+ Honest Truths Take a minute and write for me one simple truth of the way the world works (ie. Love is all you need). Explain it, and tell me why you.

Introducing The Once and Future King

Honest TruthsTake a minute and write for me one simple truth of the way the world works (ie. Love is all you need).

Explain it, and tell me why you believe these to be absolutely true (or mostly always true). +Literature, Themes, and Making Sense of Fiction.A smorgasbord of fun!+Leveled ReadingMaking-Meaning+Lets Read a Story!

+Please do nowTalk to someone close to you about the patterns you see in the plot of The Giving Tree. Try to list some of them in the Level 2 box on your chart.

Questions to help:What are some reoccurring ideas in the text?

What big topics might this book be about?

In other words, is this a book about community, friendship, honesty, etc.?+Leveled ReadingLevel 1 Surface Reading / Plot SummaryDescribing, paraphrasing, or summarizing plotUnproductive personal connectionsLevel 2 Interpretation of Plot / Characters / Narrative / PatternCritical interpretation of plot and/or charactersThis is the pattern is occurring within the text based on your level 1 observations.Level 3 Interpretation & Proof of Connection to ThemeWhat is the theme, and what is the PROOF FROM THE TEXT that shows the theme (message/moral)

+What is the point of writing about literature?Figure out what the author is trying to tell us.A messageA moralA truth about the worldAlways a full sentence. The message is never about the book.The worldPeople in generalA message about a topic.When we write an essay, we try to prove what the authors message is by using the details of the story.

+How do Topics and Themes fit in?Topics are the subjects of books. They are what the book is about.Examples: War, death, love, loss, growing up, redemption

A theme is the point an author is making about that topic.Example: War never solves conflict.

We cant understand the message without knowing the topic. The content of the book itself tells us what the authors point is about its topic (the theme). SO we cant determine the message without reading and tracking how these topics are discussed.+Can you tell the difference?Technology is a curse and a blessingLeadershipLoveViolence never solves conflictsEducationCensoring literature deprives students of educational opportunities+The Giving TreeLevel 1 Surface Reading / Plot Summary

Level 2 Interpretation of Plot / Characters / Narrative / Pattern

Level 3 Interpretation & Proof of Connection to Theme

+Leveled Reading Of TGTLevel 1 Surface Reading / Plot Summary

Level 2 Interpretation of Plot / Characters / Narrative / Pattern Level 3 Interpretation & Proof of Connection to Theme

+Order of Making Meaning in Literary StudyReadCollect Details Post-its connected to topicsDetermine Topic Must be significant to the textAnswers: What is the book about?I do this part for you in advance. It often requires re-reading and is one of the more difficult steps to determine the first time through the book.Return to the details. Details are combined and form a pattern. The pattern tells us something about the topic.Example: Whenever we see technology used, someone is hurt or killed.Interpreted to determine the authors purpose in discussing the topic which is the THEME.Authors Theme (message about a big idea)Technology hurts people.Your Thesis = Author uses [X the pattern] to reveal [Y the theme].

+Book I Big TopicsEducation

Leadership+Please do nowTake any patterns you found in your discussion earlier in the period and write them on the boards around the room.We dont have to be RIGHT. We just want to start to search for patterns.

Education on the front board

Leadership on the side board+Introducing The Once and Future KingT.H. White

+Context for O&FKA little Arthur chatA little history lessonA little epistle, if youre picking up what Im putting down. if youre catchin my drift. if youre feelin the vibe, daddy-o+Based onA book by a guy named Sir Thomas Malory:

Le Morte DArthur

1485+Le Morte DArthurAnd so long they fought that tidings came to King Arthur, and anon he graithed him and came to the battle, and saw his knights how they had vanquished the battle, he embraced them knight by knight in his arms, and said, Ye be worthy to wield all your honour and worship; there was never a king save myself that had so noble knights. Sir, said Cador, there was none of us failed other, but of the prowess and manhood of Sir Launcelot were more than wonder to tell, and also of his cousins which did that day many noble feats of war. And also Sir Cador told who of his knights were slain, as Sir Berel, and other Sir Moris and Sir Maurel, two good knights. Then the king wept, and dried his eyes with a kerchief, and said, Your courage had near-hand destroyed you, for though ye had returned again, ye had lost no worship; for I call it folly, knights to abide when they be overmatched. Nay, said Launcelot and the other, for once shamed may never be recovered.

+Why is this important, Mr. Stadnycki?The Sword in the Stone(1938)

The Queen of Air and Darkness(1939, originally titledThe Witch in the Wood)

The Ill-Made Knight(1940)

The Candle in the Wind(1958)

+SO GLAD YOU ASKED, Mikayla!

+Think historically!What might be important about the dates of his first three books?

The Sword in the Stone(1938)

The Queen of Air and Darkness(1939)

The Ill-Made Knight(1940)

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On the History !Let's take a Ride...

+Well, Mr. Stadnycki, what did T.H. want us to think about the book?

Did he tell us?+Not specifically,Steven, no, but I can tell youre a bright young man, and those are the right kinds of questions!But heres something you might be interested to hear!+And he gave us an epigraphEpigraphs:

An epigraph is a brief bit of text, usually borrowed from another writer, found before a [piece of writing], but after the title. . . . It gives a reader, or listener, something else to hold in mind as the poem is read.

Neither part of the [writing], nor wholly separate from it, an epigraph can be used for various purposes:it can be necessary information to understand a poem, for example, or it can be something with which the poem disagrees.

Source: http://www.poetryarchive.org/glossary/epigraph#sthash.Gc40jlpE.dpuf+Did he write this?Book 1:

She is not any common earthWater or wood or air,But Merlins Isle of GramaryeWhere you and I will fare.

Rudyard Kiplings Pucks Song+but what does it all mean, Mr. Stadnycki?Ahh Good! Now youre thinking. Thats the point!

Partner-up and decide!Think of the timeline.Think of his letter.Think of what youve read so far.

What type of text are we reading? What is this 600-something page book?+So, how do we know whats important?an eddication on picking out relevant details for interpretation.

+How do authors communicate important details? Objects/places/people that are repetitively used or mentioned within the text.PlacesPeopleIdeasScenes/moments from earlier in the novelThe author takes a lengthy time to describe it in detail or explain it.ScenesPeopleActions of a CharacterCharacters mentalityObjects/scenes/dialogue with particular relationships or connections to a particular character.Potential symbolsCharacters talking about other charactersSomething a character does when theyre aloneAlmost all dialogue is highly relevant. What they sayHow they say itDescriptions of characters AS they speak (BIG ONE!)

+The devils in the details so thats where we have search.Specific words and WHY the author chose them (think Key Word and Phrase quotation)the governess was always getting muddled with her astrolabeThe word muddled means confused/messed up, and its important for us to see because shes their guide. The word muddled tell us that, not only is the educator muddled, shes bound to be muddling Kay and Wart as well.Word Choice, Tone and Context[Kay] was too dignified to have a nickname and would have flown into a passion.Its possible here that Kay actually is dignified. But, hes a kid. And its a nickname. Kids get nicknames. Instead, Kay may not actually be too dignified, and being too dignified has a feeling of arrogance about it. So, Kay is arrogant, and he believes hes more important than he may be. The fact that he flies into a passion as a result of this shows that he doesnt have much maturity, and hes why care so much about a simple nickname? He places his social station above others feelings if hes willing to get so angry about such a small thing.What is said vs. whats not said (implied)Kay was not bladed, although he often went wrongSo, Kay isnt punished, but that implies that Wart often is (there are only two of them). So, Wart is punished, and it also doesnt say that Wart often does wrong. So, we can assume that Kay isnt learning from his mistakes, but the Wart might be learning from them.

+Find the devil!On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition and Astrology. The governess was always getting muddled with her astrolabe, and when she got specially muddled she would take it out of the Wart by rapping his knuckles. She did not rap Kay's knuckles, because when Kay grew older he would be Sir Kay, the master of the estate. The Wart was called the Wart because it more or less rhymed with Art, which was short for his real name. Kay had given him the nickname. Kay was not called anything but Kay, as he was too dignified to have a nickname and would have flown into a passion if anybody had tried to give him one. The governess had red hair and some mysterious wound from which she derived a lot of prestige by showing it to all the women of the castle, behind closed doors. It was believed to be where she sat down, and to have been caused by sitting on some armour at a picnic by mistake. Eventually she offered to show it to Sir Ector, who was Kay's father, had hysterics and was sent away. They found out afterwards that she had been in a lunatic hospital for three years. In the afternoons the programme was: Mondays and Fridays, tilting and horsemanship; Tuesdays, hawking; Wednesdays, fencing; Thursdays, archery; Saturdays, the theory of chivalry, with the proper measures to be blown on all occasions, terminology of the chase and hunting etiquette. If you did the wrong thing at the mort or the undoing, for instance, you were bent over the body of the dead beast and smacked with the flat side of a sword. This was called being bladed. It was horseplay, a sort of joke like being shaved when crossing the line. Kay was not bladed, although he often went wrong.

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