Monday, September 24th

Goals:

• I can explain how plot helps create meaning in my book and in a short story. 
• I can read a text closely, tracking my thinking in a reading journal. 

Announcements: 

• Read about 100 pages of your independent novel, tracking your thinking in your reading journal.  Ms. Feliks will assess reading journals this week. 
• Write a mini-analysis of plot for "A Rose for Emily" or your independent novel.  Due Wednesday. 
• For Friday, bring in one page a year-long project: Senior Scrapbook. You need an artifact and a piece of writing.   

1.  Book Talk & Reading/Reading Journal Work 


2. What is a good literary analysis? 

• What are the strengths of this essay?  

3. Plot Structure--notes 

• Please tape the notes inside your notebook and highlight what is important as we go over it. 

3. Discuss ---"A Rose for Emily"

• What is this story about? What's important? 
• What is the major conflict? 
• Does the plot structure help us understand the meaning or help the overall effect of the text?