1. Put your stuff down at your desk…
And then arrange yourselves into alphabetical order!

2. Warm up 2/8 Journal Entry One – Catcher
Read this statement, and then decide whether you agree or disagree, and briefly explain why:
LIFE is a game; to get what you want, you must play by the rules.

3. Literary Experience You are not required to like what we read.
You are required to form your own opinion.
Do not poison the well.
Do not give your power over to others.

4. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

5. Holden Caulfield Is a cultural icon
Holden, and/or the plot of the story, are featured, referenced, alluded to, or otherwise figure into the plots of

6. Annie Hall
Wedding Crashers
The Shining
Tropic Thunder
Field of Dreams
The Hangover
Taxi Driver
Saved by the Bell
Chasing Amy
Drake and Josh
Six Degrees of Separations
South Park
Boy Meets World
Jerry Maguire
Criminal Minds
Finding Forrester
Pretty Little Liars
Chasing Holden
Gossip Gil
Conspiracy Theory
Family Guy
Pleasantville
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Orange County
Igby Goes Down
The Good Girl

7. Who is Holden? To some, he is an archetype of teen-ness
To others, he is “modern America.”
To many, he is who they are on the inside.

8. One complaint about this book…
Not much happens.

9. External Action (plot development)
Exposition
Inciting incident
Rising action
Climax
Falling action
Resolution/denouement

10. Internal Action (character development)
Instead of a progression of events that develop of plot toward a climax,
We’re watching a character move through a series of events, and observing how he changes.
Things to pay attention to:
What he tells us vs. what he doesn’t tell us.
Perception vs. reality
Interactions with others
Behaviors that manifest emotions
But rather than enter with an assumption, we need to enter with an open mind, looking for clues.

11. VOICE “I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.”
As we follow our narrator, Holden Caulfield, a junior in high school (formerly) at Pencey Prep in Agerstown, Pennsylvania, our goal is simple.
We need to figure out what, if anything, is wrong with him.
Edward Norton’s take on Holden/The Catcher in the Rye:

12. DSM –IV The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(there’s a fifth, but it’s pretty new)

13. Unit Overview Unit goals: highlight numbers 2, 3, and 5
Review calendar
Review daily writing prompts/grading scale/instructions
Staple/adhere both the unit plan AND the Pocket DSM into your journal