Announcements
Jessica is quarantined and sad to not be with you!
As things stand now, Exhibition continues to be planned for Wednesday, January 12th, 5-7 @the Powerhouse.
Performances will rehearse tomorrow during class and time each, so if that is you, come ready for that!
Everyone else should be refining their work and printing out the writing for mounting on black paper.
Exhibition Reminders:
Professional dress and professionally polished work!
Listen to your Exhibition Coordinators (Julia, Alexis, Sidney, Jaida, Nizhoni). They might know more about the structure of the evening than your quarantined teacher.
All projects should have a solid title (Bold font). Your name should appear just below the title (not bold).
For art pieces, let the title/name be on the same page as your artist statement.
Include a polished bibliography (not a list of links!).
OPTIONAL to print and share your Personal Connection Essay.
Today: More Deep Thinking About Literature!
Goal: Analyze literature with philosophical leanings and practice the skill of “making interpretive claims about literature.”
Read “Shades” by Boleslaw Prus. (OUT LOUD TOGETHER) If you already read the story on Friday or this weekend, wonderful! Reading it several times is recommended whenever possible when you analyze literature. Take it in, kids!
Discuss:
REMEMBER: There isn’t necessarily a right answer here! Interpret!
What are your general impressions of the story? What do you notice?
What might the lamplighter represent?
What might the author be trying to communicate about human life?
Read: “Mold of the Earth” (on your own)
(Optional to discuss in a small group of peers before writing the paragraph)
Choose ONE of the stories to analyze in your TEA paragraph.
If you were absent Friday, you should go back and first do the Mini-Workshop from Friday called “Making Interpretive Claims About Literature.”
This paragraph should be rooted in the same type of interpretive claim we worked on in the workshop.
You should use evidence from the text to support your claim!
Explain your interpretation with sufficient analysis.
Questions to consider:
What do you think is the message or theme of each story?
What could the author be suggesting about the #meaningoflife?
What does he seem to think about the place of humans in the great cosmic mystery?
What might specific characters or metaphors in the stories represent?
PARAGRAPH DUE AT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT!
Extra work time?
Honors: work on NHD
Exhibition prep/refinements
Ponder life on Earth in your journal
Do you have work for other classes?
Write Jessica an email and tell her all about your existential thoughts.