10.28.13

Objectives:

I can analyze a theme's development over the course of a text through character, setting, and plot.

I can analyze the difference in points of view of characters and audience or reader.

1.  Launch
   1a.  When you finish early, review your Double-Entry Journal for Stranger in the Village

2.  Reviewing Chunk 6
    2a.  Whole class reading
    2b. Answer the following questions at the bottom of your Double Entry Journal:

1. Content:  Discuss the new description of the village in which Baldwin is a stranger.  
2. How does Baldwin's diction advance his tone and/or theme?  
3. Craft:  Why is Baldwin's thesis presented in three sentences ( paragraph 14)?  What effect does the syntax of this paragraph have on the reader?

3.  Chunk 7 -- read in small groups

    3a.  Circle the words "America" and "American."  

    3b.  Consider what the repetition of these words reflects about Baldwin's purpose and audience. 

4.  Chunk 8 -- read whole class


Homework:
Socratic Seminar Prep