Homework Due Tuesday, November 6

Read Hatchet Chapters 13 and 14
Write for 10 minutes

We will be writing a lot in the next two weeks. We have discussed many approaches to thinking about Hatchet--parallel stories, symbolism, symmetry, narrative voice, and others. Each day, students will choose from a few different writing prompts. We will write in class, and I will also ask that they write for homework. The idea of these short informal writing assignments is to get the students thinking in terms of having a conversation with themselves, having them ask open-ended questions that they can seek answers for in the text and in their minds.

Students chose topics to explore today; tonight they should continue writing on the same topic, using examples from the text. Though it should be in full sentences, this writing is informal.