Tuesday, March 24 - Notes form a Bottle

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze different narrative perspectives (POVs) and inferencing in order to improve reading interpretive skills.

DO NOW

For PERIOD 1/2 - Complete POV handout from yesterday's DO NOW.

Think about if Notes from a Bottle was written in Third Person Omniscient narrative perspective. Name three things that you would KNOW that you don't now because it is written in first person POV.


Direct Instruction

Inference video - take notes



Guided / Independent

Complete questions on Page 379. Remember, you must PROVIDE TEXTUAL EVIDENCE when inferencing. You MUST SAY WHY you infer what you do by going back to the text. 

Then choose two of the three constructed responses below and add it to your questions / answers on the same NEO file. Remember to use the format we have been using to answer constructed responses for EACH one (restate, explain, example (quote), closing sentence).

Point of View Question

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

Irony Question

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

Inferencing Question

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

Review Inferencing, irony and point of view.

Exit Pass

I am going to be absent tomorrow. I infer from past experience, that all of you will not do the work that I leave for the sub. If you do, it would be quite ironic. However, how I am going to grade this work is ambiguous to you. So to those of you who desperately need points, or don't want you grade to drop, ask yourself, is it worth it NOT to do it? Hmmmm....what do you infer?