In Class:
Welcome!
Journal-- Take an ‘identity inventory’ of your characteristics and the roles you play in your life. Begin each line with “I am…”
Lecture and discussion: "What is literature?"
Literature -- communication, art, and truth.
Read aloud The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.
Literature is an art form of deliberately and creatively constructing stories, feelings, and ideas.
Literature distinguishes itself because it stimulates our emotional and intellectual sides.
Critical reading allows us to access the unique and important elements of literature. Critical reading is:
- critical - transactional - investigatory
- active/attentive - deliberate
- personal - communal/collaborative
Constructed and explained the iceberg metaphor:
Reviewed syllabus and class expectations.
Introduced and distributed The Catcher in the Rye.
Exit ticket: If I do one thing to be successful this block, it will be...
Homework:
Read through p. 16 of Catcher.
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