Thursday, November 29, 2018
76 minutes
1. You will be writing about your
Independent Book. To get some ideas, you will get together with others and
discuss your book. As you have this discussion, I will come around and check
off your dialogue journals.
Pre-writing
small group discussion: Use your journals and books to discuss and find
examples for these questions:
Get together
with others who read your book and share/discuss these topics and find specific
evidence (page numbers!!!)
1. How did the main character
“identify?” (think about race, class,
gender, age, religion, ethnicity, nationality, etc.) Passages? Page #?
2. Was the main character oppressed or
discriminated against or threatened or in some way negatively impacted because
of aspects of their identity? Why? How?
When? (give specific examples). Passages? Page #?
3. In what ways did the main character succeed
because of aspects of their identity? What parts of their identity gave them
strength to persevere and to succeed? Passages? Page #?
5. Begin writing in Google Classroom. In
order to write the best possible essay that you can, you will need to work
on this outside of class as well.
The final
(and only) draft is due by 10:00 p.m. WEDNESDAY, December 5.
