AP Lit & Comp 2/8 18

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1 AP Lit & Comp 2/8 18

2 TODAY S AGENDA 1. Leading the discussion details 2. Turn in prose paragraphs from Under the Feet of Jesus 3. Share out thesis statements 4. Key info from Genesis and epigraph activity 5. For next class...

3 LEADING THE DISCUSSION Group led class discussions start Tues 2/20 (covering the first section of Judges. ) You will have some time right now to meet with your group and plan when you ll get together. - Please figure out your groups, (the number of people needed per group is specified in the instructions on Classroom) and sign up in the document on Classroom. First come, first serve. - Take 15 minutes to meet with your group.

4 PROSE ESSAYS Please turn in your body paragraph and thesis for Under the Feet of Jesus. I ll give you some feedback on Monday, when we are also debriefing ATOTC essays. For Monday, please do the following with the two excerpts I m giving you: Work the prompts, figuring out the heart of the prompt. Write a clear thesis statement for each.

5 Ruth Book of Ruth, a figure of loyalty and Biblical Allusions Nathan prophet in Old Testament best known for rebuking King David for his affair with Bathsheba Rachel and Leah in Book of Genesis, two sisters who were wives of Jacob. Leah known for being blessed by God with fertility and Rachel cursed with barrenness. Rachel also known for her beauty, while Leah is favored by God for inner beauty.

6 Ruth Book of Ruth, a figure of loyalty and friendship, refuses to abandon her mother-in-law Adah in the Bible there are two Adahs who are both relatively obscure. Significance? Methuselah Biblical figure whose name is synonymous with old age, living 969 years. Not a major character, mentioned only in one chapter. Book One Genesis - beginnings

7 A phrase, quotation, poem, or saying set at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme. Kingsolver will preface each book of the novel with a specific biblical verse: each will be important to the section thematically and for how it relates to the bible. EPIGRAPH

8 And God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, And subdue it: and have dominion Over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, And over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Genesis 1:28 Open up the presentation in Classroom. Find your character s slide Select textual evidence from your narrator s sections of Book I which support the central idea of the epigraph. Choose five quotations which are apt and precise. Be prepared to share your selections and your reasoning. EPIGRAPH ANALYSIS

9 Let s share out the quotes you chose which signify your character s connection to the Genesis epigraph. TALK about: in what context do these quotes occur? How do they relate to the epigraph? What do they reveal about character? EPIGRAPH ANALYSIS

10 Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened. First, picture the forest. I want you to be its conscience, the eyes in the trees. The trees are columns of slick, brindled bark like muscular animals overgrown beyond all reason. Every space is filled with life: delicate, poisonous frogs war-painted like skeletons, clutched in copulation, secreting their precious eggs onto dripping leaves. Vines strangling their own kin in the everlasting wrestle for sunlight. The breathing of monkeys. A glide of snake belly on branch. A single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous queen. And, in reply, a choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. This forest eats itself and lives forever.

11 This is our permanent order: Leah, Ruth May, Rachel, Adah. Neither chronological nor alphabetical but it rarely varies, unless Ruth May gets distracted and falls out of line. What might this order tell the reader about the girls characters?

12 FOR NEXT CLASS Read Revelations in TPWB this reading is due next Wednesday. For Monday, read the two prose passages I m giving you today, and write a thesis statement for each.