Weekend work

Schema: SAT and quiz on xenia

Lesson: We followed up on our recent sentence fragment and run on sentence study by correcting real life sentences found in student papers. I was pleased with how adept most of you were at this task. As Emily stated, the issue is not your ability to edit, it is the fact that most students do not allocate enough time to edit properly. Nice job by many in A Block for good work on this assessment. C Block also did a great job with sentence revision.

We discussed the different characters in “A Jury of Her Peer.” Even though they are not present in the house during the story, we know a lot about Mr. and Mrs. Wright. One could argue that Minnie Wright, nee Foster, is the central character, even though we don’t meet her. Please note the use of direct and indirect characterization to develop the characters. Mrs. Hale and Peters are our primary source of information about Mrs. Wright; this is direct characterization. The state of her house, cloths, and the canary are forms of indirect characterization.

Homework: What is the point of view of “A Jury of Her Peers?” Identify examples of direct and indirect characterization. Explain whether setting is important to the story. Please type your response and email to me on Monday

Be prepared for a quiz on plot elements and story elements.