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Discuss midterm and continuation of grammar work--sentence composing
All Sokol and Gannon entries due! Sign sheet for credit if you have submitted Sokol and Gannon entries
WRITING: Continue working on Qualities vignettes for publication
. Each student will submit 2 pages with a design.
READING: AGE OF MIRACLES. Read to pg. for Monday discussion. Yes, you have me for a new class on Monday---Writing for Self-Discovery
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Montana 1948 Readings/Natalie Goldberg Test 1 "I remember" Marcy Gamzon • Sep 21 (Edited Sep 21) 100 points Due Tomorrow AGENDA:...
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AGENDA 1, For classwork credit: Read the following two stories by Sandra Cisneros. Then discuss the questions for Barbie-Q with a p...
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In James Longenbach’s “The Art of the Poetic Line,” he mentions three kinds of line endings: End stopped lines end with punctuation, as ...
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Choose ONE of the following topics and discuss it in a well-developed essay. You may use your book to provide text-based details. Post yo...
How would the novel have been different if the story had been told by Julia’s mother or father, for example?
ReplyDeleteThe story would have been different, because instead of it being a coming of age story, it would have been from the perspective of an adult, and the character’s conflicts would be from an adult’s standpoint.
How do different characters react to information they receive from news and other public sources?
Some characters worry or panic, for fear that the world is dissolving into chaos, while others try to accept the slowing as the new way that life is supposed to be lived. People like Julia’s mom worried, and, as a result, she and others who worried like her, came down with gravity sickness. Then there were people like Sylvia, who were real timers. The real timers believed that there was no need to worry, and all they had to do was adapt to the slowing and let it become the new way of life.
Alexander Christie, Carina Giannini, Sara Rule
ReplyDeleteHow would the narration, or even the novel, have been different if the narration was from the perspective of an 11 year old?
The narration would be different because it would lack all foreshadowing which is widely used in the book. There would be many times where you were unknowing because the 11 year old would be unsure of what was to come.
How would the novel have been different if the story had been told by Julia’s mother or father, for example?
If Julia’s mother were to be the narrator, it would be different because she is more worried and frantic when she finds out about the slowing. The story may have been more fast paced and less detailed. She would be stuck in her thoughts.
If it were her father, it would have been calmer and more about what he was doing. It would have been more of a documentation. I think it would have been less centered on the slowing and more on his wife and his affair with Sylvia.
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ReplyDeleteSammy Nasario, Serita McKenzie, & Kyra Majewski
ReplyDeleteHow would the novel have been different if the story had been told by Julia’s mother or father, for example?
The story would have been different because it would no longer be a bildungsroman. It wouldn’t have shown Julia’s growth as a person as events occurred that changed her. It would’ve been told from an adult’s point of view and the troubles would be seen from an adult perspective.
How do different characters react to information they receive from news and other public sources?
Some of the characters fell into immediate panic, fearing chaos and destruction. They need order, they followed the clock. Others thought it was meant to happen, and everything happens for a reason. They were relaxed and followed the earth, the real time.
1. How does the epigraph (taken from James Richardson’s poem “Another End of the World”) set the tone for the book?
ReplyDeleteThe use of the epigraph from James Richardson’s poem set the tone for the book by giving the reader an idea of the plot of the story. It also gives the reader away the theme of the book.
2. How does the author inform the reader about the initial setting of the narrative?
The author inform the reader about the initial setting of the narrative by using first person. Also by the use of retrospective thoughts as known as flashbacks in the book.
Ellie Sklair, Jocelyn Brillian
ReplyDeleteIf the book had been narrated by her parents it would lack a child's perspective. It wouldn't have the same train of thought that a teenager would think. This book wouldn't be a coming of age book like how Julia is growing up in this strange predicament.
If the book was in a 11 years olds point of view it would make them less mature and they would be less likely to understand the importance of what was happening.
Yanira Rosario
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What are the multiple meanings of the title of the book?
- Maybe it means how things will change and become something we would’ve never imagined.
Discuss the authors writing style
- Anaphora, similes, and she’s repetitive
Tamaron McKnight, Bella Watts, and Karina Le
ReplyDelete• What are the multiple meanings of the title of the book?
With the title The Age of Miracles the author implies that the impossible is happening during the main character’s life.
• How does the epigraph (taken from James Richardson’s poem “Another End of the World”) set the tone for the book?
It introduces the topic and the genre of the book.
1. How does the author inform the reader about the initial setting of the narrative?
ReplyDeleteThe author uses first person and flash backs.
2. How does the epigraph set the tone for the book?
It gives away the theme on what the story would be like.
Emily Boorom, Alexis Jackson
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Q: Why is the story set in present day instead of in the future?
A: The story is set in the present because it helps readers relate to the character and says how the anything can happen at any time and not just in the future which build suspense.
Q: How is science represented?
A: Science is represented in “The Age of Miracles” because the novel talks about the destruction of the O-zone layer (the slowing) and talks about the effects it has on the world.