English 9 Class Notes

Objectives: Freshmen identified and explained character, setting, idiom, plot, imagery, irony, foreshadowing, point of view, motif, symbol, and theme in a novel.

Period 1 freshmen, we reviewed your reading of chapter 14 and moved to the dramatic events of chapter 15. We began to review your understanding of the text, but too many students didn’t seem to be engaging the activity, and I suspected many students were waiting for others to offer answers to avoid thinking through the literary issues presented in the story. So I set students to the task of individually writing an expository paragraph of a major character of their choice; this helped those less-motivated to be responsible for their own work rather than relying on a partner to carry them through, and it seemed to meet with some success. I hope your work bears me out.

I hope to see many of you in tutoring so I can help you create the best, most beautiful work possible.

April 28, 2009 | Filed Under English 9

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