Assignments

Caribbean Paper

List for Prewriting:

Here's what we've read:

• • Caribbean Pretest

  • "Encarnacion Mendoza's Christmas Eve"

  • "Tobias"

  • "A Poisoned Tale"

  • Folktales

  • Poetry

  • "Some People are Meant to Live Alone"

  • "Fishy Waters"

  • All the Presentations

  • "Sophie and the Angel"

  • "In the Family"

  • Caribbean Round Up Choices

  • "Girl"

  • "The Girl and the River"

For "The Girl and the River"

• • Write what you think the story says about about progress and tradition. 

  • What does the narrator not understand? 

  • What does the story make you think about?   

For "Girl" 

Write your own version but make the context America in 2017

"My Mother" Writing Questions:

• What does the story say about gratitude?

• What does the narrator learn about her mother?

• How will what she learns affect her moving forward?

Tell me a similar story from your own life--where you learned to appreciate another person--family or friend.

"Fishy Waters" Questions

On your own sheet of paper, do the following:

• • Make a list of the characters, what we know about them and a list of adjectives to describe them.

  • List the events we know for certain:

  • List the events we don't know:

  • Explain what the possible interpretations you see for the last line:

For "Tobias,"  There's a sheet.

For "Encarnacion Mendoza's Christmas Eve," There's a sheet. 

Caribbean Folktales Writing Questions

In writing, explain which of these folktales is your favorite.  What drew you to it above the others?  Also talk about how these tales relate to each other as well as ones from our culture and the Caribbean.

Which of  the poems did you most like?

What impressions did you take away from these initial readings?

Writing Questions for The Lord of the Flies

al·le·go·ry

/ˈæl

əˌgɔri, -ˌgoʊri/ Show Spelled [al-uh-gawr-ee, -gohr-ee] Show IPA

noun, plural al·le·go·ries.

1.

a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms;

figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another.

• What is this story about? To what extent do you consider The Lord of the Flies an allegory?

• What did you think the boys felt at the end?  

• What do you want to talk about? What questions do you have about it?