For Wednesday

1. For Wednesday • Fill out your assigned sheet: (10 pts) • Half the class do Beloved • Half does To The Lighthouse • Make-up in-class essay by Friday • Get A Walk in The Woods by Monday • AP test? • Talk to me.

2. Paper 2 Instructions: Compare and contrast two of the Part 3 works you have studied in response to the question. • QUESTION: • Writers of fiction do not always relate events in the order in which they seem to occur in the worlds of their novels or short stories. Choosing two works by writers you have studied, show how variations of chronological order can be seen to serve the purposes of the stories.

3. A • B • C • D • E

4. Today • Small groups: Fill Prep sheet on The Guide • Then as a class we will do The Turning

5. Themes The Guide The conflict between traditionalism and individualistic values. Conflict between traditional India and modern India Quest for self-fulfillment/spiritual fulfillment Self-deception Transformation

6. Snippets the Guide • “Unless they are good I’ll never eat.”/ • I am no saint • He played the role expected of him • It is fated thus (why he became a guide) • An empty vessel makes much noise • Forget the walls and you will be happy • Dharma: social duty • Maya: role playing

7. Paper 2 question • A writer once said that the reader should be able to return to the first pages of a novel or short story and find the resonances of the entire work. With reference to at least two works you have studied, consider the importance of the beginning to the work as a whole.

8. Agenda • Return essays (3rdhr) • Review The Turning • Tip sheet • Exam Preps

9. By character or theme • Vic • Abbreviation • Damaged Goods • On her Knees • Long, Clear View • Reunio n • Commision • Fog • Defender • Frank/Max/ rae • The Turning • Sand Family • Boner McParlin • Jackie • Playing a role • Reinventing yourself • Identity

10. Themes The Turning • How the past affects the present • Letting go of the past ( • Family conflict/reconciliation • Time moves through us not us through it • Faith, finding our way

11. Symbols • Ocean opportunity, conflict, reconciliation, time • Swamp time, past, things are never over • Beach: spiritual awakening, first love • Fog: confusion • Missing finger: pain ( real) • Fire: burning the past, loss

12. Snippets The Turning • “The longer we drive the more the sky and the bush open up” • Perhaps time moves through us and not us through it.” I narrator in Aquifer • “Things are never over” Narrator in Aquifer • Life moves on, people say, but I doubt that. Moves in, more like it” I narrator from Aquifer • “Family. It’s not a word, it’s a sentence.” Vic

13. Narrative Techniques • Shifting Points of view • Inter-connected stories with re-occurring characters • Non-linear narrative • Dialogue • Shifts in time • Flashback • Flash forward (Big World) • foreshadowing • symbolism

14. Beloved Snippets • Ch. 1:”Ten minutes for seven letters.” • Ch 3: “Anything dead coming back to life hurts” • “The future was a matter of keeping the past at bay.” • Ch. 4: “Doomed Roses”.(“The closer they got to death the louder the scent”.) • Ch. 9: “The circle of iron choked it” • Ch. 10:” For one lost all lost” • Ch 11: “Red Heart, Red Heart” • Ch. 13: I am not a man • Ch. 15:She couldn’t stop laughing. “My hearts beating.” • Ch. 18: You got two legs not four • You protected yourself and loved small. • Your love is too thick.

15. Themes • The past’s effect on the present • Dehumnization • Motherhood • Memory • The importance of family and memory • The effects of slavery

16. Lighthouse Themes • Part 1: • Gender roles • impermanence • Part 2: Lack of unity • Chaos of war • Death • Destructive nature of time • Part 3: reconciliation, self-realizition • Art’ ability to transcend time

17. To want and not to have • We perished, each alone • Nothing was simply one thing • People can wear many shapes • What does it mean then, what does it all mean? • I have had my vision • Night, however, succeeds to night • It is a triumph • Instead there were little illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark • In the midst of chaos there was this shape • Life stand still here. • The very stone one kicks with ones boot will outlast Shakespeare • It is finished • So much depends upon distance

18. Discuss prep sheets for Beloved and To The Lighthouse (ten minutes each group- ) • Get in groups two people for each book • Make sure you have an empty exam worksheet to take notes on the book you don’t have • Discuss first four questions (go through five events) • Beloved people move to next group • Discuss symbol, narrative style, conflict, resolution of issues • Move last time • discuss themes, why novel is important, quotes

19. Which books work best for this ? • Explore the ways in which the presentation of the family, or its absence, has shaped your understanding of two novel you have studied. • (remember compare and contrast)

20. Agenda • Review tips • Essays 3rdhr • Review literary terms/devices • Look at poem sample • Tomorrow morning or afternoon is last day to make up essay test.

21. Paper 2 • Choose 2 of the works with which to answer the question. • There are 3- you choose 1 • Which works apply to the question (substance), not which question works best for the book you want to write about • Compare/contrast the works. Don’t writer separately about them.

22. 3 points of comparison • Point of comparison #1 • Novel 1 • Novel 2 • Point of comparison #2 • Novel 1 • Novel 2 • Point of Compaison #3 • Novel 1 • Novel 2 • Novel 1 • Comparison 1 • Comparison 2 • Comparison 3 • Novel 2 • Comp. 1 • Comp2 • Comp.3 • This is more like mini essays, not as sophistiscated

23. UNPACK THE QUESTION • Deconstruct • Need to compare both works • Argue the positive not the negative • (what something is, rather than what it is not.) • Literary elements and features • Whatever you use make sure you explain the effect…why the poet or author uses it.

24. For exam • For every point supply evidence • Direct or indirect evidence. .

25. Paper 1 • You are given a poem and prose extract. • Choose one to comment on. • How to do this? • Identify theme • technique • Pupose • Literary devices that contribute to theme and purpose • Incorporate quotes. • (think back to poetry commentaries you did on Duffy and commentaries you wrote on The Scarlet Letter and Lear.) • Duffy uses __________,__________and _________to reveal the theme of______________________.

26. Activity • List lit terms on board • Define ones we don’t know • Read poem • Highlight poetic devices and try to identify theme Circle terms on board that apply to poem and how author uses them

27. Agenda • Practice commentary paper 1 • As you read annotate • Identify main themes • Look at technique • Ask the how and why of the poemWhat poetic devices does she use and what is the effect?

28. How to divide time: Paper 1 and 2 15 minutes paper 1: read both poem and passage (choose one) Paper 2: read all the questions and decide which works would work best for one of the questions 30 minutes: Paper 1 annotate what you chose and generate thesis Paper 2 map your evidence in place. Organize points and evidence, develop thesis 50 minutes: Craft essay, start writing 15 minutes: edit.

29. Ch 11: “So much depends upon distance.” (LH) • Love had a thousand shapes • Disharmony: could not achieve that razor edge of balance between two opposite forces: Mr. R and the picture • Theme of shapes: There was a famous man now called Carmichael, she smiled, thinking how many shapes one person might wear…

30. Commentary on The Ending (LH)12-13 QUESTION: How does the ending resolve the issues presented in the work? We will read this out loud. mark quotes that are quotable, or write them as we read When we are finished….re-read first 2 pages of beginning silently Then…write in response to the question. I will collect this. (10 pts)