Standard 08-27-2013

We are reading our first story today.  It's called "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury.  Here's a link to the story if you've lost your copy.  Be sure to read it carefully.  You'll need to highlight it and annotate it like we were doing in class.  As you read it think about the prompts we will be discussing tomorrow.  I've listed them below.

1) What is a pedestrian?

2) Be able to describe the city.

3) Pay close attention to everything about the police car. What does it symbolize?

4) Towards the end of the story, Bradbury describes a house that is “brightly lit”. What does that house symbolize?

5) Is the reader left with a positive or negative feeling? Explain and defend your response.

6) What is Bradbury's purpose?

7) How does the story “The Pedestrian” fit into our utopia discussion?

You don't need to write out lengthy response or type your answers.  You can just write some quick responses on the copy of the story itself.  Be prepared to discuss them tomorrow in class.

Symbolism is another concept which we broached today.  We'll be doing a lot more with it in the coming weeks, so if you don't understand it, be sure to let me know.  We'll spend a piece of Tool Time tomorrow on it just to drive home the meaning.

We looked at commas with introductory clauses (a type of dependent clause) today.  That's two more words you should be familiar with and another piece of punctuation you should try to use all the time.  A quiz sometime this week.

See you soon.