Week 7
Class Ground Rules
Read all the assignments before class.
Keep yourself on mute unless called on.
Raise your hands electronically.
Focus your comments only on the question at hand rather than straying to other parts of the story.
Refrain from offering a review of the whole story or jumping to the end.
Try to support your comments by referring to details from the text.
Listen to and respond to others with respect.
READ (at least twice): Author – “Aunt Telephone,” (from Binocular Vision, pp. 354-366).
A young girls forms a special bond with an unusual family friend.
Think About:
How does the first person narration serve the story?
What do we learn about Susan (the narrator) and Milo in the first section of the story (at the party)?
Why do you think Susan includes the memories from Bosky's animal preserve?
What does Susan admire about Milo? Why do you think she bonds with him?
How does Susan's new friendship with Anjali change the way she feels about Milo?
Why do people begin to distance themselves from Milo?
“Some particular interests of mine are inter-species liaisons; asexuals, who get scanted by writers; and accommodation—to circumstances, to personal limitations, to the claims of family, to place.” —Edith Pearlman
Agouti - a rat-like rodent native to Central and South America. In the wild, they are shy animals and flee from humans, while in captivity they may become trusting. They make their den in a system of burrows among boulders, tree roots, hollow logs, or brushy tangles on the forest floor.