This week you will only need to post your reading details on your blog. You may include time spent reading short stories as well as independent reading. I encourage you to read ahead in short stories for this week (see assignments for the week ahead) in addition to reading other short stories in our anthology.
Instead of writing your blogs this week, please prepare for our in-class writing assignment on Monday focusing on characterization. Choose someone you know who has strong personality traits. Think about that person's most important traits and how you could portray them through indirect characterization. Remember to focus on personality traits (like being caring, observant, tough, or noble) rather than facts of the person's life (like being a student, a dancer, a middle child), though facts may help show personality. Your essay should use as many types of indirect characterization as possible. Consider the examples of characterization we have seen in "To Build a Fire," "To Da-Duh in Memoriam," and "A&P." Remember what we learned about showing vs. telling, vivid details, and active verbs/specific nouns while working on the literacy narrative.
For Monday, choose a person to write about and prepare materials that will help you write a strong portrait in class. You may bring:
- a laptop if you can and choose to
- a picture of the person you are writing about
- one page of planning or pre-writing notes (not a draft, though). I recommend the target-style inference notes as one useful way of organizing your thoughts, using one ring for the traits you plan to portray and the other for the types of characterization you'll use to do it.
You will have the full class period Monday to write and edit your essay.
so do we write a post about it or just make notes
ReplyDeleteMake a post with your reading details. For your preparation work, just make your own notes to bring to class Monday.
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