1. Fiction Day 7: A Separate Peace
Review and discuss chpts. 1 & 2
Journal #1: What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done to a friend? The worst thing you could think of doing? Had done to you?
Discuss responses/we will be reading about friendships, etc
SP Setting and Character, fill in for what we’ve read so far
Major Themes from SP—look for quotes that fit these themes: you will need six quotes, including pages numbers, for each theme.
Vocabulary list in back of SG—Quiz on Tuesday
Begin reading tonight’s homework aloud
HW: chpt. 3
M. W. Gone

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.