Here is the worksheet that you will need to complete in two weeks time. You will have two full days in class to read the story and work on your worksheet. We will spend an additional day for the "Research" section of your work. I think you will really enjoy these stories!
Remember that you started brainstorming your Personal Reflective Essay today after the quiz. You will need to have this finalized, in pen or printed, with proper grammar and usage on Monday. Remember to follow the formula I have outlined on the assignment sheet. You can do this!
Today, we begin to read Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder." In addition to thinking about The Hero's Journey in this text, consider some of the following literary traits:
I asked you to give me what characteristics must be present for a story to be a story. You seemed to boil down the qualifications to four main things: characters, setting, plot, and meaning. After establishing these qualifications, I shocked you with 55-Fiction!
So with these "Shortest Stories" we have completed a rotation of Independent Reading so that I can answer your questions and guide you through the process with a short, easy text before you launch into reading full short stories, novels, or other texts.
Be thinking of novels, stories, or other texts that you have always wanted to read!
Poe is notorious for his "scary" stories and creepy tales. We will spend the rest of this week looking into Poe's creative arts and compare his writing to writing of his time.
Today we read an earlier tale comparing the power in old money vs. new money. Looking into William Faulkner's voice of Reconstruction South, we step inside the mind of a crazy Antebellum woman from the old upper class. Yet instead of the victor in Gatsby being the old-$$-literally-runs-over-new-$$, the new generation in "A Rose for Emily" leaves the old $$ behind in favor of modern technologies and services.
Now that you have finished The Great Gatsby, check out this hilarious summary and analysis of the book thanks to Thug Notes just for your own entertainment.
DISCLAIMER: Profanity is used in the following video.
After years of planning and developing, the Online American Library is now LIVE! This is a fantastic resource - and will only get bigger each year! With any luck all American library systems will share their digital collections, creating one of the largest inventories of information, music, and books available for free (well, our taxes pay for it) in the world.
