations, and areas of synthesis. Agenda: • Book Club # 1 Homework: Read and prepare for Book Cub # 2 (Page 116)

  6. Book Club before discussion Set up header: Book Club #1 Name: Novel: Date: Collage of Jobs: Pages Read: Summary Paragraph • Write a summary paragraph about what happened in your book so far. Include information about the setting, characters, conflict, and any other important ideas or events. When finished, discuss your summaries with your group.

  7. Book Club Discussion Question Job Procedures Lead the group in a discussion about each question. Allow everyone in your group to participate before you say anything. Take notes on who said what during the discussion of each question. Once everyone has contributed, share your own ideas about the answer to the question. Repeat with each question Passage Job Procedures Direct your group to that passage in the book, and have them read along with you as you read the passage out loud. Allow everyone in your group to comment on your passage before you say anything about it, and take notes on who said what during discussion. After everyone has participated, share your written explanation with the group. Character Job Procedures Share your Introduction/Update about each character with your group. After sharing about all characters, lead your group in a discussion about relationships, conflicts, and predictions about each character. Allow all members of your group to participate before you offer your own ideas, and take notes on your chart about discussion. Art Job Procedures Present artwork to the group. Allow all members to make observations and ask questions before you say anything about the image, and take notes who said what during discussion. Share your ideas about your image after everyone has participated. Vocabulary Job Procedures Identifyword/phrase/term and direct group to where it appears in the text. Read the sentence/paragraph in which the word appears out loud with the group. Ask the group to share ideas about the word’s meaning and/or significance to the story, and take notes on who said what. After everyone has participated, share your definitions, explanations with the group. Repeat process with each word. Synthesis Job Procedures One example at a time, lead the group in a discussion of each example, how it relates to the question. Allow your group to suggest In-Class and Beyond-Class­ connections BEFORE you suggest any. Fill out your chart as you discuss with your group. For each question, discuss with your group what how all the examples work together to suggest a common answer to each question, the Emerging Message; this should be written in the form of a theme statement.

  8. Book Club After discussion • Reflection Paragraph: • In a detailed paragraph, explain how your overall experience in book club increased your enjoyment or understanding of the novel. Was your group successful? Were you successful? How did your creative selection of your jobs and others help you better enjoy or understand The World According To Garp?

  9. Due Today: Wed/Thurs November 2-3, 2011 Walk-IN: Pick up a white binder, sit in your groups, and turn to your synthesis writing. Learning Objective: • Students will reread and reflect on a variety of texts to locate examples in order to support conclusions or messages based on their synthesis of a variety of texts. • Students will use meta-cognitive reading strategies toimprove reading stamina and engagement in a new and challenging text. Agenda: • Synthesis Essay Work Time • The World According to GarpReading and Prep Time • Silent Reading Expectations • Book Club Preparation Homework: Read and prepare for Book Club # 2 (Page 116)

  10. Synthesis Essay Work Time • Search, mine, plan out your paragraphs by developing your ideas and examples. One way to plan this would be: • Paragraph # 1: • General Topic: Family • Titles of sources from Non-Fiction Articles and Stories in Class: Is There Hope for the American Marriage, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been • Textual Evidence: • 1. “a lasting covenant…can be a vehicle for the nurture and protection of each other, the one reliable shelter in an uncaring world—or it can be a matchless tool for the infliction of suffering on the people you supposedly love above all others, most of all your children” (Flanagan). • 2. “Connie’s mother kept picking at her until Connie wished her mother was dead and she herself was dead and it was all over” (Oates). • 3. “This place you are now—inside your daddy’s house—is nothing but a cardboard box I can knock down any time” (Oates) • Main Idea/Conclusion: When a family is focused on their own selfish feelings, instead of the emotional well being of each other, it will cause the family to be vulnerable to the cruelties of the world.

  11. Synthesis Essay Work Time • Search, mine, plan out your paragraphs by developing your ideas and examples. One way to organize this would be: • Paragraph # 2: • General Topic: • Titles of sources from Non-Fiction Articles/Stories in Class and Book Club Novel: • Textual Evidence: • 1. • 2. • 3. • Main Idea/Conclusion:

  12. Synthesis Essay Work Time • Search, mine, plan out your paragraphs by developing your ideas and examples. One way to organize this would be: • Paragraph # 3: • General Topic: • Titles of sources from Independent Research and Stories from Class and/or Book Club Book. • Textual Evidence: • 1. • 2. • 3. • Main Idea/Conclusion:

  13. Synthesis Essay Work Time • Search, mine, plan out your paragraphs by developing your ideas and examples. One way to organize this would be: • Paragraph # 4: • General Topic: • Titles of sources from Articles in Class or Independent Research and Stories from Class and/or Book Club Book and The World According to Garp. • Textual Evidence: • 1. • 2. • 3. • Main Idea/Conclusion:

  14. Synthesis Paragraph Rough Draft • According articles and stories studied in class, when a family is focused on their own selfish feelings, instead of the emotional well being of each other, it will cause the family to be vulnerable to the cruelties of the world. In the article from Time magazine it states that, “a lasting covenant…can be a vehicle for the nurture and protection of each other, the one reliable shelter in an uncaring world—or it can be a matchless tool for the infliction of suffering on the people you supposedly love above all others, most of all your children” (Flanagan). Many people feel that the purpose of a family is to make them more content with life than they already are; this is a fallacy. If a family is to be successful, a sense of obligation, self-sacrifice, and caring is necessary. In Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been Connie and her mother have a selfish and volatile relationship. Her mother, embarrassed by what she has become, takes her own anger out on her daughter; this causes Connie to hide her true self from her parents and escape into a world filled with dangers because “Connie’s mother kept picking at her until Connie wished her mother was dead and she herself was dead and it was all over” (Oates ). This family has become as Flanagan says “a matchless tool for the infliction of suffering, on the people [they] supposedly love above all others,” and it ends up costing Connie her life. When Connie, once again, avoids and escapes from her family obligations, she is left at home to become lost in her thoughts, a pop-culture safe-haven. When an older man, who has been following her, shows up at her house he is able to see the vulnerability in Connie. Literally she is alone because her family is at a barbecue, but she is also alone and hollow on the inside because of the lack of support and love from her family. Arnold Friend, a serial killer, notices this and emotional lybreaksher down in order to manipulate her. He says, “This place you are now—inside your daddy’s house—is nothing but a cardboard box I can knock down any time. You know that and always did know it” (Oates). Connie is defenseless, she is lost, without any strength to resist the dangers that await her where she is going, which is why she allows Arnold Friend to convince her to give up her family, her self, and her life and go with him to her death. If Connie and her family had been focused on the obligation to each other, the emotional wellbeing of each other, and the happiness of each other, instead of their own feelings and needs, then she would have been able to avoid the perils that lurk in the world’s harsh reality.

  15. The World According To Garp: Reading and Preparation Day • While reading be conscious or aware of the strategies you use to improve your stamina and engagement while reading (these are most likely similar to strategies you use to stay involved in the moment in anything new you are learning). • Be aware of the things that distract you. • Keep in mind the creative ways in which you may want to represent you learning, analysis, and reaction to the novel for your Book Club Preparation. • Begin creating your prepartion:

  16. The World According to GarpBook Club • Book Club Job Expectations • Creative Freedom for Jobs: collage approach to Book Club Jobs. • Students will need to collage or piece together 4 aspects of the previous six jobs. This may include one passage, a smaller detailed drawing, two level 3 questions, 3 vocabulary words, a character chart on one person, or a smaller synthesis chart. Your choice, just chose 4 of the above and have fun and be creative.

  17. Due Today: Book Club #2 Creative Job Friday, November 4, 2011 Walk-IN: Sit with your book club group and take out your book, book club jobs, and a new sheet of paper. Learning Objective: • You will increase enjoyment and understanding of a novel by discussion questions, passages, characters, vocabulary, artistic interpretations, and areas of synthesis. Agenda: • Book Club # 2 Homework: Read and prepare for Book Cub # 3 (Page )

  18. Book Club before discussion Set up header: Book Club #2 Name: Novel: Date: Collage of Jobs: Pages Read: Summary Paragraph • Write a summary paragraph about what happened in your book so far. Include information about the setting, characters, conflict, and any other important ideas or events. When finished, discuss your summaries with your group.

  19. Book Club Discussion Question Job Procedures Lead the group in a discussion about each question. Allow everyone in your group to participate before you say anything. Take notes on who said what during the discussion of each question. Once everyone has contributed, share your own ideas about the answer to the question. Repeat with each question Passage Job Procedures Direct your group to that passage in the book, and have them read along with you as you read the passage out loud. Allow everyone in your group to comment on your passage before you say anything about it, and take notes on who said what during discussion. After everyone has participated, share your written explanation with the group. Character Job Procedures Share your Introduction/Update about each character with your group. After sharing about all characters, lead your group in a discussion about relationships, conflicts, and predictions about each character. Allow all members of your group to participate before you offer your own ideas, and take notes on your chart about discussion. Art Job Procedures Present artwork to the group. Allow all members to make observations and ask questions before you say anything about the image, and take notes who said what during discussion. Share your ideas about your image after everyone has participated. Vocabulary Job Procedures Identifyword/phrase/term and direct group to where it appears in the text. Read the sentence/paragraph in which the word appears out loud with the group. Ask the group to share ideas about the word’s meaning and/or significance to the story, and take notes on who said what. After everyone has participated, share your definitions, explanations with the group. Repeat process with each word. Synthesis Job Procedures One example at a time, lead the group in a discussion of each example, how it relates to the question. Allow your group to suggest In-Class and Beyond-Class­ connections BEFORE you suggest any. Fill out your chart as you discuss with your group. For each question, discuss with your group what how all the examples work together to suggest a common answer to each question, the Emerging Message; this should be written in the form of a theme statement.

  20. Book Club After discussion • Reflection Paragraph: • In a detailed paragraph, explain how your overall experience in book club increased your enjoyment or understanding of the novel. Was your group successful? Were you successful? How did your creative selection of your jobs and others help you better enjoy or understand The World According To Garp?

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