English I - ELL Week 3

knoxschools.org/kcsathome English I, Week 3 The Power of the Omniscient Narrator

Week 3 Task 1: Activity 4.7 p. 479-482 (~50 min) • Complete the “Opening Writing Prompt” on p. 479 (5 min) • Read the “About the Author” on p. 479 (2-3 min)- Useconduct Google on theto find spot more research information to and learn more about Anthony Doerr • Using the “As You Read” prompt on p. 479, read Allfrom The All Light the Light We Cannotwe Cannot See on p. 480 (10 min) • Complete the “Making Observations” box on p. 480 (5 min). • Complete the “Working with the Text” graphic organizer on p. 481 (15 min). • Answer the questions for “Check Your Understanding” & “Appreciating the Power of the Omniscient Narrator” p. 482. (10 min)

Week 3 Task 2: Activity 4.8 p. 483-489 (~45 min) • Read the excerptsection from All the Light We Cannot See on p. 483 and answer the opening writing prompt on p.483 (10 min). • Using the “As You Read” prompt on p. 484, read the novel excerpt from All the Light we Cannot See on p. 485-487 (15 min) • Answer the two “Making Observation” Questions on p. 487 (5 min) • Complete the “Working with the Text” graphic organizer on p. 488 (15 min) • Complete the “Appreciating the Author’s Craft” & “Check your Understanding” questions on p. 489 (10 min)

Week 3 Task 3: Activity 4.9 p. 490-491 (~30 min) • Read “Writing to Sources: Informational Text” prompt on p. 490 (5 min) • Using the “Writing to Sources: Informational Text” prompt, complete the “Writing a Character Analysis Paragraph” p. 491 (25 min)

the sentence)orlookingthemupinadictionaryinternet. Circle wordsthatyoudonotknow.Trylookingatcontextclues(otherin Underline partsthattellyouwhenandwherethenoveltakesplace. Academy inRome. Rome PrizefromtheAmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters andtheAmerican received multipleawardsforhiswork,includingthePulitzer Prizeandthe from theregion.Heisauthorofbothshortstoriesand novels,andhehas as wellfrommusicalcompositionsbyClaudeDebussy, afamouscomposer About theAuthor by usingcontextclues,wordparts,oradictionary. Circle unfamiliarwordsorphrases.Trytodeterminethemeaningof Underline cluestothenovel’ssettingandhistoricalcontext. previous activity. Then answer the following question. following the answer Then activity. previous See of opening the from paragraphs two first the Read We Cannot See We Cannot of beginning the from excerpt an read will you activity, this In Preview Learning Targets • • •

Visualize thesettingofanovel. Conduct researchtoexaminethesettingofanovel. Analyze thesettingofanovelbasedonitsopeningparagraphs. by Anthony Doerr, taking special notice of the words you sorted in the inthe sorted you words ofthe notice special taking Doerr, Anthony by surprise you? Explain your answer. your you? Explain surprise passage inthe words ofthese use Doerr’s about anything Does Opening WritingPrompt and then explore its setting and narrative perspective. narrative and setting its explore then and lookingatthewordsyoufoundandsortedin the museum,fromdozensofbooksonperiod, the areasinhabitedbyhischaracters,fromtripsto See example, whilewriting … theworldstartstoglowwithpertinence.”For those hoursbecomesrelevant[toyourwriting] everything youreadorhearseeoutsideof “When you’reworkinglotseveryday,almost or spentasignificantamountoftime.SaysDoerr, stories oftenaresetinplaceswherehehaslived Anthony Doerr(b.1973)isafictionwriterwhose how theauthoruseswordsyousorted a section , Doerrpulledinspirationfromdailywalksin All theLightWeCannot All the Light We Cannot We Cannot Light the All All the Light Light the All Unit 4 My Predicting Graphic Organizer Close Reading

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Discuss the following questions with your classmates. your with questions following the Discuss Appreciating thePowerofOmniscientNarrator opening. novel ofDoerr’s setting the about findings and assumptions your summarizes that sentence adetailed Write • • evidence ithappenedatthistime? Write asentencethattellswhenyouthinkthisstoryhappened.Whatisyour

need tocaptureandfromwhatperspectiveswouldyoufilmthem? opening paragraphsofDoerr’snovelinamovie.Whatvisualimageswouldyou Imagine youareafilmmakerwhoistryingtodecidehowbestrepresentthe tell astoryin?Why?(lookatthepinkvocabularyboxifyouneedhelp) do? Doyougetalotofinformationoronlylittle?Isitthebestperspectiveto what doesthistellyouaboutallthethird-personomniscientnarratorcan Thinking abouthowyouwouldfilmtheopenerto"AllLightWeCannotSee", What woulditlooklike?pointofviewbefrom? Check YourUnderstanding

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In acorner of city, the narrow inside atall, house at Number 4rue Inside each airplane, abombardier through peers an aiming window and All the Light All We See Cannot All the Light We Cannot See We Cannot Light the All Understand theroleofanomniscientnarratorinanovel. Analyze charactersfromanovel. Saint-Malo differ? differ? Saint-Malo Opening WritingPrompt French walledcitydifferent? How arethetwoperspectivesorview-pointsof section f f f er row of mansions seaside studded with chimneys. A ve To sixseven. bombardiers, the city on walled the its nal abscessnal lanced to away. be , in which you are introduced to two of the ofthe to two introduced are you , inwhich f T oor, asightless sixteen-year-old named e Girl All the Light We Cannot See We Cannot Light the All , Unit 4 My Predicting Graphic Organizer Close Reading

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Aerial photographofSaint-Malo,aFrenchportinBrittany clues, wordparts,oradictionary. Circle unfamiliarwordsorphrases.Trytodeterminethe meaningofthewordsbyusingcontext Underline tellingdetailsaboutthecharactersofMarie-Laure andWerner. Circle wordsyoudonotknow.

whereas the bombardiers see Saint-Malo as Saint-Malo see bombardiers the whereas as to Saint-Malo see able is Marie-Laure Ironically, bombardiers andMarie-Laure.Usethesentenceframetohelpyou. Write asentenceexplaininghowthetwodepictionsofSaint-Maloservetocharacterize

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© 2021 College Board. All rights reserved. © 2021 College Board. All rights reserved. is crisp; it has not outside been long. and her runs tide, one block away and sixstories below, lapping at of base city the the walls. no clatter. No sirens. No on footfalls cobbles. the Not Just even gulls. ahigh becomes louder. nightthe is silent:dreadfully no engines, Otherwise, no voices, static. revolution of clock, the and whole the block is quiet, and she cannot sleep. she slept,while and has who not returned. And now it is night again, another her great-uncle Etienne, owns who house, this went who out previous the night eveningAll she marching has been her bathtub on third the with water. up, them Fill her great-uncle has taught her, whenever you can. staircase. “Rue desCordiers. Rue Jacques Cartier.” “Bastionsea. Hollande,” dela she and whispers, her She crowning ramparts, the drawing an uneven star shape around entire the model. nosmallest larger than apple dot tiny the seeds, public squares. reticulated jettyslender arcs wooden out Plage the from du called Môle; abeach adelicate, Saint-Malo, and row a T replicas of hundreds the of houses and shops and hotels within its walls. T Marie-Laure LeBlanc kneels over alow table covered entirely with amodel. Vauborel, on and sixth the highest by from Novel Cannot See 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 ere’s cathedral the with its perforated spire, and bulky the old Château de ise model aminiature of city the she kneels within, and contains scale Anthony Doerr

f nds opening the atop where walls the four ceremonial cannons point to She holds it to her nose. It smells of fresh Gasoline, ink. maybe. Something rattling so And something else. When she opens bedroom the window, noise the of airplanes the She can hear are bombers the they when away. three miles Amounting Her In acorner of room the stand two Marie-Laure her runs In acorner of city, the narrow inside atall, house at Number 4rue T e hum inside aseashell. All the Light All We f atrium vaults over market; seafood the minute benches, the ngers travel back to cathedral the spire. South to Gate the of Dinan. f ngers up slats the of right. the Asheet of paper has there. lodged f f oor too. Who knows water the when go out will again. er row of mansions seaside studded with chimneys. A f f ly, close. open le She the eases very ngertips along centimeter-wide the parapet f T oor, asightless sixteen-year-old named e Girl (Part 2)(Part f galvanized ngers around model, the waiting for buckets f ngers down walk alittle f lled to the rim to rim the lled f -hand shutter T e paper T e Unit 4 My galvanized: reticulated:

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485 My WORD CONNECTIONS 486 setting, whichisFrance. reminding themofthestory’s a particularway,whilealso Marie-Laure’s bedroomin word helpsreadersvisualize 1570. Thenarrator’suseofthis word thatfirstappearedin shelves,” comesfromaFrench large wardrobewithdoorsand The word Etymology diaphanous: staccato: 4.8

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armoire Notes delicate , meaning“a ® English LanguageArts hive. Werner’s favorites are into ivy-covered the carved oak; the fountain courtyard inthe is shaped like a straight from combs. pasturesthe outside Saint-Malo, scribbling innotebooks and eating honey homethe of awealthy privateer gave who up raiding ships to study in bees plunderers, raiders, seamen. admirals—and centuries inthe before windburned them, corsairs: killers, from republic—ministers the emissary and ministers vice and abbots and weekend holidays would aperitifs drink here, and before occasional the them commanding and views, alobby sea bow polishing its behind ties glasses bar. It o blue shutters on its and facade oysters on iceinits café and Breton waiters in light, rolls his blanket into his du “Get to cellar,” the over he calls his shoulder, and Werner switches on his hotel.in the Ofcourse. L’hôtel des Abeilles, Hotel the of Bees. of constructed newly shell crates; odor mothballed the of old bedspreads—he’s a purr. Fliestapping at afar-o private named Werner Pfennig wakes to afaint on bed. the baseboards. Her cane her stands big corner; inthe Braille novel waits facedown her,behind arranged seashells along top the of armoire, the pebbles along the men have tended to it way the worker might tend bees to aqueen. half-pound shells nine miles. aging high-velocity anti-air an 88 that guncalled can French balconies open directly onto ramparts, the has become home to an shells.with crates of artillery bed. overturned every fortress. Adetachment of Austrian anti-airmen window, has boarded up every abdomen, curls across ceiling. the bathtub, asingle nine-foot-long queen, with multiple eyesand agolden-furred droneslazy and workers with upper rooms, as big where bees as children

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Her Majesty, past the fourOver weeks, hotel the has become something a else: Before that, before it was ever ahotel at all, Not long so ago, Hotel the address, was acheerful with bright of Bees An anti-air corporal hurries down corridor, the heading for stairwell. the From direction the come of and sea the whistles booms; night.Still early. Still Where is he? Five streets to north, awhite-haired the eighteen-year-old German Marie-Laure hesitates at window the inher stocking feet, her bedroom

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© 2021 College Board. All rights reserved. © 2021 College Board. All rights reserved. “ Werner worries from that teeth the knock his sound the gums. will rattlesoot down chimney, the and of walls the hotel the toll likebell. astruck detonates athird time, and shatters glass somewhere by, close and torrents of hour, the survive will singing alove song to queen. their more than one. Maybe are they singing. Eight all Lu or away. three miles One of soldiers, the he realizes, is singing. Ormaybe it is recedingthe screams of shells hurtle both above as they already ocean, the two foundation, back up. then throws his arms over his ears. range, and it sounds as top ifthe of half hotel the has torn o inquicktwice succession. It’s the at her feet like o her oils, repainted her barrel, lubricated her they’ve wheels; arranged sandbags T 31 30 29 28 27 26 is he is asks. it?” “

Making Observations But is who there to answer? He drags open cellar the door and pauses amoment, vision swimming. Werner of chases beam the his Werner can hear Austrians the two Werner to halfway ground the is stairwell, inthe T • •

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her essence.Thenwritequotesfromthenovelthatsupportyouranalysisofeachcharacter. in thestorytosupportyourdescriptionsofcharacters. Complete thegraphicorganizerbelow.Whatarecharacterslike?Findquotes attention todetail. Examples: shepays

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© 2021 College Board. All rights reserved. © 2021 College Board. All rights reserved. about how an omniscient narrator can function inastory? function can narrator omniscient an how about show he does what “leaflet,” term ofthe inplace ofpaper” “sheet phrase the uses Doerr When classmates. your with questions following the Discuss Appreciating theAuthor’sCraft • •

finding it? Why doesDoerrdescribetheleafletasa“sheetofpaper”whenhetellsaboutMarie-Laure of paperhaslodgedthere.”Whatisthepaper?Howdoyouknow? close. Sheeasesopentheleft-handshutterandrunsherfingersupslatsofright.Asheet Think aboutthisquoteMarie-LaurefromDoerr’snovel:“Somethingrattlingsoftly,very Check YourUnderstanding Unit 4

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Notes ® Outlining andDrafting Writing anAnalysisofArgument: English LanguageArts Use the following single-paragraph outline to plan your character analysis. character your to plan outline single-paragraph following the Use Forming aSingle-ParagraphOutline 1. 3. 2. Be sure to: sure Be Reader/Writer inyour Notebook. paragraph analysis acharacter Write

• • • • • commentary. original own your includes that analysis and text the from quotes using paragraphs character-analysis two write and plan will you activity, this In Preview Learning Targets • • evidence you’vepresentedbacktotheclaim. Complete youroutlinebywritingaconcludingstatement thatrelatesthe analysis thattiesbacktoyourclaim. claim. Besuretoincludequotationsfromthenovel,aswell asyourown Develop thebodyofyourparagraphbygeneratingdetails thatsupportyour Marie-Laure’s orWerner’scharacter.

WritingtoSources:InformationalText to helpdraftanopeningsentenceforyourparagraph. Use yourcharactergraphicorganizerandanystorynotes same asyouropeningsentence. Have aclosingsentencethatrestatesyourclaimbutisnotthe character. Give evidenceandquotationstogivesupportyourclaimaboutthe Have anopening repeating it. Use quotationmarksaroundwordstakendirectlyfromthenovel. analyzing. Include atopicsentencethatmakesclaimaboutthecharacteryouare Werner from Choose asubjectforyourcharacteranalysis:eitherMarie-Laureor Draft acharacteranalysisparagraph. Create aplanforwritingcharacteranalysisparagraph. character. explanations togiveevidencesupportyourclaims about the Create yourbodysentences.Thesearethedirectquotations or

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© 2021 College Board. All rights reserved. © 2021 College Board. All rights reserved. first paragraphandwritethe secondonebelow. find supportingevidenceforyourclaimsaboutthecharacter. Followthewritingprocessfor Now, writeaparagraphforthecharacteryoudidnot originally choose.Makesuretogobackand Assess andReflect Writing aCharacterAnalysisParagraph C.S. 4. 3. 2. 1. T.S. Single-Paragraph Outline 4.

your claimwiththemostcompellingquotationsfromnovel,usequotationmarkscorrectly, if youneedextrahelp. marks aroundthingsyoutakedirectlyfromthestory.Lookbackatyourchartandnotes Use theoutlineabovetowriteyourfullparagraphbelow.Makesureincludequotation Unit 4

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