Today at the beginning of class you took a short reading quiz. I then showed you The Giving Tree movie narrated by Shel Silverstein. You can access that video HERE. Next I asked you to do a bit of writing in response to the following questions: How do you interpret Silverstein's The Giving Tree? What does it mean? Do you see multiple meanings/readings? I then gave you some background information on the author. You can learn more about the author HERE and HERE. I then gave a presentation in which I introduced you to scholar Lisa Rowe Fraustino's discussion of multiple interpretations of the picturebook, along with her own interpretation. You can access that presentation HERE. You can also access her article, which the presentation is based upon, HERE. I asked you to respond throughout the presentation to the various interpretations of the book. I then asked you to break up into pairs to work on an in-class writing exercise. You can access that document HERE.Homework
- Read Clark's "Audience" and Fraustino's article (linked above)
- Paper 1 is due on Thursday. Please see the grading rubric HERE.
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