Goals for the Day:
Apply literary terms to your critical reading of a text.
Dig in to literature with the goal of analyzing the "evidence" in the text.
In groups: Analyze "Yours" (one person scribe group notes)
1. What do we know about the characters?
2. What is the central conflict?
3. What does the dialogue reveal about their relationship?
4. Do we see any foreshadowing?
5. Does this story contain irony?
6. What type of narrator does this story have? How would it be different with a 1st person narrator?
7. How does setting influence our interpretation?
8. Are there any symbols?
9. What universal themes does this story illuminate?
Whole class share: Interpretations?
Montana 1948: Socratic Seminar and Literary Analysis
WORK TIME
- TEA paragraph on "Yours" due by the end of the hour. Please feel free to revise your paragraph if your group work expanded your thinking on the story.
- Read Montana 1948