Friday, Sept. 4 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Answer at least one of these questions in your writer’s notebook. Use proper grammar and conventions and write a paragraph or more per bullet point. Give many different examples in your answer.  If you finish one and there is still time, answer the other one!

•What does it mean to be true to yourself?

•What does it mean to be a good person?

••Discuss Bell Ringer

•Catcher in the Rye

•Discussion of Salinger article

•http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/jd-salinger/infographic-the-path-to-the-catcher-in-the-rye/2790/

•Intro to book, how the unit will work

•Study Guide

•Quote Tracing: keep track of textual evidence that show teen life, textual evidence that demonstrates how people can connect with it or that shows it is a book ‘with an impact,’ or evidence that would make people dislike the book/find it offensive  (WRITE THIS IN YOUR READER’S NOTEBOOK SECTION)

•Point of View

•Reliable vs. Unreliable narrator

•Study Guide Questions

•What are some lines from the first pages that would make it a book that ‘has an impact’? What are lines that would cause people to want to ban it?

•“Game…” pg 8: What does he mean? What in it is true? Do you agree? Why?

•“People never notice…” pg 9: Why does this make Holden a person people connect to?

•Read from pg 9 “People never notice…” to the end of chapter 2 (pg 16). Make sure to have that and the questions for ch 2 done by Tuesday