Independent Reading
Please read your IR book for 20 minutes.
If you do not have your IR book, please come to
the front of the room and sign out an alternate
reading assignment. When it comes time to do a
journal, please use this magazine article for your
Literature Log.
Literature Log
Please use one of the following sentence
starters to write your journal, or you may select
your own:
#4, 8, 16, 21, or 23
Write a full page!!!
Do Now: Interpret the quote in your
own words.
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see,...”
— Theodore Roethke
The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, 1966
Turn & Talk
Share your ideas about what the quote means
with your group members.
As a group, decide what the quote means.
How could your group’s interpretation of the
quote be DEMONSTRATED or SUPPORTED by
examples from The Absolutely True Diary of a
Part-Time Indian?
Critical Lens Introductory
Paragraph:
Restate the quote.
Interpret it (explain what it means) in your own
words.
Agree or disagree with the quote.
Introduce two works of literature that support
your interpretation of the quote.
Critical Lens Body
Paragraphs 1 & 2
Use a DIFFERENT work of literature in each paragraph.
Give an example of how the critical lens (quote) relates to
your work. Give specific details from the story to prove your
point: <TITLE WORK 1> by <AUTHOR>is a good example of
this statement because <EXPLAIN>.
Chose a literary element that relates to your example from
above and explain why the author may have used this literary
technique to help prove your interpretation of the critical lens:
<LITERARY TERM>, <DEFINITION>, occurs when <GIVE
EXAMPLES>.
Critical Lens Conclusion
Your conclusion should have similar information to your
introduction, but sound different. Restate the critical lens
(quote). Give your interpretation of it, but in different words.
Summarize your arguments (tell briefly how it is true in the
story you chose).
Give your critical lens essay a fresh ending. (For example:
an intensified insight [this does not mean your feelings], a
quote that illustrates your argument, or a revelation or new
idea about the story or piece).
Introduction
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Did the student restate the quote and who wrote or said it?
Did the student interpret the quote in their own words?
Is the student interpretation of the quote VALID?
Did the student agree or disagree with the quote?
Did the student introduce a work of literature & author that
supports the way he/she interprets the quote?
6. Did the student use correct grammar? Are sentences clear,
well-formed, and use correct punctuation, spelling,
capitalization, and appropriate word choice?
7. Did the student use Formal Standard English?
Body Paragraph 1
Did the student explain how the quote applies to
the first work?
Did the student AVOID plot summary?
Did the student use literary terms illustrated by
two or more specific scenes in the work of
literature that SUPPORT HIS/HER interpretation
of the quote?
Body Paragraph 2
Did the student explain how the quote applies to
a second and different work of literature?
Did the student AVOID plot summary?
Did the student use literary terms illustrated by
two or more specific scenes in the work of
literature that SUPPORT HIS/HER interpretation
of the quote?
Conclusion
Did the student summarize his or her argument?
Did the student tie the ideas (main ideas) from BOTH
works of literature together and explain how they
prove his/her thesis—the interpretation of the quote?
Did the student RESTATE the original quote?
Did the student bring the essay to a satisfying and
logical close?
Homework
Make sure ALL remaining worksheets for The
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian are
complete and ready to be reviewed tomorrow!!!
YOU WILL RECEIVE YOUR WINTER BREAK
ASSIGNMENTS TOMORROW!