1. Glass Castle Day 3

2. Learning Target: Analyze characterization in The Glass Castle
Do Now: Reading Quiz

3. Tentative
“The wiener was hot, so Juju licked at it tentatively, but when I stood up and started stirring the hotdogs again, I felt a blaze of heat on my right side,” (Walls 9). Tentative- unsure, done without confidence, uncertain

4. Ambivalent
Jeannette feels ambivalent about her stay in the hospital. On one hand she has her own room and never goes hungry; the the other hand, she misses her family. Ambivalent-having two opposite feelings at the same time. A feeling of uncertainty.

5. Complete the STEAL organizer
In Groups
Pgs Every Now and then… (Rex Walls)
Pgs Rex Walls (Jeannette falls out of the car)
Pgs Christmas Planets
Pgs Rex Walls

6. AXES response
How does the author want the reader to feel about Rex Walls? What kind of person is he? Defend your answer

7. The Best Teacher I Ever Had
The best teacher I ever had was Mrs. Bass. She was nice and thought I was smart and so she let me get away with not doing my homework.

8. Mrs. Bass paced the room. Her thick bangs swept into her eyes as she read aloud from The Catcher in the Rye holding the book far too close to her face. In the back of the room near the radiator that thumped and hummed even the football players intently followed along, raising their hands to read passages aloud. I watched her move, awestruck. She was a portly woman, shaped like a mother and when I couldn’t keep up with my reading she often let it slide instead of chastising me. She was the first person to make me feel like I was smart.

9. Select a journal entry from the list
Select a journal entry from the list. Try to incorporate the elements of STEAL (characterization) as you write. You may characterize yourself, the narrator, or any other character that arises in your journal entry.

10. READING LAB /16/12
Do Now: Use the word tentative and ambivalent in a sentence.
Learning Target:
Analyze character
Monitor initial reactions to text.