Good
morning, everyone.
We
will get started at 8:30
Al
Haley ahaley@vsb.bc.ca
Class
blog: haleyshec.blogspot.com
Wednesday
– IDIOM Hump Day
Wednesday-
middle of the week, low energy, tired
Thursday-
almost the weekend, feel excited
·
Begin “Penny in the Dust” discussion, individual
work
·
Grammar/sentence/vocab work
Thursday
·
Test4 – paragraph about “Penny in the Dust”
·
Listening exercise
·
Friday and Monday are holidays- Good Friday and Easter
Monday
Tuesday
·
Five-paragraph essay
·
First Nations module
Wednesday
·
Five-paragraph essay
·
First Nations module
Thursday
·
Final test
·
Review
Friday (final day)
·
Marks day
·
Final reports
How to Read A Story
My experience. My approach
Take some time. Defend some time. Put time aside to do the reading.
Turn off my phone. Find a quiet place, if possible. Help
yourself to focus, block out the distraction i.e. ear defenders, library, car,
etc.
Read the story twice.
1.
Armchair- relaxed, cup of tea
-read the whole story in one go, don’t break it up, “unity of effect”,
going to a movie theatre as opposed to watching Netflix
-reading for basic elements of the story: setting, major characters, narrator-
first person? third person?, milieu (overall situation)
-read for plot- plotline
Plotline: Exposition, Rising action, Climax, Falling action, Denouement
-basic understanding of the structure and elements in the story
NOTE: story is told first-person, Peter’s perspective
nevertheless, we learn about the father’s inner life through his actions,
indirect
2.
Desk- deeper reading – making notes, look for deeper
ideas- conflicts – person vs ?
- nice passages, beautiful writing
- symbols, similes, metaphors
- repeated phrases, repeated words
-irony
REPEATED ADVICE: Defend time to read the story in one
sitting without distractions. Turn off the phone. The phone is the enemy of
your concentration.
defend time – set aside a piece of time to read, focus on
one task
“Penny in the Dust” Notes
Exposition
-setting
time- penny
was valuable, used a wagon, cars (from 20-50s)
place- field, rural- farmland
-father working, animals, “brush”, “sun-still fields”(p1)
-major characters- boy
-
father
- personality traits son – childish, “imaginative”
- personality traits father – quiet, “inarticulate”,
taciturn, hardworking, competent, highly-skilled with his hands
INFER introverted, shy, hard to express his feelings
minor characters – mother
-
sister
MOVIE- flashback, recalling an earlier event, remembering
Rising action –
Source of the main conflict
*son’s description of father (last para p1) – having trouble
the adult son has describing his father to us – complex man- still waters run
deep
throught the narrator’s struggle to explain his father to
us, we come to understand how complex and deep the father is
‘reeling off’- talking quickly and freely
* “an articulate man a little at sea with an imaginative
child”
-narrator looking back on his childhood/father with the
understanding of an adult
page 135? “There’s no way you can tell it....” WHOLE
PARAGRAPH- fundamental to the story
P1&2 establish the story- setting, characters, conflict
***penny – catalyst of the conflict
Nice writing “time of magic suspension...” (p136-7)
suspense – different meaning
simile- “like a kitten curled up on my shoulder”
simile- comparison using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’
peaceful, magical, quiet, relaxed, timeless, content
-the penny was his whole world for those few minutes
-lost in his own world, in his world
-in a state of flow (modern phrase), focussed, out of time
Rising action “What made you come up here and hide?” (p3)
upset, distraught, emotional
safe space
Climax “I had to tell him the truth...”
-he can’t not say it anymore, he has to express his feelings
to his dad
--father listening, listening deeply, understanding his son’s
deep emotion
fantasy about the car, spending time together “laughin’ and
talkin’”
Denouement “Yesterday I knew”
penny – symbol – represents unspoken love between the father
and the son, reminds the father of the son’s story, emotion, the son’s dreams
of prosperity, son’s dreams of having a closer more pexressive realtiuonship
with the dad, dream of father being less busy, less work, means a lot to the
father, takes on whole other levels of meaning, closee connection, proud, pride
Do you have an object that you treasure?
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