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- 2. AGENDA Teams 1 Discussion: Readings 16-38 Discussion: The Hunger Games: Stories Presentation: Essay #2 In-Class Writing: page 46 SMG 1. Beginning with a quotation/transitioning to your remembered event. 2. Vivid presentation of a place: Using sensory details: 643-648
- 3. 2. The teams will change on or near essay due dates. 3. You must change at least 50% of your team after each project is completed. 4. You may never be on a team with the same person more than twice. 5. You may never have a new team composed of more than 50% of any prior team. 1. We will often use teams to earn participation points. Your teams can be made up of 4 or 5 people.
- 4. Points will be earned for correct answers to questions, meaningful contributions to the discussion, and the willingness to share your work. Each team will track their own points, but cheating leads to death (or loss of 25 participation points). Answers, comments, and questions must be posed in a manner that promotes learning. Those who speak out of turn or with maliciousness will not receive points for their teams.
- 5. At the end of each class, you will turn in a point sheet with the names of everyone in your group (first name, last initial) and your accumulated points for the day. It is your responsibility to make the sheet, track the points, and turn it in. Sit near your team members in class to facilitate ease of group discussions Billy R III Lan N IIII Jose S III Christine L II 13 points
- 6. Your First Group! Get into groups of four. (1-2 minutes) If you can’t find a group, please raise your hand. Once your group is established, choose one person to be the keeper of the points. Write down members’ names Keep track of points Turn in your sheet at the end of the class period.
- 7. The Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen Gale Hawthorne Peeta Mellark Prim Everdeen Mrs. Everdeen Rue Haymitch Abernathy Cinna Effie Trinket In your groups, make a list of one or more important experiences each of these characters has. What kind of emotion does each provoke? Can you relate to any one of these experiences?
- 8. In your groups, discuss your homework posts concerning analyzing writing strategies (Post #3): 6-8 minutes.
- 9. Annie Dillard “An American Childhood”
- 12. Jean Brandt “Calling Home” 1. How does Brandt set the stage for her story? How does she try to get you to identify with her? 2. What is your first impression of Brandt? What is the author’s attitude toward her younger self? 3. Point out active verbs that enliven the text. What is the effect of all these action Verbs? (particularly par 3-5). 4. Look for places in the essay where Brandt discloses her feelings at the time the event occurred. What do you learn about Brandt from her remembered thoughts in pars. 5–8? 5. How does your understanding of Brandt deepen or change through what she writes in pars. 16–18? 6. Note the dialogue. What techniques can you identify? How does the dialogue in pars. 21–24 add to the drama? 7. What is the effect of interweaving storytelling and describing with remembering thoughts and feelings in par. 35? 8. How, and how well, does this ending work? Consider it in conjunction with the introduction. In your groups, discuss the following questions: 5 minutes
- 14. The Writing Assignment Using The Hunger Games as your starting point, write an essay about an event in your life that will engage readers and that will, at the same time, help them understand the significance of the event. Tell your story dramatically and vividly in three to five pages. Format: MLA style (For help, see “MLA Formatting” on the website”). Please give your paper an original title; don't underline or put quotation marks around your own title.
- 15. The Goal: Writing a Good Introduction The Strategy: Choose a provocative or interesting quotation (four typed lines or more) from The Hunger Games and integrate it into your introduction. Generally, you shouldn’t start with the quotation but rather work it in after a few sentences. You might introduce the novel and the author and provide a bit of background about the story. Summarize what is happening in the novel at the point of your quotation, and then explain the context (particular setting) for the quotation. This is important because it sets up the connection to your own experience. Then, write a transition paragraph, making a connection between the quotation and the event in your life. Your thesis sentence will likely be the sentence in which you clearly make that connection (we will talk more about theses in our next meeting).
- 16. Before the opening ceremonies, Katniss meets with her stylist, Cinna, to prepare. Cinna presses a button and a fancy meal of “Chicken and chunks of oranges cooked in a creamy sauce laid on a bed of pearly white grain, tiny green peas and onions, rolls shaped like flowers, and for dessert, a pudding the color of honey” appears (65). Katniss thinks about how difficult it would be to get a meal like this in District 12: What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to roll in and die for their entertainment? I look up and find Cinna’s eyes trained on mine. ‘How despicable we must seem to you,’ he says. (65) Katniss doesn’t respond to Cinna’s statement, but she agrees in her head. “He’s right, though. The whole rotten lot of them is despicable” (65). Although our world does not really consist of a Capitol and many districts, there are still some people who live more comfortably than others. For people like me who live in privilege, life is easy. Food is readily available if I want to eat. Outside of school, I don’t really have many responsibilities. I don’t have to worry about how I will survive day to day. My family has told me on many occasions to think about how lucky I am to live the way I do. In other countries, life is hard. In Africa, children starve to death as a result of famine and poverty. People my age in some countries are working more than my parents do. Katniss’s disgust for the extravagant Capitol is similar to the disgust I felt for myself when I listened to an account of one man’s visit to factories in China. How Despicable We Must Seem
- 17. 1. Choose a provocative or interesting quotation (four typed lines or more) from The Hunger Games that you can connect to an experience in your own life. 2. Summarize what is happening in the novel at the point of your quotation. 3. Then, write a transition paragraph, making a connection between the quotation and the event in your life. 4. Now make a quick narrative ladder: Where and when did your event take place? Setting Rising action Climax Resolution
- 18. The Goal: Create A Vivid Presentation of Places Recreate the time and place of the event Ground readers in specifics: • When? Christmas morning; one day in late fall, Saturday night • Where? At a 7-11 in San Jose, at my Aunt Helen’s Easter party, In the back alley of a club in Sunnyvale Name specific objects • White, spherical snowball • City clothes • Translucent skin • Dirty sidewalk
- 19. The Strategy: Listing Key Places Make a list of all the places where the event occurred, skipping some space after each entry on your list. In the space after each entry on your list, make some notes describing each place. What do you see (except people for now)? What objects stand out? Are thy large or small, green or brown, square or oblong? What sounds do you hear? Do you detect any smells? Does any taste come to mind? Any textures?
- 20. Writing Tips Use present tense when describing the events in a novel or film or story: “Katniss volunteers” or “Haymitch is drinking heavily.” Your thesis for this paper will be the transition sentence from the event in The Hunger Games to your own narrative event: “Katniss’s disgust for the extravagant Capitol is similar to the disgust I felt for myself when I listened to an account of one man’s visit to factories in China.” Use chronological order to tell your story. Use past tense to describe the event(s) in your life: “I was camping with my family up in Yosemite.”
- 21. HOMEWORK Read: HG through chapter 9. Post #5: finish and post your in-class writing 1. Beginning with a quotation/transitioning to your remembered event. 2. Vivid presentation of a place: Using sensory details: 643-648