TuesdayJanuary 13, 2015

LibraryTake this index card and write down 3 character traits of the main character in your literature circle book. Use the words on page 56 of your writers’ notebooks.

Also, read the article on tenant farming. We need writers’ notebooks

What is wrong with this picture?

Vocabulary Sort(look in your folders)

Can thoroughly explain

Have seen before but not sure of the meaning

Don’t know at allappalling

fragilityflutteragapeindistinguishablecommunicativepovertysolemncanealmanac

The Whistle by Eudora Welty (Part One) 1st Read:

I will to you

2nd Read:Choosing your lense**Highlight mood Words**I will read the first paragraph, and you will finish readingsilently to yourself

The Whistle by Eudora Welty (Part One)According to Suzanne Marrs (biographer for Ms. Welty),

“A friend of Welty’s lived in Utica, MS, ….Welty

occasionally visited her there. In the early thirties, during an overnight stay, Welty heard a piercing whistle warn local tenant farmers of the coming freeze….the next morning Welty encountered visible signs of a poverty and a desperation she had never imagined: the fields were covered with clothes and bedclothes, anything the tenants could muster to protect their fragile crops. At her own home Welty had often gone out into the night to cover the camellias she so loved to grow, but never had her actions been crucial to her family’s very existence. The distinction between her sheltered life and the lives of Mississippi’s tenant farmers left an indelible impression upon her, and it soon inspired the plot of a story.”

The Whistle by Eudora Welty (Part One)

Second, look for patterns in what you circled. What are these words making you feel?

Setting 1

The Whistle by Eudora Welty (Part One)

LOOK FOR A NEW UNDERSTANDINGWhat do these details from the text as well as the patterns you found tell you about life in the 1930s for a sharecropper? How specifically do these words lead you to a deeper understanding of the mood that Welty is describing?

Mood Word Debate: Defend your choice of mood words to your

group. Decide whose word portrays the mood the clearest and help strengthen the text evidence to defend from the other groups!

The Whistle by Eudora Welty (Part Two)

Listen to the video and write notes about the emergence (where it all began) of sharecropping.

Vocabulary Sort

Can thoroughly explain

Have seen before but not sure of the meaning

Don’t know at all

CavernousLaxityIllusionVastExtensiveProstrateIngenuityIdlyKeroseneExtravagantAgitationConcealDependencyexact

The Whistle by Eudora Welty (Part Three)

The Whistle by Eudora Welty (Part Three)

Choosing your lense: First, gather evidence about the mood in this final portion of the short story. Specifically look for and circle words and phrases which establish the mood similar to Setting 1. Write examples on Venn diagram. Second, Look specifically in paragraph 22-27 and underline words which show the theme is changing from hopeless to hopeful.

Setting 1

Setting 2Setting 3

The Whistle by Eudora Welty (Part Three)

LOOK FOR A NEW UNDERSTANDINGReread paragraphs 28-34 and underline text evidence about the overall mood which provides final evidence to the theme Welty is portraying. How specifically do these words lead you to a deeper understanding of the mood that Welty is describing?

Take a moment to think about how this story

made you feel. What is your mood?

The Whistle by Eudora Welty

Round Robin Table Write

Claim: Welty was a compassionate and tenderhearted woman who used her camera and her pen to reveal the hopeless state of sharecroppers.

Brainstorm at your table to find evidence to support the above claim. Each table will be given a different text to use. Next, after being assigned which paragraph of the essay to

write, begin to write with your table. Each person must record the person’s sentence sitting next to them and ALL

must revise wording!

The Whistle by Eudora Welty

Round Robin Table Write

Claim: Welty was a compassionate and tenderhearted woman who used her camera and her pen to reveal the hopeless state of sharecroppers.

Paragraph 1: claim and introduce WeltyParagraph 2: prove claim with evidence from photographsParagraph 3: prove claim with evidence from her writingParagraph 4: restate claim and close out the essay