Absent 3/15?

We're still in different places because of the MSA schedule. Find your period below.

Period 4- Read through chapter 9 of NLFD. In groups we examined the conundrums for chapters 5&6. We will have presentations of the other questions next class. Please spend some time with the following questions:

Ch 5- Only being 7 or 8 years old, why was Fredrick so happy to be leaving the plantation and going to Baltimore?

Ch 6- Why does Fredrick relate the story of the slaves Henrietta and Mary to his readers?

Ch6- Why does Fredrick call Mr. Auld's forbidding his learning to read "invaluable instruction," and according to both Fredrick and Mr. Auld, why does inability to read keep men enslaved?



Period 6-
Your classmates retold the Native American myths you read last time to their groups. Based on the four tales, they groups decided what they thought was important about myths in terms of content, organization, and tone/voice. After spending some time discussing this as a group, we came together as a class and decided on a class rubric for the weather myth project. Here it is:

Myth Rubric


Content (4/6) 15 points :

Repetition (3)
Personification-not just animals but weather, objects, and gods too
Characters- innocent youth, wise, some make obstacles for main characters, common stock, single dimensional characters etc.(undefined; not developed) *
Magical/ supernatural
Express societal values

Organization 5 points:

• Problem (towards beginning, single and simple) and solution
• short exposition
• relatively short and simple (2-3 pages double spaced)

Voice
Third person omniscient
No value judgements in narration
Simple tone

We also applied these to your own work.