For Thursday, August 21

Does your paragraph look like this?

At the bottom of this email, you will find a more cohesive and understandable explanation of the project you will work on with your team on Thursday.  I encourage you to read it carefully, so when you arrive on Thursday, you are ready to go.

Continue reading Frederick Douglass and annotating according to your bookmark.  We will also work with Oscar's three "raisons d'etre" on Thursday, so bring those with you.

Great Work Today.  You are a joy!

Doorknobs and Keyholes

Quotation Sandwiches - 5

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Look carefully at the five images of doorknobs/keyholes in the grandfather/renter’s sections of ELIC.  Your team will create five (5) mini-paragraphs in which you demonstrate how Foer’s use of images along with text impacts our understanding of the grandfather’s emotional stage at the given moment.

Each paragraph will probably have two quotation sandwiches.  When using an image as evidence, you will describe the image to the best of your ability.  Embed your quotations when analyzing the text. Synthesize the clues Foer gives you regarding character.

Sample:

In the Renter’s Section 1, entitled “Why I am not where you are”, Foer inserts an image of a doorknob, halfway locked from the inside.  The grandfather has chosen silence over communication after he loses someone he loves.  In this section, the grandmother approaches the grandfather and offers him a relationship.  This lock indicates that the grandfather finds himself in a quandary.  Will he open up to the grandmother, or will he choose to lock the door from the inside?  The grandfather thinks about his life: “the embarrassments… everything he had seen destroyed…I’d lost the only person I could have spent my only life with, I’d left behind a thousand tons of marble” (33).   The grandfather’s memories demonstrate the reasons he has for shutting people out and indicate that his first instinct drives him to reject the woman’s advances.  However, he ends the section by pointing to the word, “help.”  This mirrors the half open lock.  The grandfather desires to let the grandmother in; however, he finds himself unable to do so without her help.