Objective: By the end of class, students will examine literary devices (POV and inferencing) in short fiction in order to improve literal and interpretive reading comprehension skills and make real world connections.

DO NOW

Check the walls and ensure notebook is updated for a notebook check.

Direct Instruction

Review the PROS and CONS of different Points of View - narrative perspectives

Independent / Guided

Complete the following constructed responses regarding inferring, narrative perspective and irony in Notes from a Bottle (Pages 375-377).  Remember to use the format we have been using to answer constructed responses for EVERY one (restate, explain, example (quote), closing sentence).

1.     Explain why the author, James Stevenson, uses a 1^st person narrative perspective and journal entry format to develop the storyline of Notes from a Bottle.

2.     Identify one example of situational irony. Then analyze the author’s purpose in using situational irony in Notes from a Bottle.

3.      There are many ambiguities in this story (cause of the flood, how widespread it is, the outcome at the end, etc). Choose one ambiguity from Notes in a Bottle and evaluate why the author made this part of the story ambiguous.

Closure

Exit PAss