We are looking at two Native American works today: The Navajo creation legend and The Walum Olum. Make sure you get copies if you are absent.
Reminder that vocabulary 1 is due a week from today. You may, of course, turn it in early. Please see me, if you are having difficulties
On Monday you are writing your critical lens on the two summer reading books. Come prepared with your genre, title and author. The following is a copy of the model passed out in class.
As (insert the author’s name or write as someone once said if you do not know the author’s name) once said, “ (insert quote). In other words (this is where you paraphrase the quote.) Use words that are not part of the quote. You may write two to three sentences. This is supported in the (insert first genre: novel, autobiography, play, memoir, epic poem) (insert first title) by (insert author) and the (insert second genre) (insert second title) by (insert second author) through the literary elements of (choose two:character, plot, setting, theme, tone).
Paragraph 2: support the above with book 1
Give two detailed, specific examples
Paragraph 3: support the above with book 2
Give two detailed, specific examples.
Conclusion: do not repeat the quote, but make a general, universal statement that ties the two books into the writer’s words.
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