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This is a place for us to discuss openly and honestly the literature we are reading. Here we are all just communicating our thoughts on what we are reading. There are no right and wrong answers. However, you are expected to be polite, mature, and on topic.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Last Chance for Summer Extra Credit


This summer each of you read your own selection. Here is your chance to tell me something about the book you read and share your novel with others in the class. Select a passage from the novel of at least 20 lines. Type it on a sheet of paper. Print a clean copy of passage to give me on the first day of class. Then on a second copy of that passage, go through the passage underlining and highlighting key words or phrases that you believe helped to develop the tone of this passage. Write a 200-400 word explanation of how the author developed tone in this passage. Make sure you specifically identify the overall tone of the passage and explain how these words, figures of speech, phrases, etc., help develop that tone. Please double space. (Due on the first day of school) Blog spot extra credit right now: Select a short passage, perhaps 3-6 lines from your independent novel reading that you would like to share with us. Write the passage and tell how/why it appealed to you. Make sure you give the title and author. (This blog extra credit expires at midnight on August 4th.)

1 comment:

Ginny said...

I read The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty.

“"Never mind," said Laurel, laying the breadboard down on the table where it belonged. “I think I can get along without that too.” Memory lived not in initial possession but in the freed hands, pardoned and freed and in the heart that can empty but fill again, in the patterns restored by dreams.” In this passage, Laurel comes to understand that she does not need objects to remember her late father, mother, and husband. Her memories were attached to these objects, but not lost as she left the object behind in her childhood home. This passage reminded me of how Hurricane Katrina devastated many people of the Gulf Coast. They lost items that held memories, but they did not have to attain the items to keep their precious memories. Just as Laurel, these brave people are determined to refill their lives with new memories.