1. BELLWORK
Have you related to Holden yet? How have you related to him?

2. PLANNER: HOMEWORK
Tonight, I would like you to type up your symbol story in the MLA format we are going to learn. It needs to be printed and ready to go for class on Thursday!

3. CLASS IN TWO PARTS PART ONE: Character Analysis and Traits: Catcher
PART TWO:
MLA and How to Format

4. Character Analysis and Traits: Catcher

5. Holden as a Character
As a character, Holden has a few things he does that are characteristically “him”
He tends to use a lot of emotional mechanisms that make him the victim of other people, which places the blame on others for his behavior
He tends to not have much emotional reaction in his voice, but we can tell, as readers, that there is a lot that Holden really does care about

6. Holden as a Character
Holden also tends to seem to be a passive character
This means that he lets things happen to him, rather than doing things to effect an outcome in the story
He also describes things as happening to him versus him enacting these things to happen
For example, it is the lousiness of people that causes Holden to be an outsider, not the fact that he pushes people away

7. Other Characters
Salinger also uses the grotesque to describe many of the characters in the novel
The grotesque is the exaggeration of action to the extreme to make it gross or unreal and uncomfortable for its reader
These gross moments in Catcher are so distorted that it almost makes the moment comedic
For example: Mr. Spencer and Ackley do gross things to the point that they become almost funny

8. Conversation
What else do you notice about Holden or the other characters that we’ve met?
Why do you think Salinger writes them in this way?

9. PART II: MLA

10. Directions Please get out a new, blank sheet of paper
You are going to treat this as your template of the way you should type your papers from this point forward!

11. What do we need first?

12. We Need A Header
A header gives us the author’s last name and the page number
This is extremely important to keep our info in order

13. Header

14. Header

15. Header

16. Header

17. Header

18. Header

19. Header

20. Now Let’s Change the Font
What font should our paper be in?
Times New Roman!

21. What is Still Wrong with the Format?

22. Everything Needs to be in 12 Point Font!

23. What’s Next? Now, we need our name
There is a specific order that your name, class name, etc. NEEDS to be in to follow the MLA format

24. Format

25. What is Still Wrong with the Format?

26. Everything Needs to be Double-Spaced!

27. Double-Spacing

28. Double-Spacing

29. Double-Spacing

30. Double-Spacing

31. Double-Spacing

32. What Do We Need Next?

33. A… Title!
Make it fun
This is where you can get creative and even punny

34. Title

35. Title
The title needs to be centered!
Seriously, make it fun or cheesy

36. What Do We Need Next?

37. Now...
We can start our paper!
But not without a few rules

38. Rules As You Continue Keep the paper consistent Double-Spacing
Indentation at Paragraphs
Always the Same Font