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** Teaching Points -- Personal Essay Unit **  ** Week One :** **Monday. 11/13/11:**  **Tuesday: 11/14/11:** **Wednesday: 11/15/11:** **Thursday: 11/16/11:** **Friday 11/17/11:** ** Week Two : **
 * Writers often collect anecdotes (small moments) that may suggest something important about us.
 * We may look over pieces we've written before and annotate those for possible ideas, issues, themes, emotional stress and traits. Then we may see some patterns or anomalies and write other moments that explore those
 * "Strong writers rehearse moments to identify issues, ideas or personality traits by using dialogue, imagery or inner thinking".
 * "Rewriting a moment with focus on the point of greatest tension".
 * Strong writers often do some reflective writing such as 'I want my essay to show...' and 'If I could get my reader to feel one thing about me, it would be...'
 * "Strong writers often seek parallel moments, such as ones that demonstrate similar psychological states or ones that show the same trouble or issue."
 * Structure of Essay -- Options:

**Teaching Points - CHARACTERIZATION UNIT **

10/11- Strong readers expect changes in characters & revisit old opinions about characters & their __character traits__ .

10/13- Strong readers pay attention to objects/ideas related to characters.

10/17- There are many possible ideas ( __themes__ ) in a story.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10/18- Strong readers use what they know about characters to develop a <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__theory__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">about a character **(shows how the character changed throughout the course of the book)**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10/20- Strong readers compare character traits to their own character traits.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10/25- Strong readers identify and explain the protagonist, antagonist, static character, dynamic character, and foil character.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10/27- Strong readers compare their own perspective to the character’s perspective.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10/31- Strong readers look for symbolism (they find objects that symbolize something meaningful.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11/2- Strong readers pay attention to points of foreshadowing that give hints or clues of something to come.