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Literature Can Change Your Life!

Literature Can Change Your Life!. Peekskill 9 th Grade Summer Reading Assignment. Literature Can Change Your Life!. Focusing Activity/DO NOW: Think of how YOU read in your daily life. How does reading affect you as an individual?

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Literature Can Change Your Life!

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  1. Literature Can Change Your Life! Peekskill 9th Grade Summer Reading Assignment

  2. Literature Can Change Your Life! • Focusing Activity/DO NOW: Think of how YOU read in your daily life. How does reading affect you as an individual? What are some experiences you have gone through that have been influenced by reading?

  3. Literature Can Change Your Life! • There are several different types of literature you will encounter as a reader… • Fictional Literature • Drama (plays and theatrical performances) • Short Stories • A story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel

  4. Literature Can Change Your Life! • Novel • A fictitious book of length, typically depicting characters and action with some amount of realism • Nonfiction Literature • Nonfiction is the telling of a story or subject area as fact

  5. Literature Can Change Your Life! • Personal Journal Entry • Writing about oneself and one’s goals, dreams and aspirations • Biography • An account of someone's life written by someone else • Autobiography • An account of a person's life written by that person

  6. QAR ~ Question Answer Relationships • What are the different levels of questioning? • Right there (literal) • Think and search (inferential) • On your own (critical)

  7. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood "Of course, Coors isn't crank or coke or crack.   And Heineken isn't heroin.   And vodka isn't Valium.   "And nothing that's mixed with cranberry juice will score you respect with the folks who cop drugs in the public bathroom in Tompkins Square Park.   But don't tell that to my brain because when I'm drunk, it purrs with the ecstasy of being thoroughly high . Amstel Light is my upper and my downer, it is my euphoric bump, my sweet nod into vagueness, the hallucinogenic that contorts my world into one that's worth living in.” • Literal – What is the author’s “upper and down” • Inferential – How does the author escape the pains of everyday life? • Critical – How will the author’s behavior cause problems to arise, especially towards those around her?

  8. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood • Written by KorenZailckas (Penguin, 2006) • Autobiography about a young girl who begins drinking at age 14 and finds her life slowly spiraling dangerously out of control. Koren chronicles her real life experiences of alcohol poisoning, insignificant abusive relationships and depression as she battles her personal demons

  9. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

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