1. Reflecting on change in literature and in your own lives:
The Concept of Change
Reflecting on change in literature and in your own lives:

2. Brainstorm ideas about change
What ideas come to mind when you think about change?
What kind of things change? What is it about them that changes?
How do you know when something has changed? What evidence do you look for to determine whether a change has occurred?
All statements come from the Persuasion Unit (The College of William and Mary)

3. Categorize the ideas that were written down, putting them into groups and giving each group a title.

4. Think about the following:
How could you categorize these ideas into groups?
What could you call each group? Why?
Do all of your changes fall into groups? Might some of them belong in more than one group?
Is there a different way you might categorize your ideas? What other categories might you use?
What are some of the characteristics of change, based on the ideas you have written?

5. Brainstorm a list of things that do not change:
What are some things that do not change? What are some things that always seem the same or always happen the same way?
What evidence or proof do you have that these things do not change?
How might you group the things that do not change? What can you call each of these groups?
How are the groups of things that do not change similar to or different from the groups of things that do change? (Use a Venn diagram.)

6. Think about the following ideas and whether they show change:
Routines or habits
Table manners
Laws
Customs of cultures
Explain your answers. If they show change, where would they fit into your categories of changes? If they do not, where would they fit into your categories of things that do not change?

7. Generalizations about change
A generalization is something that is always or almost always true.
What generalizations can you make about change?
Use your examples and categories to guide your thinking, and write several statements that are generalizations about change.

8. We will use 5 generalizations this year in our literature as well as your other classes
Change is linked to time.
Change may be positive or negative.
Change may be perceived as orderly or random.
Change is everywhere.
Change may happen naturally or be caused by people.

9. How do our 5 generalizations about change apply or not apply to the things listed below?
Non-living things (a chair, a pair of scissors, etc)
Traditions (special holidays, celebrations of birth, passage, and death)
Religious rituals (celebrations of Christmas or Hanukkah)
Universal truths (all living things die; all triangles have three sides)

10. Work with your group to create the change model:

11. Time to Write
Using Harris and Me, prove that one of the generalizations of change is true
Length=one, front page…can be just one paragraph, but use transition words
Refer back to your group’s change model for supporting evidence; you must include 3 supporting details and add your thoughts.
Conclusion