Tuesday, February 12, 2013

English 11: Make time to read your novel at home . . .

Today we added words 11 and 12, tacit and precarious.

I collected the charts and the paragraphs for The Fall of a City paragraph.

I handed out the story, "Want to Play House?" and we read and discussed the modern techniques such as
first person dramatic point of view, use of in medias res, No quotations to indicate speech, the series of commands, short, short sentences.

What is the effect of all the techniques? How do authors reveal their characters? Show rather than tell?

Be sure to have read at least 1/3 of your USSR book. You must be finished it by Feb. 20th as we will start to write the essay.