Today - we are going to review some previous chapters to get you to focus on your journals.
Here is what I want you to do for each chapters:
1) Create a list of characters
2) List the major events in the chapters
3) Connect a theme to the chapter
4) Discuss why this chapter is important in 3-5 sentences
5) List 2-3 literary elements
I'll give you 40 minutes to work on the above and then we will look at the reading for today/tonight
Unit Learning goal: Students will be able to create a multi-part literary project that details the following items:
The Literature Project
Rationale:
The purpose of this project is to assess your ability to read,
summarize, analyze, and connect pieces of literature as well as assess
your writing skills. This is your chance to show me everything you know
and have learned. This is your chance to dazzle, shine, dance, sing,
shout (during your presentation).
Assignment: You will read A Catcher in the Rye . This final project will consist of five parts.
1) A
reading log revealing your engagement with the literature. This part
should be very thorough and should contain all the things listed below.
2) A creative connection
3) A book summary/personal response paper
4) An
analysis focusing primarily on the development of one striking element
in the novel: symbolism, characterization, figurative language, theme,
plot and how that element contributes to the development of the novel’s
overall meaning.
5) A connection—a one page paper connecting the book to a short story or novel read last year by either symbolism or theme.
6) A
presentation (this could be creative—and has to be 3 minutes with
visual aids): this is an overview of your project and your understanding
of the novel.
POINT
VALUES: The analysis is worth 100 points each. The log, creative
connection, personal response, presentation, and connections are worth
50 points each. Therefore, the total point value is 350 points. This
is nearly your entire project grade for the semester.
EXPECTATIONS:
THE
READING LOG: The reading log reveals your engagement with
literature. Furthermore, a detailed reading log will significantly aid
you in the development of the rest of the project. After reading each
chapter, you should write in your log:
n A short synopsis of the action and character development
n Your interpretation of the significant events occurring in the chapter
n Noteworthy figurative language and other literary elements
n Vocabulary—unfamiliar words
Please
note that the copying of Cliff Notes or Internet Sites is
plagiarism. I want only your thoughts, don’t steal. Cheating will
equal a ZERO.
THE CREATIVE PART: Choose one of the three options below:
Take
a minor character and write a 1-2 page monologue / journal entry about
what they think of the situation / action / motivations in the book so
far.
Make
a newspaper story about one of the major events of the novel. How
would
a journalist take on those events and how would that story be different
than Holden's perspective.
Draw
a picture (or some sort of visual representation) drawing from the
reading. Be sure to include a written component explaining why you chose
to create your visual representation.
Book
Review/ Personal Response: Give a detailed summary of the book. What
did you like? What did you not like? Would you recommend this book to a
friend? Why or why not?
THE
LITERARY ANALYSIS: Choose one literary element of the book and develop a
thesis around it. Back up your thesis statements with proof from the
text. This paper should be at least 3 pages.
THE
CONNECTION: 1-2 pages connecting the novel to a short story read in
class. You may focus on theme, characterization (think dynamic), or
figurative language.
THE PRESENTATION: 3 minutes—this should be an overview of your project and what you learned. It should include a visual aid.
Scale/Rubric relating to learning goal:
4 – The student can create A Catcher in the Rye project that relates the novel the real world citing both textual evidence and examples from contemporary society.
3 – The student can create A Catcher in the Rye project that incorporates all sections of the project.
2 – With some direction/help from the teacher the student is able to create A Catcher in the Rye project that incorporates all sections of the project.
1 – Even with help from the teacher the student is unable to create A Catcher in the Rye project that incorporates all sections of the project. The student may be able to do some sections, but not all of them.
Catcher
in the Rye is a story about a young teenage
named Holden Caulfield. Holden has a
conflict with himself – he feels that everyone around him is a phony.
He seems to hate everyone and
everything. The only thoughts of
innocence and childhood bring him joy.
Perhaps he struggles to accept the hypocrisy of the adult world. Holden
is the narrator and anti-hero. The novel is a coming of age story or a
bildungsroman novel. You will need to look
at the following themes, symbols and conflicts while reading:
MAJOR THEMES: SYMBOLS:
Loss of Innocence Alle’s
Baseball Glove
Rebellion From Society Holden’s Red Hunting Cap
Mental Instability The
Duck Pond
Death The
Carrousel
Hypocrisy Holden
Caulfield’s name
Sexual Confusion Kings in the
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Major Conflict: Person vs. Self. Holden has a hard time dealing with the
people around him believing that they are all phonies and either pretending to
be something that they are not, or selling themselves for some reason. Everyone is untruthful.
OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the unit students will be able to
1) Define
character development, irony, metaphor, personification, subplot, atmosphere,
tone, allusion, symbol, bildungsroman. Antihero.
2)
List all the characters that appear in the novel and describe their
physical appearance, motivations, social class.
3)
List various allusions and foreshadows and discuss what they mean in
relation to plot.
4)
List the various types of conflict that occur throughout the novel and
discuss who the conflicts are between.
5)
Keep a journal that outlines the novel – and the plot
6)
List three themes and in a paragraph or more discuss how these themes
work in the novel.
7)
In an essay of a page or more discuss how Bradbury uses particular
images or characters as symbols and discuss how these symbols reflect larger
themes or ideas in the novel.
8)
Outline the character development (inward change) of various characters
(to be mentioned later).
9)
List and outline the central plot.
10) In a paragraph or more discuss how the title and
the images of innocence or childhood
11) Pick out two or three examples of similes and/or
metaphors and in a paragraph discuss how they are used.
12) Given a quotation identify the speaker.
13) Write an essay on Catcher in the Rye.
Catcher in the Rye: Study Guide
Be able to explain
the following themes and give examples of three scenes that fit each theme:
Loss of Innocence
Rebellion From Society
Mental Instability
Death
Hypocrisy
Sexual Confusion
Be able to explain
the following symbols – what they represent and why they are important:
Allie’s Baseball
Glove
Holden’s Red Hunting
Cap
The Duck Pond
The Carrousel
Holden Caulfield’s
name
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The title
List and explain five
allusions.
Explain the major
conflict.
List the point of
view.
Discuss how Holden is
an unreliable narrator.
Discuss how Holden in
an anti-hero.
Discuss how Catcher
in the Rye is a Bildungsroman novel.
Pick out and explain
three ironies.
Discuss Holden’s
character development.
Outline the plot.
Briefly discuss
Holden’s relationship with girls (Jane, Sally, Sunny, Bernice, Marty, Larverne,
Faith Cavendish, Mrs. Morrow)
Discuss the importance
of the following characters:
Achey
Stradlater
Horwitz
Ernie
D.B.
Phoebe
Allie
Maurice
Carl Luce
Lillian Simmons
Mr. Antolini
Mr. Spencer
List some schools
that Holden got kicked out or (or left).
Given a quotation be
able to identify the speaker
Compare Holden
Caulfield to Scout Finch.
NEW VOCABULARY
1)
Ostracize
2)
Nonchalant
3)
Grippe
4)
Blasé
5)
Incognito
6)
Pedagogical
7)
Bourgeois
8)
Convent
9)
Halitosis
10)
Stenographer
11)
Boisterous
