Monday, April 4, 2016

Learning Objectives:

• How do I make inferences and predictions about character change?
• How do I apply understanding of plot and subplot to a discussion of a novel?

Tonight: Read 16 - 17.  One new DEJ.

Warm-Up:

1. Share your responses from your DEJ about Chapters 11-15.

2. What seems important in this set of chapters?

Work Period:

3. Using the back of your handout from last week, review the following: 

What can you infer or predict about one girl's internal changes/growth?

Group A: Sal

Group B: Phoebe

• What are the most significant events in the girl's Physical and Emotional Journey?
• What are the most significant character traits of the girl's parents?
• Who else seems important in her story?  Why?
• What do you predict or infer from these events and these characters?

4. Class Notebook: 4/4: Physical and Emotional Journeys (Everyone: Respond to A and B)

• Consider Phoebe and Sal's Emotional Journeys - 

• A. Summarize the predictions and inferences you have about Sal's emotional journey. 
• B. Do you think Phoebe is on an emotional journey of any kind?  What does her future hold?  What is the basis of your prediction?

5. Class Notebook: 4/4: Subplots 
Create a bullet list:

• Gram and Gramps
• What is their timeline together?  Do they have a plot?
• Can we call this a "subplot"?
• What other subplots are there?
• Phoebe?
• Ben and Sal?
• The Lunatic?
• Life in Kentucky?
• The Road Trip?
• Confusing, right?

6. Make sure you have answered #4 on the handout from last week.

• In Literary Analysis, it is NOT so much about the right answer as it is about providing an opinion on a topic and supporting it with various pieces of textual evidence that combine to create your opinion.

Closing:

7. Under all of the notes you've taken for "Physical and Emotional Journeys" and Subplots, create a graphic organizer or thinking map that helps you analyze and explore the concepts of Plot and Subplot.