Responding to Quotations

We began today's class with two thoughtful quotations from our last section of reading.  Students discussed the significance of the quotations in small groups, and then we shared our thinking as a class.

Then, I read a new chunk aloud, and students were asked to fill out as many of the blank boxes in the elements of fiction template as they could, given what we have read so far.  Students pointed out that, at this point, examples of theme, or dynamic character, would not be known.  This is true!  However, there are many elements of fiction already evident in our novel.  We will discuss student responses next class.