Today we discussed the longwrite entries and how essential it is to use these as a space to tinker around with the theories we have about potential theme. All students approach it differently and that is ok--some need to write first about the problem they see in the story then they can get to the theme, others can just jump right in and say the emerging theme is.... and then follow that up with examples and thinking through the text. Remember your goal is to state a theme that is a full sentence and that applies to life.
We then spent time reviewing the story of Nighjohn as it has been a long time since we read the book in its entirety. Please see the summary cheat sheet here.
HW for tonight is to create a bulleted list(in reflections section of RN) of problems in the novel Nightjohn. This list will be used in class tomorrow to begin writing long about potential themes in the book.
Also Logs will be collected Monday 12/8 150 minutes.
