Lesson 36

Students began the class by reading their personal novels.

We discussed a few student questions, looked at the story of Joyce Echaquan's death, and  briefly touched on the racist land covenants connected to the history of the North Shore.

Students went back into the text and began taking key notes on setting - ultimately, they will find at least three (hopefully more) for each of the time periods that our characters come from (1500's, 1980's, and 2090's) that cover all of what setting is about --> Time/Place/Society/Tone/Mood/Feeling -- These quotations can describe the space, but they can also be bits of conversations that reveal things about the setting. Quotes are to be written down with page numbers - and a note of the speaker and the time period represented. 

We will continue notes as we go - they are essential to future work.

We did more reading of the play - Just a few pages up to 45.


 


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