By Any Other Name

Yesterday, I collected the character work you have done regarding one of the characters from your novel. You have until tomorrow at the beginning of class to submit something for my feedback. Then, students wrote a bit about how their relationship with their culture/ethnicity affects their daily life, and we read a story called "By Any Other Name," which explores characters and their relationships to different cultures/ethnicities. I asked students to consider the following paragraphs and to comment on their significance: paragraphs 6, 13, 16, 20-21, 25, 37-39 and 45. Our goal here is to explore the importance of these quotations, and to begin to see how these excerpts help us understand the theme of this piece. We will discuss the paragraphs tomorrow, and we will begin to put together our thinking in an attempt to understand characters, their relationships, and the theme of the work.