"Blues Ain't No Mockin' Bird" and More on Characters

Devotional Thought: Jabari Asim's "The Talk"

Quiz: Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockin' Bird"

Notes: Students continued to take notes on literary terms relating to character:

dynamic character
static character
hero/heroine
main character
major character
minor character


The class discussed the course's essential question(What is it?) and genus differentia definitions.

Group Activity: Working in groups of 3-5, students chose to either analyze the characters in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Red-headed League" or Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockin' Bird." They were to make a chart including the following columns:

character names
description
traits
flat/round
static/dynamic
major/minor

Homework: Read Kamila Shamsie's "Our Dead, Your Dead"