Thursday, November 10

Monday, November 14 ~ Short Stories Start Here!

ROOTS
  • Path, pathy – feeling, suffering
  • Plac, place – please
  • Phobia, phobos – fear
The Power of One
  • Essays returned
  • Review your Journal 3 (your old writing goals).
  • Journal 27: Record three strengths in your writing now. Then record three new writing goals based on your feedback and rubric. 

Short Stories
Discuss the EQ: Why study short stories anyway?

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Journal 28 (HW if we do not complete in class)
First, copy the SAT vocab:
  • prodigy - child of highly unusual talent or genius
  • lamented - said with regret or sorrow
  • listlessly - without energy or interest
  • discordant - clashing; not in harmony
  • dawdled - wasted time; lingered
  • stricken - heartbroken
  • fiasco - total failure
  • nonchalantly - without interest or concern
1) Meet the Author ~Write down 5-10 bullet point notes about the life of Amy Tan.
    *Start here or here.
2) List the internal and external conflicts in Two Kinds.
3) What makes this story engaging? List at least two strengths.
4) How would you describe the narrative style of this story? Is there power in the perspective that the author chose to use in her story telling?
5) What symbolic meaning is carried in the two songs at the end? How do they reflect the change that has occurred in Jing-mei?



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