How To Analyze & Respond to Literature & Live a Literate Life
This week, we are going to use our four class periods to learn and practice how to create insightful, unified, and well-crafted literary analysis paragraphs.
Your homework each night is to read and blog--at least fifteen minutes spent on each.
The Class Periods: It is a pretty simple formula for a week's work in the classroom, but I want to make sure we use our class time wisely, as learning how to craft analysis paragraphs is a critical skill that you will need to use time and again throughout the next eight years of life in high school and college--and more than likely through your whole life.
We will be using the Literary Analysis Paragraph Rubric that can be downloaded from the sidebar of this blog or found under the resources tab on The Crafted Word website. Our goal is to create two paragraphs, each of which "explicates" (which means to explain in detail) a major theme evident in the first sixteen chapters of Tom Sawyer.
Homework: Each night you will be required to read a chapter from Tom Sawyer and write a brief (one paragraph) reading response posted to your Tom Sawyer and Journal categories that tries to relate something that happened in the chapter to something that has happened in your life--or which is relevant to life today.
I will explain everything in class on Monday, and we will get cracking right away.
Your homework each night is to read and blog--at least fifteen minutes spent on each.
The Class Periods: It is a pretty simple formula for a week's work in the classroom, but I want to make sure we use our class time wisely, as learning how to craft analysis paragraphs is a critical skill that you will need to use time and again throughout the next eight years of life in high school and college--and more than likely through your whole life.
We will be using the Literary Analysis Paragraph Rubric that can be downloaded from the sidebar of this blog or found under the resources tab on The Crafted Word website. Our goal is to create two paragraphs, each of which "explicates" (which means to explain in detail) a major theme evident in the first sixteen chapters of Tom Sawyer.
Homework: Each night you will be required to read a chapter from Tom Sawyer and write a brief (one paragraph) reading response posted to your Tom Sawyer and Journal categories that tries to relate something that happened in the chapter to something that has happened in your life--or which is relevant to life today.
I will explain everything in class on Monday, and we will get cracking right away.