You read up to the middle of chapter 10 and you worked on the Letter Assignment below (this assignment will be due this week).
Today we began with a review of connecting words and a handout where you connected sentences to make a better paragraph.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas:
Chapter 8
The following paragraph ends Chapter 8:
That
day he sat down with a pen and paper and told her how unhappy he was there and
how much he wished he was back home in Berlin. He told her about the house and
the garden and the bench with the plaque on it and the tall fence and the
wooden telegraph poles and the barbed- wire bales and the hard ground beyond
them and the huts and the small buildings and the smoke stacks and the
soldiers, but mostly he told her about the people living there and their
striped pajamas and cloth caps, and then he told her how much he missed her and
he signed off his letter 'your loving grandson, Bruno'.
Write the letter that Bruno sends to his grandmother, and do it in
a way that reveals your creativity and your understanding of the novel. Use your novel (and your chapter
questions) to help furnish you with details to enhance your writing.
The first paragraph of your letter should deal with the events in
Chapter 8, specifically, the details we learn about Bruno’s grandmother and
grandfather. Be sure to make
reference to the different opinions they have regarding Germany and Hitler’s
leadership.
After this paragraph, your remaining paragraphs can deal with the
information Bruno referred to in the excerpt above, and you may go into other
details to give your letter credibility and creativity. Plan out your work before you dive in
to your writing.
You may choose to adopt a voice[1]
for Bruno that is less naïve than the one presented in the novel, but please
remember that he is only 9.
[1]
“Voice” is
the characteristic speech and thought patterns of a first-person narrator --a
persona. Because voice has so much to do with the reader's experience of a work
of literature, it is one of the most important elements of a piece of writing.
