Due Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Finish the Narration and Theme sections of your website. For those doing poems, please focus on the style of your poem.

Due Monday, October 22, 2012

Revise your Plot and Setting pages. Complete Mood and Character by Monday. If you complete it earlier I will be able to look over them and give you comments. For more detailed instructions, refer to the example website: https://sites.google.com/site/bythewatersofbabylon2012/

Home: write a short introduction introducing yourself and the class you are doing this project for.
Plot: 300 words summarizing the plot. Include the internal and external conflicts, as well as the climax. If you are writing about a non-fiction piece, identify the main problem.
Setting: 300 words describing the time, place, and social context of the text. Be sure to include sensory details from the text. Also include a picture that reflects the setting and explain why.

• If you are writing a poem, you may combine Setting with Plot and write an additional section About the Author.

Mood: 300 words talking about the mood(s) of the text. Be specific about the mood(s). Use quotations to show how diction, figurative language, alliteration, rhyme, or sentence structure contribute to the mood. Also include a picture that reflects the mood and explain why.

• If you are writing about an essay, you can talk about the tone of the text instead. Combine it with narrative.

Character: 300 words about the characters in the story. Identify all of the main characters, but focus mostly on one, round and dynamic character. Choose a portrait that you think represents this character and explain why.

• If writing about an essay or a nonfiction piece where the author is a character, you may write About the Author instead.

Narrative
Theme
Personal Reaction

Due Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Create a website by going to https://sites.google.com/. Name the website after the title of the text you chose. If that is not available, try putting who the text is by, and/or put the year (2012). Please email me your website url.

Your website should have 8 pages altogether:

Home: write a short introduction introducing yourself and the class you are doing this project for.
Plot: 300 words summarizing the plot. Include the conflict, climax, and resolution.
Setting
Mood
Character
Narrative
Theme
Personal Reaction

Due Monday, October 15, 2012

Read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time to Chapter 233.

Choose a story we haven't read as a class from Unit 1 through 4 in the online textbook. Post what text you are reading, as well as what unit it is from, as a comment to this post. Please do not choose a text someone else has already chosen.

Example Post: "By the Waters of Babylon" by Stephen Vincent Benet, from Unit 3: Narration.

Due Thursday, October 11, 2012

Post an analysis, evaluation, and creation question for our Socratic Seminar on "When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine." Please don't make you own post. Comment on the existing posts in the analysis section.

Also post a word and definition for each of the 5 roots from "When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine."

Due Monday, October 8, 2012

Read and post a quotation from "When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine." It is under the Theme unit.

Vocabulary for "When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine."

Read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time up to Chapter 191

Take 500 words from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and write it from another point of view, such as 3rd person or the 1st person point of view of another character. The events of the plot should stay the same, but the different narrator may give us different information or give us different insights into different characters' thoughts and feelings.

Due Thursday, October 4, 2012

Post something for the literary term "narration."

Due Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Post an example word (and definition which uses the PRS meaning) for each of the PRS posted under "By the Waters of Babylon."

Write a one page, double-spaced, size 12 Times New Roman font paper with one-inch margins on your literature circle role (narrative, character, setting, or plot). Bring a typed, printed copy to class and be prepared to share on Wednesday.