Lit1015 1019
Lit1015 1019
Lit1015 1019
Assessment (How will you monitor progress and know students have successfully met outcomes?) Daily: writing/direct observation This Week: writing/direct observation/artistic project Unit: writing/direct observation/artistic project
Time allotted MONDAY Learning TargetStudents will learn about the unconventional use of grammar, syntax and writing style to create mood in literature. Students will develop their skills in writing, including spelling, grammar, style and literary analysis. They will demonstrate their learning through a week-long group project involving multiple writing assignments and an
artistic project. The following work will be undertaken in groups of no more than four and no fewer than two. We will work on this project in class, but inevitably you will need to do some of the work at home. Each group member is expected to contribute to every aspect of the project (in other words, you cant make one person do all the writing while someone else does the art work). You will be expected to assign duties to your group members and monitor your own progress. All work will be due Friday, 10/18. The assignments are as follows: 1. The Boys Diary: Based on actual scenes from the book, you will complete five entries in an imaginary diary from the boys perspective. What is he feeling? What is he thinking? What are his aspirations? His hopes? How does he feel about his father? How does he feel about what is going on around him? Each diary entry should be at least one paragraph in length. Feel free to be artistic with this (writing on a dirty, wrinkled piece of paper, as he might have to, for instance). 2. The Mans Diary: Do the same as above, but for the man. 3. Your Diary: Imagine yourselves (your group) transported to the world of The Road. Generate a diary similar to the ones described above, but chronicling the events, adventures, mishaps and cannibalistic encounters your group undergoes in the fear-ridden, postapocalyptic world of The Road. 4. Poster: Generate a poster/art piece that depicts the most relevant themes and events in the book so far. The format and medium are up to you. Just make them beautiful (as much as you can make events from this book beautiful) so I can hang them up in the classroom with pride. 5. Style Analysis: You will generate a written analysis of the writing style employed in The Road. McCarthy uses (and abuses) the
rules of grammar in very interesting ways. Describe the way he manipulates syntax, quotation marks (lack of them), apostrophes (sometimes a lack of them) and other literary conventions to create a particular mood. Be as detailed and specific as possible. This aspect of the assignment should be a minimum of five paragraphs, but could certainly be more.
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