Day One: Trueblood, the Golden Day, Norton and Bledsoe

Unit One: What is a story? Invisible Man Week One Notes

Warm Up: Summarize the events of Chapter 2-4 in at least four sentences. You may use your book to help you.

DIRECTIONS: In the white space around this image, write down your reactions. What do you think is happening in this statue? What might be the context? Unit One: What is a story? Invisible Man Week One Notes

Discussion Questions:

1) Examine the quote on page 36 regarding the “veil.” Explain the quote and its significance to this section of the text. Unit One: What is a story? Invisible Man Week One Notes

2) What does Norton mean when he tells the narrator “you are my fate, young man,” (42). Discuss the position that this places the narrator in.

3) What does Trueblood represent? What is significant about this chance meeting?

4) Discuss the incident of Norton entering the Golden Day. What is significant about its name?

Explain Dr. Bledsoe’s reasoning behind removing the narrator from the school. Evaluate this choice from your personal perspective. Unit One: What is a story? Invisible Man Week One Notes

Day Two: The Irony of North-ness Unit One: What is a story? Invisible Man Week One Notes

DIRECTIONS: Answer these questions in 1-2 complete sentences.

1) What is setting?

2) Why do you think setting is important to a text?

Ways that Setting Makes Meaning in a Text Function Example

“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.” (The Fall of the House of Usher) “Small trees were plantd in the yards of a few of these houses, and one tree, weak, a scratch of light against the gray of everything else, tossed in a film of blossoms. Mary trudged solidly forward, hardly glancing at it, but Karl stopped. The tree drew him with its delicate perfume. His cheeks went pink, he stretched his arms out like a sleepwalker, and in one long transfixed motion, he floated to the tree and buried his fact in the white petals.” (The Beet Queen)

Pi’s lifeboat

“And then the summer was over” (The Flowers)

“When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant—a combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least ten years… we all said, ‘She will kill herself’; and we said it would be the best thing.” (A Rose for Emily)

When reading for setting, keep your eye out for the following… Unit One: What is a story? Invisible Man Week One Notes Unit One: What is a story? Invisible Man Week One Notes

WRITING TASK: Explain the significance of the narrator’s journey north. Draw your response from specific textual references.

Invisible Man Timed Writing

DESCRIPTION: You will have 50 minutes to complete a timed writing, analyzing the following topic in a 2-3 page handwritten essay. You may use your text and your TRRICEPPSSS one- pager. You will be graded on the rubric on the back of this page.

Topic: In chapter 8 and 9, the narrator delivers six letters to prospective employers. Unfortunately, this goal is trumped by Dr. Bledsoe’s trickery. Explain the symbolism of the letters in these two chapters and what the narrator learns about himself through them. Unit One: What is a story? Invisible Man Week One Notes

TSCS Extended Writing Rubric 11-12 9-8--Essay offers a persuasive response to the prompt, demonstrating a thorough understanding of the meaning of the work as a whole by referencing specific and apt textual support. Essays may not be error-free, but make a strong case for their interpretation and discuss the prompt with significant insight and understanding, effectively clarifying relationships among ideas and concepts. Responses demonstrate a sophisticated command of grade- level grammar and language. Essays scored a 9 reveal a more sophisticated analysis and more effective control of language than do essays scored an 8.

7-6--Essay offers a reasonable claim in response to the prompt, providing an adequate and accurate analysis, clarifying most relationships among ideas and concepts. While this essay demonstrates insight and understanding, the analysis is less thorough, less perceptive, or less specific in supporting detail than that of the essay scored a 5. The essay demonstrates consistent command of grade-level conventions of standard written English. Essays scored a 7 present better-developed analysis and more consistent command of the elements of effective composition than do essays scored a 6.

5--Essay offers a relevant but likely, obvious claim that responds to the prompt, demonstrating an attempt to clarify relationships among ideas and concepts, but there are lapses in focus. The essay may rely more on summary that contains some analysis. Evidence loosely ties to the argument, but demonstrates a rather simplistic understanding of the prompt. The essay demonstrates a somewhat consistent command of grade-level conventions, but surface errors do not interfere the reader’s comprehension. Unit One: What is a story? Invisible Man Week One Notes

4-3--Essay offers a limited or uneven claim that demonstrates a misreading of the prompt or offers summary of the passage, with no analysis demonstrated. The evidence may be partial, unsupported, or unconvincing. Inconsistent control of grade-level conventions challenges the reader’s comprehension at times. Essays scored a 3 may contain a significant misreading, demonstrate inept writing, or both.

2-1--Essay makes an attempt to answer the prompt but is unacceptably brief. The essay provides no opportunity for actionable feedback. Essays scored a 1 contain little coherent discussion of the text. REDO NECESSARY.

ACTIONABLE FEEDBACK

Day Four: Peer Feedback

Warm Up:

1) How confident did you feel about your writing piece from yesterday? Explain your answer.

2) What score do you think you earned? Use language specific to the rubric to explain your answer.

3) What specific way could you improve this writing piece? Unit One: What is a story? Invisible Man Week One Notes

Writing Norms

Write down 3-5 norms that you would like to create for you and your partner. Unit One: What is a story? Invisible Man Week One Notes

Questions for Peer Feedback:

1) What is the author’s main argument? Is it clear? How could the writer make his or her thesis more clear?

2) What claims does the writer make to uphold the thesis? Is each clear?

3) Give the writer feedback on his or her organization and transitions between ideas. Unit One: What is a story? Invisible Man Week One Notes

4) Did the writer use the best pieces of evidence from the text? Were their key pieces of evidence that were missed that could have made their argument stronger?

5) Discuss the highlights from the writer’s paper. What were you interested in? What do you want to hear more about?