11/1/17

Today was November first and our objectives for the class were to apply close reading skills to identify significant evidence from a text and to develop a meaningful conversation about specific evidence in a narrative. To start off the class we were asked to answer the question of how a novel is different from a essay, memoir and play. We first described which each of those are. A essay is to to inform about a certain topic, a memoir is non-fiction, and a play is to be performed and there is an audience. After that we moved onto the next thing which was to read the first page of the book and we were to find characterization and conflict. For characterization we found that they were very educated men(both went to Yale). We can also imply that the son did not work as hard as the father because he was born into the family which is wealthy and has connections. For conflict we found people are not born equally so judging off of that is wrong. The two men in the book are very educated and they realized that they can not judge the lower class people because that would be morally wrong. Then from each group we picked a MVP and that person went to the middle table and began to have a discussion about what they found in the book. Mr. Rivers was drawing something on the board as they were discussing.