Objectives: Students will evaluate how an author’s background shapes the content, including character development, themes, setting, and mood. Also, students will evaluate the novel and the Psych Central article to find relevant facts, quotations, and symptoms to support the argument that the main character suffers from depression. The reason for selecting evidence and facts to support specific symptoms of depression will be explained in each body paragraph.
SWBAT:
Students will
use visual aids and an informational text to learn and understand how an
author’s personality influences his work.
Also, students will continue to analyze the novel and an informational
text to develop arguments that use concrete details, quotations, and relevant
facts. Students will also be able to
integrate transitions into their written work.
DO NOW:
Who is J.D. Salinger?
Read the J.D. Salinger bio and circle 1-2 pieces of information in ONLY the first FOUR PARAGRAPHS.
Next,
Watch the video from NBC's Nightly News.
While watching the video, write down two facts on the back of the Do Now that you find interesting (other than that he is an author).
Exit pass:
· If you were at
a business event and people started talking about Salinger, what is something
you could discuss about him (aside from him being an author) with them?
At a business meeting, my colleagues were discussing J.D. Salinger, the author of Catcher in the Rye, and I told them that he...
Homework: Finish the rough drafts of the 1st and 2nd body paragraphs.
