This week we are discussing how setting effects who you are as a person, and the impact it has on literature.
Students will understand that identity is influenced by our surroundings. Students will understand their own identity as well as where other students are coming from. Students will be able to identify and analyze their own surroundings Students will be able to compare/contrast different settings
Assignment Expectations
Journal Entry
Lottery Discussion Questions
In-class activities
Literature Circle questions
Discussion Overview
Setting is crucial in shaping and defining us as a person.
In your journals this week, you will analyze how the setting you grew up in has affected you. What aspects of your setting can you relate directly to your life? For example, do you posses strong religions or political views based on the people who surrounded you or do you differ from the majority? How do you think your identity would be different if you grew up somewhere else?
After watching "Five Monkeys" and "The Lottery": how strongly are our identities influenced by traditions? What are some "traditions" you practice, or know of being practiced around the world? Do you agree or disagree with these?
The literature circle questions for this week regarding Invisible Man will focus on how the environment around the characters made certain behaviors acceptable and more likely to take place.