Friday, March 15 day 2 of organizer for "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"

Coming up:  on Monday and Tuesday, you will use both the chart in your notebook and your graphic organizer. Both will due at the close of class on Tuesday, unless you receive extended time, at which point they will be due by Wednesday. You must share these with me through google docs (2006630).  For anyone who wishes to get ahead, I have put the writing assignment at the close of today's blog.

In class:  Vocabulary quiz: "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall". Today you will continue to independently and carefully reread the story, organizing your ideas in the handout (copy below).  It is extremely important that you use textual evidence, as this is your resource for the writing assignment on Monday / Tuesday of next week.  Make sure you, as well, copied the chart from Monday into your notebook. See blog for Monday, March 11, if you have not.

Name _____________________________The Jilting of Granny Weatheral by Katherine Ann Porter

Using specific text, fill in the following columns to explain the stream of consciousness technique.

WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING	WHAT GRANNY THINKS IS HAPPENING	What memory of Granny’s is triggered
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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Ann Porter    vocabulary

Test Friday, March 15

1.       tactful (adjective)- having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others

2.       rummage (verb or adjective)- to search haphazardly.

3.       clammy (adjective)- unpleasantly cool and humid

4.       vanity (noun)- feelings of excess pride

5.       gauzy (adjective)- so thin as to transmit light

6.       agony(noun)-    intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

7.       absurd  (adjective)- inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense

8.       frippery                -(noun)- something of little value or significance (often having to do with clothes)

9.       to dwindle (verb)- become smaller or lose substance

10.   nimbus -(noun)- an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint
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Directions:

       Begin with an MLA heading.  (Typed)

       In a minimum of 250 words, respond to the following question:

How does Porter’s stream of consciousness technique affect the reading of the short story The Jilting of Granny Weatherall?

1.    Begin with a hook about what stream of consciousness writing is and some of its qualities. (Use your notebooks, if you are unsure.) 

2.    Introduce the genre, title and author and write a thesis statement on how the stream of consciousness technique affects the reading of the story.

3.    In the next two paragraphs, consider specifically two events in Granny’s life and how the technique affects the understanding of her character. 

4.    Conclusion: How would Granny’s story be different if her life story were told as a chronological narrative?

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