1. Novels 12 Warm-Up, Target, & Agenda Wednesday, September 3 rd

2. Today’s Targets Students will be able to illustrate ambiguity and apply it to English Students will be able to recall the Identity Book guidelines. Students will be able to construct a 10-question survey for themselves using open-ended and personal questions. Warm-Up 1.At first glance, what do you see? 2.How does this image illustrate the concept, ambiguity?

3. Ambiguity is an optical illusion embedded in a text or spoken word.

4. Ambiguity (…and the headless Frenchman) “English, it has been observed, is unusually rich in ambiguity, and English literature is all the better for it. One reason that French is the preferred language of diplomacy is because it is inherently unambiguous, the least prone to ‘double entendre’. Picture a Frenchman leaning towards an open train window, unaware that a tunnel is coming up. ‘Look out!’ warns the Englishman alongside him. The Frenchman duly looks out and gets his head knocked off. The shouted instruction ‘Attention, monsieur!’ would forestall Gallic decapitation.” –John Sutherland

5. Ambiguity The presence of two or more possible meanings in a single passage. The English language is full of ambiguities, and literature is ambiguities raised to the highest degree. Literature is polyvalent; in other words, it has different meanings to different people or different meanings to the same people but at different times. “Lions for Lambs” clip Go Animate: Ambiguity

6. Today’s Agenda Discuss Robin Williams’10-Question Survey Complete 10-Question Challenge Meet in Writer’s Groups and discuss the 10- Question Challenge View Identity Book Assignment For homework, prepare to bring in any novel of your choice: “Fictional” piece At least 150 pages Writer’s Notebook due in class tomorrow Numbered and with tabs

7. Today’s Targets Students will be able to illustrate ambiguity and apply it to English Students will be able to recall the Identity Book guidelines. Students will be able to construct a 10-question survey for themselves using open-ended and personal questions.

8. Today’s Scale 4: Teach today’s target(s) to someone else. 3: Feel comfortable with today’s target(s), but not ready to teach someone else just yet. 2: Still have (a) question(s) about today’s target(s), and it/those is/are… 1: Feel lost and would like to meet on…