Nursery Rhyme Presentations

For the sake of fairness, I will give each group/pair/individual about 10 minutes to review the rubric for the presentation and decide what will be presented, who will present what, and how it will be presented in order to perform to the rubric's highest standards.

I do understand that these presentations will probably conclude on Tuesday (our first day back from the extended weekend), but I believe it's better for you to be prepared and comfortable rather than rushed and unsure about the expectations.

HW:

Homework:

Please type or write out your response to item #3 on a separate piece of paper.

1.       Please read “A Small, Good Thing” by Raymond Carver (1983). Click here for story.

2.       Expect a short quiz on Tuesday

3.       In a paragraph (5-7 sentences) analyze the bread imagery in the last paragraph. Relate it to the story as a whole, using specific details from the story to support your answer.

Remember what figurative imagery is: the use of vivid descriptions that often appeal to the senses (touch, taste, hearing, smelling, seeing) for the purpose of describing something else—often something abstract that cannot be depicted literally or directly (for example, Emily Dickinson’s ‘Hope is the thing with feathers’ where she uses bird imagery to discuss the abstract idea of hope)