 Extended Metaphor Memoir- 0’s go in today
 20 minute Reading Time- Annotate!!!!
 Tree, questions, vocab, judgments
 Illustration Gallery Walk
 Caption Cards
 Artist’s Statement
 Submission
 Question Review
 Quiz Time
 What is Objectification?
 Each one that we do has a significant impact on your grade.
 You will come in at lunch ready to talk to me in person about the setting of your
book and the influence that it has on the characters.
 (When, Where, Influence)
 Tuesday @ lunch: Victoria B, Fabio, Johnny, Jessica, Noritaka, Liran
 Wednesday @ lunch: Liam, Jordan, Jayden, Ian O, Jessilyn, Mark, Beth
 Each one that we do has a significant impact on your grade.
 You will come in at lunch ready to talk to me in person about the setting of your
book and the influence that it has on the characters.
 (When, Where, Influence)
 Wednesday @ lunch: Hikmat, Claudia, Chan, Mackenzie F, Luke, Alyssa, Ryan
 Thursday
@ lunch: Ben, Conor, Taylor, Kailee, Rachel, Elizabeth
 For those of you who have a tree you will sticky tack them to the
cupboard doors or the windows and place a caption card next to it.
 Everyone will then take turns to walk around and consider the
choices that everyone made with their tree illustrations.
Marking
5 = careful attention to a
 Each
caption card must have 2 commenters.
Name:
Arborist:
Quote:
Artistic Choices:
Connection to Melinda:
/5
wide range of details from
the novel.
- Color and appearance
are based on her art
lessons, season,
experiences,
surroundings.
3 = choices about colour
and appearance may lack
direct connection to
Melinda’s experience.
- Adequate range of details
gathered from the process
of annotation
 Once you have received two different reviewers then you will take your illustration
and caption card down from the wall.
 You will then turn the card over and write an Artist’s Statement.
1. What artistic choices did you make?
2. What meaning did you want to communicate?
3. Was there anything that was mentioned by the reviewers that you
had not considered?
On the Reading side of your folder you will
paperclip your:
1. Tree illustration
2. Reading response
3. Annotation
4. Caption card
 You will Need:
 A Pen
 A piece of loose leaf (number it 1-10)
 Separate your desks
 Protect your answers
 If there is talking then I take your sheet and you get a 0
 There is only one right answer!
 All questions are for Marking Period ONE
there are any correction or scratches
out then I will mark the question wrong.
If
Alien, Alien, Alien, Alien, Alien, Alien, Alien
“The first thing to go is the mirror. It is screwed to the wall,so
I cover it with a poster of Maya Angelou that the librarian
gave me. She said Ms. Angelou is one of the greatest
American writers. The poster was coming down because the
school board banned one of her books. She must be a great
writer if the school board is afraid of her. …I figure Maya
would like it if I read in here, so I bring a few books from
home. Mostly I watch the scary movies playing on the inside
of my eyelids.
It is getting harder to talk.” (50)
 Allusion is a literary term that referring to anytime a writer references a real thing
outside of the text.
 Name dropping/ referencing
 When Melinda finds a discarded poster of Maya Angelou in the school and chooses
to put it up in her janitor’s closet this is an allusion to Maya Angelou.
 She could have just said A poster, but there is a reason why it is Maya Angelou.
 April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014
 Was an American author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer
 Her best known work is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
 It is a memoir of the first 17 years of her life.
 She was active in the Civil Rights movement, and worked with Martin Luther King Jr.
and Malcolm X.
 Angelou’s sometimes-absentee mother,
Vivian Baxter, had a steel will and
several careers of her own. She was an
inadvertent player in an early,
formative trauma in Angelou’s life.
 When Angelou was 8 and briefly living
with Baxter in St. Louis, her mother’s
boyfriend raped Angelou. The man was
arrested, convicted and released; soon
after, he was found beaten to death.
 Believing she had caused the killing
because she had told of the rape,
Angelou refused to speak for several
years; only her beloved older brother,
Bailey, could coax her to talk.
http://www.visionaryproject.org/angeloumaya/#2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIYG9zIUDF0
A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wing
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.
But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.
To present or regard as an object: "Because we have objectified
animals, we are able to treat them impersonally" (Barry Lopez).
To transform a complex, living thing into an object (simplifying
them and stripping them of individuality.
Results in a lack of Empathy
 By perceiving the students as
a herd of animals what does this
take away from the students?
Individuality
Freedom
Personality
Voice/ Expression
 Does she see herself as human?
 How does she see the people around her?
 Map out her perceptions of the clans and/ or individuals.
•
Melinda (in the middle of the collage)
•
The Jocks
•
The Cheerleaders
•
The Teachers
•
Marthas
•
Melinda’s Parents
 Laurie Halse Anderson chose to have Melinda use these stereotypes herself
It’s a danger to our self-worth if we become
desensitized to it and reinforce that it is simply normal
to see these images everyday.
 What are these ads trying to sell us?
 Why do they think that this will work?
 Is it shocking that some people would not see a problem with a chant like the one
at SMU when this is what we are surrounded by?