Catcher in the Rye 1.3

Catcher in the Rye 1.3

DO NOW:

• Please create a new subject in Notability called “Catcher in the Rye.”
• Please take a copy of Catcher in the Rye from the front table and sign out your book number on the sheet next to your name. Write your name on the inside front cover of the book.
• Please record the following literary terms and definitions in your English 9 Literary Terms Log (you already have this in Notability) under Catcher in the Rye.

motif: a recurring pattern, image, object that occurs repeatedly throughout a novel with special meaning

flashback/frame tale:  a story that is told from one point of time about a time in the past; the narrator is often looking back in time as he/she tells the story

unreliable narrator: a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, biased or distorted, so that it departs from the “true” or “real’ understanding of events.  The term does not necessarily mean that such a narrator is morally untrustworthy, or a habitual liar (though this may be true in some cases).  

Objectives:

• understand that Holden is an unreliable narrator based on details from chapter 1.

AGENDA:

1. DO NOW
2. Read Catcher in the Rye chapter 1 together & answer reading guide questions
3. Socrative summarizer: How is Holden an unreliable narrator? Give an example from what we’ve read today.
4. Catcher Quotation Discussions overview, directions, and sample post & comment

HW: Read chapters 1-3; post to “Catcher Quotation Discussion” according to the schedule.