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The Road

This instructional guide focuses on utilizing the close reading technique of dialectical writing to analyze Cormac McCarthy's novel, "The Road." Through structured exercises, students will engage with quotations and concepts to explore the narrative's themes and character motivations. The method involves collaborative writing, prompting critical thinking, and facilitating discussions to develop richer, more profound essays. By reflecting on their insights and observations, students will deepen their comprehension and interpretation of the text, enhancing their analytic writing skills.

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The Road

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  1. The Road Cormac McCarthy Working with your topic/elements quotations

  2. Objectives: • To use “probing the text” close reading technique of dialectical writing and written conversation to explore the meaning of the novel  to develop longer,deeper, and better essays.

  3. Probing Procedure, part 1 • Take out the copy that is blank on the right hand side. From your topic charts, you have “gathered” material from the book into column one. • Staple your own paper with the blank side on a left hand page of your WTJ. • Draw a line down the center of the opposite page horizontally to create 4 columns with the far left hand column being your quotations. • Random groups.

  4. Pass your WTJ to your neighbor on the left • Neighbor, Read the quotes in column one, and then in column 2, answer the following prompt in prose form as a continuous paragraph: What do these quotations tell the story of? • Keep thinking and writing until I call time. • It’s okay if you go onto a second page later in the notebook if necessary. • Please don’t stop. • Please don’t talk.

  5. Probing Procedure • Again, pass the WTJ to the neighbor on your left. • Read columns 1 and 2, then answer the following prompt in column 3: Why does Cormac McCarthy send the man and the boy on this journey?

  6. Column Four Prompt: Process writing • Pass the WTJ back to the owner. • Original writer, read the entries in columns 1, 2 and 3. Consider your own observations from your other paper with your comments on the quotations you selected. • In column 4, answer this prompt: Where is your thinking right now?

  7. Sharing • What happened? New insights? Changes of mind? New questions? • Discuss in pods • Discuss with class • Please turn in your other paper with your comments/observations before you leave today. • Tomorrow you will work with your same topic partners/groups.

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