1. Fiction Day 13: A Separate Peace
Journal #5, answer using full sentences: Are you eager to leave your teen years behind? Why or why not? What are the good things about being a teen? Bad things? How do you think Gene might answer this question? Finny?
Discuss via SG
Return to Character/Setting—kids fill in quotes for each setting, character
Return to Themes Quotes
If time, begin reading homework aloud
Homework: Read chpts 9 & 10. Quiz on chpts. 7-9 tomorrow/Monday; 3 quotes per theme for Monday

2. Gene Phineas Leper Brinker Character Personality Traits
Events that change the character
Changes the character undergoes
Gene
Phineas
Leper
Brinker

3. Gene and Phineas’s room
Location
Details
Significant Event
The Devon River
Phineas’s home
Gene and Phineas’s room
The Naguamsett River
The gym
The First Academy building

4. Major Themes in A Separate Peace
Understanding conflict within oneself is a necessary part of growing up.
Friendship grows through conflict, resolving differences, forgiveness, and accepting each other’s strengths and weaknesses.
A person’s own insecurities may cause him to misinterpret a friend’s actions or words.
Personal joys and pains are felt more strongly than great public events like war.