Students handed in their Letter to Grandmother assignments today.
Today we discussed how Bruno, the protagonist, can be understood in another way. He can be understood as a symbol -- he symbolizes all the German people during World War 2. Bruno, like most German people, does not know what is going on in concentration camps. In fact, most German people during the war, willfully refused to believe anything bad was happening to Jewish people.
I handed back our work on transition words and then we worked on another transition work exercise.
We continued reading our novels. We finished chapter 11, read chapter 12 and 13.
The author gave us, as readers, a pretty clear example of foreshadowing in chapter 12 (the boys could, if they choose, go under the fence).
We also chatted about the final exam: it is primarily a skills exam. There is only PART of the final exam you can study. You can study our notes on plot, setting, character, theme, and poetic devices. There will be no specific exam questions on the novels, stories, and poems we've read.
Oh, and the class was at first worried and then amused with Dawson: it looked like he was storming out of the class, but really he was just answering the door.
