1. Socio- Cultural Context
IRP and Short Story

2. Agenda Submit The Pedestrian Annotations
Submit The Pedestrian Questions (If you do not have them complete then you must come to room 206 at lunch today, otherwise I will not take them on any other day than today.
Good Copy of Short Story
Socio- Cultural Context
Identites- W. D Valgardsen

3. Learning Target: Students will be able to define and explore the socio cultural context of any given text with confidence.

4. Short Story Writing

5. Short Story Rubric 1 2 3 Descriptive Language Characterization
Minimal use of descriptive writing. Use of imagery is limited and unvaried.
Descriptive language is not consistently used, but there are clear and generous passages of visual imagery.
Imagery is used throughout the short story and contributes to a specific tone.
Characterization
Direct characterization is used to describe Leonard. Other characters are either not present or solely flat with little characterization.
Direct characterization is utilized to create a specific character other than Leonard Mead.
Both indirect and direct characterization is used to create a character other than Leonard.
Plot Structure
Plot structure is confused with no inciting incident or clear falling action. It is rushed.
There is a clear beginning, middle and end. Rising action/ falling is drawn out. Rather imbalanced.
Clear beginning, middle and end with effective pacing.
Conventions of Writing
Grammar and spelling errors are distracting to the reading process. No variation in sentence length.
Few grammar and spelling mistakes are made. There are a few run on sentences, but an attempt at varying the sentences is made.
Grammar and spelling are sound with varied sentence structure.

6. Socio-Cultural Context

7. Defining our terms….
Society and Culture: Every book that you read makes an effort to create both of these. It is how the author creates the world that the characters live in.
Context: Is vital for the reader’s understanding of how the characters live within this world and why it is important that it is ONLY this world that they can live in.
You are no different. Where we come from is vitally important to who we are!!
Draw a picture of a home and hold it up for me to see when you are done.
Your associations with “home” are influenced by the social and cultural context of your life.

8. China
Mexico
Gobi Desert
Greece
India
Germany
Malaysia
Ethiopia

9. Our World- narrowing it down
Neighbourhoods in our Community?
For each neighbourhood there is a distinct personality and set of forces that influence you whether you like it or not.

10. Defining our terms
Society: a body of individuals living as members of a community.
Culture: the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group:
the youth culture; the drug culture.
the sum total of ways of living built up by a group of human beings and transmitted from one generation to another.

11. Elements of Society (Organizations) Elements of Culture Language Food
Economics 1. 2. 3.
Government
Education
Social Groups
Common interest/ beliefs/ proximity

12. Context
All of this influences your characters

13. Live Free or Die Hard.
Blurb: Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: "Hysterically...entertaining."
Actual written line:
"The action in this fast-paced, hysterically overproduced and surprisingly entertaining film is as realistic as a Road Runner cartoon."

14. Ms. McKee’s socio Cultural context
Facts:
Born and raised in Halifax (Spyrfield, Downtown Halifax and then Clayton Park)
Multi- Cultural High School
Lived in the valley for two years.
Moved around a lot (a lot of different elementary schools)
Was in junior high when 9/11 happened
Maritimer
Facebook didn’t exist when I was in high school. Cell phones were for emergency phone calls.
Irish and Scottish background with some Newfie on my mom’s side.
What conclusions
can you draw? (Influence)

15. Now it’s your turn…
Time and Place
Culture List

16. IRP Entry Outline
Intro: Define Socio- Cultural Context. Provide context for the quote that you have chosen.
Quote: Time/ Place/ Indirect Characterization
Body Paragraph One: How did the era influence your character?
Body Paragraph Two: How did the physical place/ culture influence your character?
Conclusion: Could the events and characters of this novel occur in any other world/ context? Why/ why not?
Choose pieces of the pie that have been shared
with you about the context.
How does it influence your character?
Language
Culture
Country/ Region
Food
Technology

17. Identities- W. D. Valgardson

18. Reflective Writing Entry
Have you ever been misidentified? How did it make you feel?
Ex. Someone thought I was from Ontario when I was visiting and I responded with a: Nooooooo
How can you prove your identity?
Is there anyway to prove your identity without a document?
Have you ever been stereotyped?
What was the experience and how did it make you feel?
Did it make you question anything about yourself or make you realize something?

19. Identities
As you read I want you to annotate for Socio- Cultural Context (specifically)
What kind of neighborhood and family does he come from?
Do we know his location?
Where did he end up?
What did he notice about his surroundings as he drove?
How does his world influence him?
Does it have an effect on the conflict of the story?
Does this conflict or plot sound familiar in any way? Does this happen in real life?

20. Protagonist

21. Literary device of the day
Irony
Situational Irony: irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.
Verbal Irony: irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.

23. Verbal

24. Can you think of any yourselves?

26. What is the irony in Identities?

27. Close reading questions

28. What is a Schema??? - a representation of something, often associated with blueprints- the plan for the production of a mass quantity of items.

29. Agenda Learning Target:
You will be able to use images to convey the meaning of the short story Identities.
You will be able to thoughtfully organize a response to a critical thinking question by using quotes from the text and conforming to MLA standards.
Complete Instagram Assignment (5 images and captions) and submit via the google classroom
Type up your critical thinking question using MLA standards. (use google docs for this).
Both assignments are due on Tuesday if not completed in class today.

30. Critical Thinking Question

31. Theme
The critical thinking question asks you about theme so you must have a direct answer to this question in your first paragraph.
Remember: I am giving you a topic (Identity) and it is now your job to tell me what the short story’s opinion about identity is.
If you have generally talked about a theme, but do not have a theme statement in your first paragraph then try to write one as the last sentence of your first paragraph.
The rest of the answer will then be your explanation and proof that you are right.

32. Topic Sentences… Each paragraph should have a topic sentence.
What is the main idea in this paragraph? What should I learn after reading it?
Ex. Topic Sentence: Dogs make wonderful pets because they help you to live longer.
The topic is "dogs make wonderful pets" and the controlling idea is "because they help you to live longer.“
Ex. Topic Sentence: Crime in poverty-stricken areas occurs as a result of a systemic discrimination.
The topic is "crime in poverty stricken areas" and the controlling idea is "systemic discrimination."

33. But Wait, how do I use a quote?
1. Topic Sentence to lead into the quote
Ex. Harrison Bergeron is directly characterized at many points throughout the short story in order to raise expectations and highlight the hyperbolic nature of the society as a whole.
2. The Quotation
Ex. The newscaster announces Harrison’s escape and directly characterizes him as “a genius and an athlete, is under-handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous.” (3)
3. Relevance
Ex. The announcer does not leave much to the imagination in order to strike fear into the viewing public. The direct characterization is in service to the ‘equal’ public and their mental handicaps.

34. How do I use it in a sentence?
A quote can NEVER be on its own.
“Signal Phrases”
1. A complete sentence followed by a colon and then the quote.
Demeter is not actively responsible for the plant’s growth, but passively so: “…….”
2. Writing an incomplete sentence, followed by a comma and then a quote.
The author shows that Demeter is seen as passively responsible for the plant’s growth saying, “…..”
3. Writing a statement that ends in “that” and then a quote.
Demeter’s passive responsibility in the plant’s growth is clear when the author states that “…..”

35. Vocab for your leads
Shows

36. Ica reminders: Different Types of Characters Elements of Plot
Point of View
Conflict
NO NOTES AVAILABLE TO YOU DURING THE ICA.

37. Annotation Agenda Color Coding for: Characterization (indirect/direct)
Literary Devices
(Metaphor, Imagery, Hyperbole,
Personification, Simile etc)
Personal Contributions
Characterization (indirect/direct)
Setting
30 minutes to finish ICA for The Kayak
If you feel you are done then have you considered:
Assuming that I have not read the short story
Major vs. Minor Conflict
Author’s Bio (ipads)
Climax of the story- justify your choice
Revisiting Google Classroom
Submitting work
Self Selecting a Short Story

38. Submitting Work
IRP’s are due today. PUT THEM IN MY FOLDER AT THE FRONT
Staple it together
Critical Thinking Question (typed and submitted)
If you have it pass it in. Monday is the hard deadline!!

39. The Pedestrian 3. His Brightly Lit Home: 6. If there are no writers…
Enlightenment
6. If there are no writers…
then there is nothing new.

40. Short Fiction Essay
You will be self-selecting a short story to write your essay on.
The only thing I want you to focus on today is finding a story and beginning to annotate (if possible).
Your essay will be directed at what the theme of the story is and how the author wrote the story in such a way as to develop this theme (Characterization, Literary Terms, Point of view etc)
You may choose from the list on my website.
I have some hard copies at the front of the room, but only take those after you know for sure that you are going to stick with the short story.