Wednesday, September 18th

Goals: 

• Identify and describe what specific textual details reveal about a character, that character's perspective and that character's motives.

​Announcements: ​​

• We will turn in Writer's Notebooks on Friday. 
• Please read your choice book this week--the goal of 100 pages a week. 
• We will quiz this week on Sentence Connectors on Friday 

1. Reading & annotating

2. WN # 6--
"An aged man is but a paltry thing
A tattered coat upon a stick." 
--W.B. Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium

• What are the connotations for the word tattered and what does that imply about speaker's attitude toward the aged man? 
• List three adjectives you could use to describe a pair of shoes, each giving a different feeling about the shoes. 
  

3. Discuss  "Cathedral"--Raymond Carver

• What is interesting to talk about in this story? 
• Write a thesis statement for this story to the prompt, "Analyze how the author develops the complex character of the narrator"
• Write a topic sentence for the first body paragraph 
  • ​Turn in your annotated text and your thesis/topic sentence.