Portfolio/workshop

AGENDA:

Work on 20 page portfolio--DUE THURSDAY, April 12

WORKSHOP 2nd period!

Portfolio/Reyna Grande

AGENDA:

Work on fiction portfolio for marking period---20 pages.  Look over previous posts for more prompts.

Tomorrow, periods 3 and 4 go to Black Box for Reyna Grande master class regarding The Distance Between Us

Portfolio Prep/Workshop

AGENDA:

Work on portfolio for marking period

Workshop Period 2

Workshop Packet #2

AGENDA:

Workshop Packet #2

I Stand Here Ironing/Tillie Olsen

AGENDA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillie_Olsen

READ:   "I Stand Here Ironing"

Think, Pair, Share:  With a partner, answer the following questions--

“I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen

(used in 1992 as AP prose essay prompt)

Short Story Analysis

Answer the questions as specifically as possible with textual references, but do so quickly.

1. Who is the “you” in the first sentence?

2. Is the narrator static or dynamic? Justify with a quotation from the beginning and one from the end, and label her state in each one.

3. Define the ongoing (including the current) external conflict between mother and daughter. Use specific terms

4. Define the mother’s internal conflict (how she is conflicted with herself).

5. The narrator refers to “all that life that has happened outside me, beyond me.” What factors beyond her control have affected her relationship with her daughter? In a brief list, identify five economic, personal, and/or historical factors (note their effects only if necessary for clarity.

6. Identify three factors/circumstances within her control for which the mother seems to be willing to take blame and accept as her mistakes (use 3 quotes). (Form: “She takes the blame for X when she states, “[quotation].”)

7. Analyze the summary paragraph (the penultimate one) that begins “I will never total it all.” Why does the narrator say this equation would not be an adequate explanation of Emily’s character? Does this seem like excuse making on her part for her daughter’s trouble? (Form: three or more analytical sentences)

8. Consider the “help” Emily receives at the convalescent home: how does it connect to or influence the mother’s statement “Let her be,” at the end?

9. In what way does the story’s final paragraph express the narrator’s feeling of resignation (acceptance)? In what way does it express an affirmation (approval)? (use quotations)

10. Explain the “ironing” metaphor by showing its relevance to:
1. The mother’s wish for her daughter
2. The mother’s view of her own life

11. Write a theme statement for this story.

“I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen

Theme Statement

When a reflective and self-aware mother who has raised a family through difficult personal, economic, and social circumstances comes in conflict with someone who wants to give her advice concerning her child’s teenage difficulties in a situation in which the mother is suspicious of outside interference, the result may be that the mother reflects on her strengths and weaknesses as a parent, both “what should have been and what (could) not be helped,” and rejects the outside interference but hopes for her child to have more control over her life than the mother felt she had over her own.

Writing Portfolio/New Writing Prompts

AGENDA:

Work on your writing portfolio (20 pages) and missing work.

If time allows, we will workshop.

Check out this website for prompts and more:

http://www.creative-writing-now.com/fiction-writing-prompts.html

http://www.creative-writing-now.com/short-story-ideas.html

Boys and Girls/Alice Munro

AGENDA:

Read and discuss "Boys and Girls" bu Alice Munro


"Boys and Girls" is a short story by Canadian author Alice Munro that first appeared in Dance of the Happy Shades, a collection of fifteen short stories by Munro published in 1968 by Ryerson Press.Discussion Questions "Boys and Girls"

1. Who is the narrator? What perspective does she have on the events in the story?

2. Where and when does the story take place?

3. What roles are assigned to men and to women in the world of this story? How do the mother, the father, Henry Bailey, the narrator, and her brother Laird exemplify aspects of these masculine and feminine roles?

4. What people and things represent freedom in this story? What people and things are not “free”?

5. What do you see as the primary conflict in the story; in other words, what does the dramatic tension come from?

6. What do you see as the turning point in the story?

7. What changes occur in the course of the story --to the girl, to her fantasies, to her relationship with Laird and her father?

8. The phrase “only a girl” is used in two different situations. What meaning does the phrase have for the girl in each situation? How does it contribute to the overall meaning of the story?

9. This sort of story is called a “coming of age” or “initiation” story. Why do you think that is? What is the girl “initiated” into? Of what does she become aware?

10. In “Boys and Girls”, what does the girl gain? What does she lose? Do you think what she becomes reflects nature or nurture? Do you see these changes and losses as necessary?

  

Amy Hempel's In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried

http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/view/11796

https://prezi.com/yxczzpzpnzrs/annotations-of-in-the-cemetery-where-al-jolson-is-buried/