agenda | 2 june 2009

Agenda:

• Attendance Quiz
• Defining Literary Terms: Character and Point of View
• Discuss character and point of view in "The Management of Grief" and "The Lottery" in groups and as a whole class
  

Discussion Questions:

• Who are the main characters in each story? Which ones are round (more complex)? And which are flat (more simple)?
  
• What character traits are clear in the different figures in each story? How does each function within the story?
  
• What strategies does each author use for characterization in each story? Does she mostly tell us about the characters? Or do we learn about them through the events in the story?
• In what ways can we identify with the characters in each story? How does the point of view impact the way we relate to the characters?
  
• What is the point of view for each story? How would each story change if it were told from a different point of view?
• How does our reading of these stories in 2009 differ from when the stories were first published? ("The Lottery" in 1948 and "The Management of Grief" in 1988)
  

Homework due 6/3:

• Read "A Rose for Emily" and "Hills Like White Elephants" (focus on setting and plot/conflict)
  
• Blog about one or more of the discussion questions