Transcript May 18-19 – Jr. Am. Lit

May 18/19 - Jr. American Lit.
You will need:
• Pen/Pencil
• Notebook paper
• Essay
Agenda:
• OPTIC
• Intro to O’Brien
• Reading Journals
• Directions, etc.
Homework:
• Work on your
personal essay
• Keep up with the
reading schedule
• Reading/Journaling
• Conferences
OPTIC
• OPTIC is a strategy for
analyzing visual media
that helps you see how
the parts of a visual
image contribute to the
meaning or effect of the
piece as a whole.
• This unit is focused on
the art of storytelling
and the power of
showing instead of
telling.
• Photography is one way
to start the conversation
about how images (both
visual and literary) tell a
story more powerfully
than bland commentary.
• Use your OPTIC student
page to analyze the
picture that you have
been given
• O - Overview: write a brief overview of the
photograph ("This photo depicts...")
• P - Parts: note any details that seem important
(what the soldiers are wearing, what they carry,
what they don't have that you might expect them
to have, facial expressions, placement, framing of
the picture) What aspects of the soldiers are
accentuated?
• T - Title: what is the title of the photograph?
What might a good alternative title be? Why?
• I - Interrelationships: how are the parts related to
both one another and the overall photograph?
Are there any repetitions (parallels or patterns) in
the photograph? Any contradictions or ironies?
What relationships between the parts does the
photograph invite you to make?
• C - Conclusion: draw a conclusion about the
photograph as a whole. How do the visual
elements (focus, light, line, repetition etc.) and
composition (angle, vantage point of the
photographer, framing, contrast, central focus,
etc.) create an effect or tell a story?
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Intro to O’Brien:
• Watch the following video
• http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/video/blog/2010/04/aut
hor_tim_obrien_recalls_viet.html
• Was there anything that stuck out to you? Any quotes or ideas
that you found interesting or agreed/disagreed with?
Reading Journals
• Overview: Tim O’Brien’s honest and perspective-changing
novel, The Things They Carried, reads like a memoir about the
Vietnam War, although it is in fact a work of fiction.
• On the copyright page of the novel appears the following:
"This is a work of fiction. Except for a few details regarding the
author's own life, all the incidents, names, and characters are
imaginary."
• Although Tim O’Brien did serve as a foot soldier in the
Vietnam War and a character named Tim O’Brien appears in
the novel, the author invents soldiers, places, and events to
get to the truth of the Vietnam War as he knows it.
• A stunningly realistic tribute to the soldiers’ experience of
Vietnam, The Things They Carried was a finalist for the Pulitzer
Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Reading Journals
• Directions: As you read the novel, keep a reading journal of
your thoughts, ideas, impressions, and questions about each
reading assignment.
• Writing about what you've read has several benefits: it
enables you to remember what you've read; it exposes
weaknesses in your understanding; it raises questions you
might not otherwise think about; it stimulates observations
you might not otherwise have made; it helps you keep a
record of characters, events, and themes and thereby helps in
studying and reviewing material
Your reading journal will include:
1) At least nine total entries – one for each section (listed as
“Reading Assignments” below)
2) A heading for each entry, which includes the reading
assignment you’re responding to and the date of your journalwriting
3) Your own reading notes, ideas and questions about each
reading assignment.
a. If you are at a loss for something to write about, refer to the
reader’s guide questions to get you started
4) Responses to questions and/or writing prompts assigned in
class and in the “Reading Assignments”
5) Optional: your own ideas arising from your reading,
responses to class discussions, problems you are having with
the literature we're reading, connections that you can make to
the present day
6) Specific details from the text with page numbers
Format:
• Create a Word document or a Google document for your journal.
When you do your first entry, open up a document, put the date at
the top, the assignment you are responding to, and begin writing.
Save it as a document. When you read more of the book, go back
and re-open the document and put a new heading where you left off
and continue writing again. At the end, you’ll have a document with
multiple entries tracing your journey through the book.
• You will need to have your journal accessible in class, so save it as a
Google document, or bring it with you on a flash drive
• Length: each journal entry should be between 250 and 300 words
(about a page typed, double spaced.)
• If you wish, you can hand-write notes in a notebook and then type
them to a Word document later, but it needs eventually to be typed
since you will be submitting it online to Turnitin.com. While the
journal does not need to be written in a formal style nor are you
expected to revise and edit your journal, correcting all mechanical
errors before you submit each entry
Category
Engagement
with the Text
3 - Distinguished
Entries show evidence of
deep engagement with the
text. Commentary is
insightful and based closely
on the text.
2 - Proficient
Entries show evidence of
engagement with the text.
Commentary is sound and
based on the text.
1 - Emerging
Entries show evidence of
basic understanding of the
text, but fair to little
engagement. Commentary is
based somewhat on the text.
At times, commentary may
slip into summary or
speculation.
Development
Ideas are fully developed
with commentary and
supported with concrete
details from the text.
Ideas are somewhat
developed with commentary
and supported with concrete
details from the text.
At least 250 words in length
150-250 words in length
Ideas are somewhat
underdeveloped with
commentary and concrete
details from the text may be
lacking.
100-150 words in length
Presentation
Entries are typed, doublespaced. Your journal is
edited for conventions.
Entries are typed, doublespaced. Your journal is
edited for conventions.
There are no errors
There are some errors
Someone else can read your
entries easily.
Someone else can read your
entries easily.
0 - Incomplete
Entries lack
evidence of basic
understanding or
engagement with
the text.
Commentary is
rarely based on the
text. Commentary
is mere summary,
speculation, or offtopic.
Ideas are
underdeveloped
with commentary
and concrete
details from the
text are lacking.
Less than 100
words long
Entries are typed. Your
Entries do not
journal is somewhat edited
conform to the
for conventions. Many errors required format
and are not edited
Someone else can read your
for conventions. It
entries, although some errors
is difficult for
may cause the reader to
someone else to
stumble.
read your entries.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday/Thursday
5/18-19
Friday
5/20
Introduction &
Reading Assignment 2
Reading Assignment 1 – Page 27-66
– Page 1-26
5/23
5/24
5/25-26
5/27
Reading Assignment 3 Reading Assignment 4 Reading Assignment 5 Reading Assignment 6
– Page 67-88
– Page 89-116
– Page 117-136
– Page 137-161
5/30
6/1
6/2-3
6/4
No School – Memorial
Day
Reading Assignment 7 Reading Assignment 8 Overall Reflection
– Page 162-188
– Page 188-end
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