1. January 26-30 American Literature
The Crucible
January 26-30
American Literature

2. Announcements Before 10 p.m. tonight, all grades should be updated.
Please be aware that grades take roughly 48 hours to show up on Synergy.
I am currently working on your class playlist.
I am going to give you guys feedback and I hope that you return the favor for me. Two things I think you can improve on, two things you do well (you will also come up with two things that I can improve on, and two things you think I do well).

3. McCarthyism Joseph McCarthy was a senator from Wisconsin.
Was obsessed with revealing communists in the USA.
An extremely vocal and active member of anticommunist crusades.

4. Handout [You have until 3:10 for Questions] (write your answers on the back of the last page)
Read the handout, then annotate the handout (a minimum of 2 annotations per page), then answer the following questions:
Who is Joseph McCarthy? What helped McCarthy win his election in Senate? What does that tell you about his character?
The anticommunist crusade were those in the “fight” against communists in the United States. Who was a part of the crusade? What were their roles (list at least 3)?
What was the “reasoning” behind the anticommunist crusade? Do you agree with what members of the crusade did? Why or why not?

5. Turn In Annotated Reading The Reading Questions
You may finish the annotations at home, but the answers to the questions MUST BE turned in TODAY.

6. Taking Your Own Notes
On the back of your Daily Notes “The Crucible Cont.” I would like for you to take down some of your own notes.
Consider words you do not know, questions you might have, and the similarities/differences between the McCarthyism Era and the Salem Witch Trials.
When you are done taking your own notes, read pages Answer questions 1 & 2 (all parts).

7. February 2, 2014 I am passing back some papers.
If you made below an 80 on something, you may revise and resubmit. However, you can only submit one thing at a time.
This is your only chance to revise/resubmit your work.

8. Daily Notes “Characterization”
Essential Questions:
What is the importance of using textual evidence in my writing?
How may I incorporate my textual evidence into my character/literary analysis?

9. What does “analyze” mean?
Analyze: to break down something into its smallest parts and examine how the pieces come together; to examine carefully and in detail so as to identify causes, key factors, possible results, etc.

10. What is a literary analysis?
Literary Analysis: the practice of looking closely at small parts to see how they affect the whole. Literary analysis focuses on how plot/structure, character, setting, and many other techniques are used by the author to create meaning.

11. Characterization
a literary device that is used step by step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story.
Focus in characterization:
Character behavior
Thought process of the character
Character’s opinions/ideas
Interactions with other characters
Character’s personality

12. Types of Characterization
When the narrator directly tells us some useful trait about a character, it is called direct characterization. (“Jane was a total slob; Mom needed a bulldozer just to clear a path to her bed and closet.”)
When the narrator indirectly shows us character traits and we must evaluate and decide for ourselves the character, it is called indirect characterization. (“Bryan was too busy for homework, since football practice took every afternoon, summer baseball playoffs took weekends, and his girlfriend Rosie took whatever was left.”)

13. 2 Types of Characters
Flat, static – a stock or stereotyped character, easily predicted, often seen as the motivation for the protagonist’s actions.
Round, dynamic – characters that change or develop throughout the course of the story; they exhibit a broad range of personality traits by the end of the tale.

14. What we are going to do today…
Take characterization notes.
Interpret our notes.
Creating a rationale for the interpretations.
Creating an interpretative statement by combining our notes, interpretation, and rationale.

15. S.A.T.D.O. S- what the characters SAYS A- the character’s APPEARANCE
T- the character’s THOUGHTS
D- what the character DOES
0- what OTHERS say about the character / how the character interacts with others.

16. How to do S.A.T.D.O. Choose a character to analyze.
Choose a quote pertaining to that character that fits into each S.A.T.D.O. category. Be sure to cite which pg. you took the quote from.
Take a few notes as to why you picked that quote or what you think that quote shows about that character.

17. What does it mean to interpret?
To give or providing meaning of.
To understand in a particular way.
To bring out meaning through performance or execution.
To translate.

18. What can influence our interpretations?
Culture
Social groups
Emotions
Background knowledge
History (ourselves, the world, and the author)

19. Rationale
a set of reasons or a logical basis for a course of action or a particular belief.
WHY you believed/thought something.
HOW you came to these beliefs/thoughts about something.

20. What are Interpretive Statements?
Interpretive statements are literary analysis. You are analyzing the impact of the author’s choices regarding how the characters are introduced and developed.

21. Putting it all together; Interpretive Statements
Choose one of the quotations from your SATDO chart.
Interpret the quote in one or more complete sentences.
Embed the quote being sure to properly cite the quote.
The quote and your interpretation should flow smoothly together.
Reread, edit, revise.

22. Your Job Choose a character for your SATDO chart.
Fill out your SATDO chart for your character, just as we did together for Mrs. Putnam.
You CANNOT use Mrs. Putnam as your character!

23. Right Now
Write down six things you noticed that were different about the portrayal of your chosen character in the movie and in the play or the differences between the play and the movie overall.
You may write them in bullet form or in paragraph form, but either way they need to be in complete sentences.
You will turn this in at the tray before leaving.