November
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ELA 20: Nov 19 Key Chapter 25, novel themes, and discussion of chapter questions…
- Students began class by copying a bit of information from the board about the key parts of Chapter 25. The also copied down eleven possible themes that can be found in the novel and we discussed each and several examples of how they applied were given. This will be a potential exam question, to explain how any number of them apply to this novel study with examples given as evidence.
- We then moved on to a somewhat rushed discussion of a select few questions from the given chapter questions. Some of the questions we simply orally discussed while other questions we considered more thoroughly and students wrote their responses down. We have just a few to discuss at the beginning of tomorrow’s class and then students will begin writing their essay to complete this novel study.
- For homework, and in anticipation for their essay writing tomorrow, students had to choose one of the major characters, either Scout, Jem, Dill, or Boo, and show, citing evidence from the novel, how that particular character matured somehow within themselves throughout the novel. We will have a greater discussion of it tomorrow in class.