Fake Tweets from characters from The Necklace
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My analysis of The Most Dangerous Game
Richard Connell wrote "The Most Dangerous Game" a suspenseful story about a crazy man who hunts people. Connell used foreshadowing clues and made the readers make predictions as he created this unbelievable story about a hunter who was bored hunting regular animals and started hunting humans.
Connell’s story starts with Rainsford, a celebrated hunter, falling off of a yacht and landing on the private island of a rich and blood thirsty hunter, General Zaroff. Rainsford was dismayed and sickened to realize that General Zaroff hunted men and that he was being asked to join in. When he refused to play Zaroff’s game, he became the prey and Ivan, General Zaroff and the dogs began to hunt him. Zaroff gave Rainsford a 3 hour headstart and then proceeded to try to hunt him down. Rainsford was able elude Zaroff and set several several traps. Rainsford killed some of Zaroff’s dogs, his right hand man, Ivan and in the end he killed Zaroff.
The climax of the story occurred when Rainsford refused to hunt with General Zaroff and became the hunted for General Zaroffs’s last great hunt. Connell filled the story with conflicts…
Connell’s story starts with Rainsford, a celebrated hunter, falling off of a yacht and landing on the private island of a rich and blood thirsty hunter, General Zaroff. Rainsford was dismayed and sickened to realize that General Zaroff hunted men and that he was being asked to join in. When he refused to play Zaroff’s game, he became the prey and Ivan, General Zaroff and the dogs began to hunt him. Zaroff gave Rainsford a 3 hour headstart and then proceeded to try to hunt him down. Rainsford was able elude Zaroff and set several several traps. Rainsford killed some of Zaroff’s dogs, his right hand man, Ivan and in the end he killed Zaroff.
The climax of the story occurred when Rainsford refused to hunt with General Zaroff and became the hunted for General Zaroffs’s last great hunt. Connell filled the story with conflicts…
Create a PhotoMovie
I allowed them to choose a story to use as a basis for a photomovie using PhotoPeach.com. They were to included pictures and text that related the story back to the person viewing their photomovie.
I told them that the viewer should be able to get the gist of the story from looking at their movies.
Reflection/Analysis of the assignment:
Some of the movies were AWESOME and the majority were OK. I noticed that many forgot to "tell a story" with pictures and just included pictures with NO story present.
The majority of the kids liked this assignment more than the usual book report.
Oh well. Next time I plan to do the same assignment but stress the need for them to tell a story more.
I told them that the viewer should be able to get the gist of the story from looking at their movies.
Reflection/Analysis of the assignment:
Some of the movies were AWESOME and the majority were OK. I noticed that many forgot to "tell a story" with pictures and just included pictures with NO story present.
The majority of the kids liked this assignment more than the usual book report.
Oh well. Next time I plan to do the same assignment but stress the need for them to tell a story more.
Here are two I created to give them examples of what I expected to see.
The Necklace by Guy de MaupassantThis digital story introduces you to Monsieur and Madame Loisel, a young couple who is in love
The Necklace Digital Story on PhotoPeach
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Thank You M'am by Langston HughesThis is a photomovie describing a short story about a boy and an old woman he encounters.
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Reading Log
A reading log entry must be made for at least 4 of the stories read in class. The log must contain the information below:
- Title and Author
- Significant Events
- Climax
- Conflicts (Man v Man, Man v Self, Man v Nature, Man v Society, etc.)
- Resolution
- Major Characters
- Theme
- Focal reading/literary elements
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Title and Author: The Initiation by Sylvia Plath
Events:
Millicent decides to join a sorority
Millicent talks to Louise about what the sorority is really like
Millicent begins her initiation and has to obey her Big Sister Bev's rules
Tracy spends time with Millicent trying to encourage her to be strong during the initiation process
Bev orders Millicent around and treats her like a servant
Millicent meets the strange little man on the bus who talks about heather birds
Millicent reflects about what it really means to be a member of the sorority and being an ordinary sparrowMillicent realizes that being a part of the sorority is not what she really wants to do, she wants to be a heather birdMillicent completes the initiation process and decides to let the girls know that she doesn't want to joinClimax: Meeting the funny man on the busResolution: Millicent decides not to join the sorority. She realizes that she wants to be an individual and not part of the 'popular group'Major Characters: Millicent - the protagonist who has to decide whether or not to compromise her individuality and be part of a groupBig Sis. Bev - an antagonist who bosses Millicent around and orders her to do embarrassing thingsTracy - Millicent's best friend who gives her support during the initiation processTheme: Being an individual can be more important that being a part of a group.Reading/Literary Elements: The author uses flashbacks to tell Millicent's story. The story starts in the present and then flashes back to the past to give the history.
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Short Story PosterThis poster is for The Initiation
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Unit Focus
My focus for this unit was to get the students to refamiliarize themselves with a variety of literary devices: plot, characterization, theme, etc.
They will be
They will be
- creating photomovies for stories of their choice
- adding to a reading log
- creating a poster (paper and maybe digital)
