Class Outline: Wednesday

1. Silent Reading: Catch up on Resilience Readers, Chains 1-5, silent reading or study vocabulary. Please don't read Chains 6 yet.
2. Vocabulary Quiz
3. Time to work on paragraph for Chapter 5 and complete all the questions for up to 5. Chapter 1-5 questions are due at the end of class. 
4. Copy out vocab for Chapter 6.
5. Based on the vocab, predict what you think will happen in Chapter 6. 
6. Class reads Chapter 6 (for homework if not done)

Homework for Tuesday May 13

For Tuesday, you should have done all the questions and definitions for Chapter I-IV in Chains. We will have a vocabulary quiz after Chapter 5.

Characterization

Characterization

Characterization is the process by which the writer reveals the personality traits of a
character. Characterization is revealed through direct characterization and indirect
characterization.

Direct Characterization tells the audience what the personality of the character is (his or her trait).

• Example: “The patient boy and quiet girl were both well mannered and did not disobey their mother.” Explanation: The author is directly telling the audience the personality of these two children. The boy is “patient” and the girl is “quiet.”

Indirect Characterization shows things that reveal the personality of a character. There
are five different methods of indirect characterization:

Speech: What does the character say? How does the character speak?
Thoughts: What is revealed through the character’s private thoughts and feelings?
Effect on others: What is revealed through the character’s effect on other people? How do other characters
          feel or behave in reaction to the character?
Actions: What does the character do? How does the character behave?
Looks: What does the character look like? How does the character dress?(from Read, Write, Think)

Poem About Slavery

Now that we have read up to Chapter 3 in Chains, we will look at a poem about slavery.

"The Slave Auction" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177157)

This is the biography of the writer: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/frances-ellen-watkins-harper#poet

As you read the poem, write down your inferences about slavery next to each stanza that may apply to Chains.

Chains

We are done our work on the French Revolution and English Civil War and are moving on the resilience through the lens of the novel Chains!

Yesterday, we started off by rating our feelings about various themes in the novel. Now, we are getting into the story itself.

For each chapter, we will begin by defining key terms before we read. Each student now has a duo-tang with the words for each chapter. Please fill it out with the definitions before we read that chapter.

Each student was also sent questions for Chapter 1-5. These are in your Humanities folder. After we read each chapter, you will have time to complete the questions. There will also be activities and connected texts at various chapters throughout.