First period examined the EQ, “How does a story’s medium affect the point of view?” We were specifically considering how the change from book to film makes a first-person point of view virtually impossible.

Second and fourth periods continued working on Great Expectations, with starters designed to force students to think analytically about sentences. Today, we turned the tables: instead of analyzing sentences, we created them:

My humble effort: My bad opinion of the young lady stemming from the harsh and violent end to the affair she had with my closest friend, I found myself very wary of conversing with Susan when I first met her.

Afterward, we went over the characters thus far in the book, dividing them into major and minor classifications. The seven to ten minutes we took doing so seemed to clear up a few misunderstandings among students.

Second Period’s Work

Fourth Period’s Work

Finally, we looked at foreshadowing in the book.

Sixth period continued with The Giver.

Seventh period began two days in the computer lab, publishing their reports.

Homework

• First period: none.
• Second and fourth periods:
• find three examples of foreshadowing in various books you’ve read in the past and determine what they have in common (i.e., what makes foreshadowing work);
• read chapters 20-22 (three chapters) in Great Expectations.
• Sixth period: read chapters six and seven from The Giver.
• Seventh period: none.