Summer Reading for 11th grade

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Writing Workshop!

BE SURE TO COPY AND PASTE YOUR SHORT STORY DRAFT INTO YOUR GROUP'S GOOGLE DOC BEFORE 8AM ON FRIDAY.

SL5 3.4

SL5 3.4
Do now: “One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, ‘Poo-tee-weet.’” Why does Vonnegut end with this moment? (Hint: he ends chapter 1 with this this phrase)

Objectives:
Connecting Vonnegut’s methods to meaning
Create a group creative short story

Agenda:
1. Do now
2. Gallery walk: select one of following questions and draft an assertion statement connecting to a larger meaning/theme
A. Why is Billy an optometrist?
B. Why does Vonnegut repeat blue/ivory?
C. Why does Vonnegut repeat the phrase “so it goes?”
3. Round robin writing!
4. Summarizer

Homework: review the creative writing assignment sheet and select a topic and literary technique

DO NOW: Freewrite about the events last Friday

OBJECTIVES: analyze Vonnegut’s use of literary devices to create humor/ social commentary.

1. DO NOW
2. Tralf/Earthling chart
3. Discuss chapter 8:

   1. Why does Campbell visit the American POWs?   

   2. How does Derby respond to Campbell? What does Vonnegut admire about Derby’s “moment”?

   3. How does Billy meet Trout?

   4. What does Trout’s story about robots perhaps say about the bombing of Dresden?

   5. How does Billy react to the barbershop quartet? Why do you think this is/what does it show about him?

   6. How does Billy describe Dresden after the fire-bombing?

   7. What do the American fighter planes do after the fire-bombing?

   8. What do the Americans find in the suburb of Dresden?
4. John Green Lecture, continued
5. 1. Is Vonnegut against all war? What event is his main criticism in Sl-5?
   2. What is the point of the first part of ch 10, about his guns rusting?

HW: Finish book

SL5 2.

DO NOW- open/fill out the following chart

How are Tralfamadorians and Earthlings most different, and what is Vonnegut showing us through these differences?

Tralfamadorians vs. Earthings:   look on the following pages to find 3 passages to analyze: 26-7, 75-77, 85-88, 114-117,133

Tralfamadorians	Earthlings	Analysis
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2
3

Objectives: analyze Vonnegut’s use of literary devices to create humor/ social commentary.

AGENDA:

1. Do now
2. Discuss chapter 6-7 :
1. How does Billy feel about his own death/how will it happen? “If you think that death is a terrible thing, then you have not understood a word I’ve said” (142).
2. Where might Billy have gotten the “idea” of the Tralfamadorians?
3. What’s the irony on page 146 about the city of Dresden?
4. Whose feet are “blue and ivory” on p 148? Why do you think Billy’s feet are also described this way?
5. When does Vonnegut appear again (148)?
6. Who are the “hundred ridiculous creatures” that the new German officers see, and why do the German soldiers feel relieved?
7. Why are the war widow’s gloves white on a zinc (bluish grey) countertop? What does she say about all the “real soldiers”? (159)
8. Why are spoons hidden all over the syrup factory?

3. Discussion: Your other observations/questions from chapters 6-7

4. Begin John Green’s Sl-5 Video

HW: read chapter 8 to the middle of page 192

SL5 2.1

DO NOW:  Grab the chapter 5a close reading passage and start your close-reading annotations. (“The Englishmen were…”)

OBJECTIVES:  connect method to meaning in  Vonnegut’s works

AGENDA:

1. DO NOW- 10 minutes
2. Mini-Socratic Seminar and Passage discussion (10 min)

       -thesis statement exercises (5 mins)

3. Non-linear narration creative writing:
1. Choose one of the following prompts and compose a short (1 page) narrative:
2. A) a series of events from your life or from a well-known story told out of sequence or backwards- What changes when you change the order of events?
3. OR: B) create an anti-hero to a well-known hero. Write a description of your anti-hero and a short dialogue between your anti-hero and another character from the film/book - what changes when you change their dominant characteristics?
4. (if time) reading chapter 5, part 2
5. Summarize: what is Vonnegut’s message about war in ch. 5?

HW: Read the second half of chapter 5 (pages 112-135)

DO NOW- In tables groups, discuss literary findings from chapter 3 close reading passage (River)

Objectives: find and analyze literary devices in Vonnegut’s work

AGENDA:

1) DO NOW

2) In table groups: create a method to meaning thesis statement for the River metaphor close reading passage (chapter 3)

3) Close reading Chapter 4 (8 minutes)

4) Table discussion/ Method to Meaning statement practice (5)

4) Discuss: Would you expect fiction or non-fiction to be more accurate in conveying an emotional experience?

5) Read “How to Tell a True War Story” by Tim O’Brien

6)Passage Discussion:

Why does O’Brien make up fictions that are somehow “truer”

than real stories?  How can fiction be more true than  non-fiction?

 

What made you feel the strongest emotions in the chapter? How did O’Brien do this?

How does Vonnegut’s writing relate to O’Brien’s idea that true war stories cannot have morals?

7) Summarize: How can fiction convey truths about human experiences?  How does this relate to Sl-5 so far?

HW:  read first half of Chapter 5 (87-top paragraph of 112)