Book Club
We spent the first half of the period writing a literary paragraph on our novels and the last half of the class was devoted to the discussion. If you were away, I expect to receive your paragraph next class.
Topic: We discussed the value of a good question. A really strong but open-ended question drives our understanding of a passage or a chapter. Create an excellent question that will allow discovery.
For example: Discuss the role of pride in Hardy's novel. Why does Winston say that orthodoxy is unconsciousness? How is the motif of a palimpsest important in Atwood's novel? What are the key factors which make Elizabeth Bennet believable? How does the first sentence of Bronte's novel create a key motif for Jane's growth as a character?
Create a fabulous question. Answer it in a formal, literary paragraph of 250 to 350 words.
I collected these paragraphs after half an hour of writing. Next, we presented in our book club groups.
Homework: Keep making headway on getting the novel read and the quotations chosen for your quote log.
Review the Romantic Period notes, Burns and Blake and their poems.
Understand the similarities between innocence and experience.
