Terrific Tuesday!  Please take the handouts from the table. Yes, there are a lot. Sorry in advance!  If you were absent yesterday, you have typed responses that were due yesterday. Please put in basket now.  Please get out Jane Eyre. We have much to cover today.

Homework:  Reading  Be read thru Chapter 17 for Thursday; answer lit circle questions 2, 3 6. TYPED!  Be thru Chapter 22 for Monday; answer lit circle questions 1-3. TYPED!  Writing  Close Reading Prose Analysis #1 due Thursday TYPED! See assignment sheet and Elements of Literary Style worksheet.  Test Prep  Study M/C selection for quiz Wednesday (tomorrow)! See Passage #3.

Close Reading Prose Analysis Portfolio  Heading for each assignment: Upper LEFT side of paper Caroline Benton AP English 12-5 Ms. Benton Due Date  Title should centered and should be “Close Reading #” and indicate what chapter and pages you are doing.  Example: Close Reading #1 Chp  I will not take late rough drafts. This will eventually be a summative

Prose Analysis  Look for patterns; don’t hyper focus. Unlike poetry, you need to look at the bigger picture first and figure out what techniques are creating this image and tone. What image and/or is being created and how? Why? (so what?)  You are still answering:  What is it? (Technique)  What is it doing and how?  Why is it important? What is trying to be accomplished? What is the purpose?  Techniques are a little different: see handout---

In class practice  Two passages: write a passage based on the one I assign you. Write ONE paragraph.  After reading the selection, decide on what idea you want to further pursue. If there are several ideas to pursue, pick one.  Then decide on a technique to focus on.  Then write your topic sentence.  Then write your paragraph to support your claim! CEW!

The Red Room  For example, the red room selection is about making the room seem sinister and creepy through the eyes of a young child. She feels trapped.  A technique I would pursue would be selection of detail and visual imagery.  Evidence would be from the selection

Here is my topic sentence: In this passage about the red room, Bronte uses vivid details to characterize the room as a prison and Jane its wrongfully imprisoned prisoner Here is my paragraph: Jane feels trapped in a gloomy and creepy chamber. Her selection of detail makes the room sound like it is straight from a gothic film: “the red-room was a spare chamber, very seldom slept in…the room was chill, because it seldom had a fire; it was silent” (8). These details paint a picture of a room that no one enters unless it is necessary. The silence is deafening and the “red-room” feels ominous. It is a lonely room that Jane gets locked into. It is cold and desolate, a forgotten room and she feels trapped and forgotten, too. Another interesting detail is her description of the “looking glass”: “All looked colder and darker…and the strange little figure there gazing at me with a white face…glittering eyes of fear…had the effect of a real spirit” (9). Jane is locked in this “red-room.” Her young imagination is running wild making ordinary things like the mirror seem scary and the object from which spirits look back at her. She is literally scared of her own reflection. Because she has been put in this room against her will, she feels this room is her prison, one she cannot escape even though she tries. The audience can feel her fear building as she moves around the room and we grow more sympathetic for her. These details paint a picture of a young girl who has no control of her situation.

Finished Product In this passage about the red room, Bronte uses vivid details to characterize the room as a prison and Jane its wrongfully imprisoned prisoner. Jane feels trapped in a gloomy and creepy chamber. Her selection of detail makes the room sound like it is straight from a gothic film: “the red-room was a spare chamber, very seldom slept in…the room was chill, because it seldom had a fire; it was silent” (8). These details paint a picture of a room that no one enters unless it is necessary. The silence is deafening and the “red-room” feels ominous. It is a lonely room that Jane gets locked into. It is cold and desolate, a forgotten room and she feels trapped and forgotten, too. Another interesting detail is her description of the “looking glass”: “All looked colder and darker…and the strange little figure there gazing at me with a white face…glittering eyes of fear…had the effect of a real spirit” (9). Jane is locked in this “red-room.” Her young imagination is running wild making ordinary things like the mirror seem scary and the object from which spirits look back at her. She is literally scared of her own reflection. Because she has been put in this room against her will, she feels this room is her prison, one she cannot escape even though she tries. The audience can feel her fear building as she moves around the room and we grow more sympathetic for her. These details paint a picture of a young girl who has no control of her situation.

Your Turn  Homework on handout  Due Thursday typed.  Rough draft due for feedback  I won’t take these late.