Before I am sidetracked by today's agenda, don't forget about our diagnostic prompt on "The Birthmark" tomorrow! Bring your close read, paper, and pen/pencil. Prompt will be waiting for you with a bell to bell time limit.
Meanwhile in reminding you how to write an essay (look, a pretty thesis; look, a smattering of literary elements; look, evidence from the text), we finished up our "Helens," or as Amber puts it, the love triangle among Poe, Dolittle, and Helen of Troy, with sharing thesis statements (ah, the verb and adjective use was on point) and evidence regarding speaker, diction, imagery, form, and tone.
With poetry in the rear view, prose takes center stage, especially the characterization element of fiction. Everything is fair game for garnering characterization - exposition, relationships with other characters, dialogue, body language, diction, and so forth. From the first moments of our Gatsby passage, you already see Tom's character forming. When analyzing a prose passage, you want your pen ready to mark all of those hints and conjoin them into a final, adjective-laced description.
Finish up close reading Tom's characterization passage for the block day.
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