Thursday, February 5 prologue and chapter 1 Ethan Frome

Learning Targets: 

Students will interpret words and phrases as they are used in the text, including technical, connotative and figurative meanings, and analyze how the specific word choices shape the meaning.
RI.11-12.2  Students will determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.
RI.11-12.3 Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text. 
RI.11-12.6 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text. 

Reminder: vocabulary quiz on Friday. Study! 

Graded assignments: have you turned in the following?
The last page on synonyms from "The Raven"?(January 23)
Your background information responses on Naturalism? (January 30)
The Prologue responses? (February 3)
See me outside of class, if you need another handout or better yet, check the assignment on the blog.

In class: Ethan Frome vocabulary power point review for tomorrow's quiz.
               Dialectical journal for the Prologue. This is due at the start of class on Friday and will count as a writing grade (50% category). Rather than a culminating paper, we will have a series of dialectical journals and quick writes. These will be graded on content, fluency, word choice and language conventions. Unless you have a posted legal absence, the work will be considered late after the due date. Note that if you may always send along the assignment electronically.

class handout / copy below

Name: _______________________________ Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Dialectical journal for the Prologue 7 responses required    Due at the beginning of class 2/6 Dialectic means “the art or practice of arriving at the truth by using conversation involving question and answer.” The “dialectic” was the method Socrates used to teach his students how to be actively engaged in the struggle to obtain meaning from an unfamiliar and challenging work. A dialectical journal is a written conversation with yourself about a piece of literature that encourages the habit of reflective questioning. You will use a double-entry form to examine details of a passage and synthesize your understanding of the text.

There is to be NO collaboration with other students. This will count as a writing grade, for which you will be assessed on content, fluency, word choice and language conventions.

PROCEDURE: As you read, choose passages that stand out to you and record them in the left-hand column the chart. These must at a minimum be a full sentence and from different pages in the assigned section. Select text that resonates with you. (ALWAYS include page numbers).

In the right column, write your response to the text (ideas/insights, questions, reflections, and comments on each passage)

 Label your responses using the following codes:

 (Q) Question – ask about something in the passage that is unclear

 (C) Connect – make a connection to your life, the world, or another text

 (P) Predict – anticipate what will occur based on what’s in the passage

 (CL) Clarify – answer earlier questions or confirm/disaffirm a prediction

(R) Reflect – think deeply about what the passage means in a broad sense –not just to the characters in the story/author of the article. What conclusions can you draw about the world, about human nature, or just the way things work?

(E) Evaluate - make a judgment about what the author is trying to say.

Textual evidence	Page number	Response; label each code; use each at least once.
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