Cannery Row

1. Today we will re-examine the purpose of including vignettes in a novel, and will select vignettes from your timeline to include in the novella you are creating about your own life. Cannery Row John Steinbeck

2. Agenda 1. Reviewing Vignettes 2. Group Reading: 23 & 25 3. Partner Persuasive Essay • Take out a piece of paper – put everyone’s name at the top. Assignment: Table Group Discussions • In groups of 4 (using your Jigsaw Vignette Summaries) quickly go over again the short stories or “vignettes” that Steinbeck has used. • Create a plot structure for Cannery Row, write the main plot on top of the and then add the vignettes in between events. • How have the vignettes meant something? Reflect on the Reading

3. Group Reading – Chapter 23, 25 & 27 What is Mack & the Boys plan for redemption? Do you think it will work? What does Doc mean when he says the boys are “True Philosophers”?

4. Assignment: Write a vignette in which you recapture a moment of time (length requirement, 300-500words).  • Concentrate on details. This is not a narrative essay.  Unlike an essay, there will be neither an introduction nor a conclusion. • There will be less telling, more showing.  (For example, NOT:  Mary was nervous.  YES:  Mary had butterflies in her stomach; her hands were cold and clammy.) • Using words, create images that appeal to the senses.  • Add details, dialogue, and embellish (you can fictionalize what happened to make it a “better” story.) Let the essence of the story be true, but add what you need to add to make your point. • You will have approximately 20 minutes to complete your story. Writing Workshop

5. HOMEWORK: READ CHAPTER 28

6. How will this new party go? Is it going to happen?

7. Thank you! See you in a couple days!