"My Life as a Bat" by Margaret Atwood

"My Life as a Bat" by Margaret Atwood

Analyzing Structural Techniques,

Identifying their Given Effects

Open Ended

Warm-Up: If you could be any animal, what would you be and why?

Standard

LAFS.910.RL.2.5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.  

Multiple Select

Select our objectives for today! Hint: It is all of them.

• Identify the author's structural techniques

• Analyze the structure

• Evaluate the given effects

Essential Question

How does the author's structural techniques impact the overall meaning and create given effects?

Open Ended

A traditional structure for a short story is paragraph form. The story usually begins with an

exposition that introduces the characters and setting.

Scan the page. How is the story's structure similar to traditional story structure, and how does it differ? How does this unusual structure create mystery? (71).

Preview of next question

Think back to sections 1 and 2 and identify the information presented in them. Explain why the writer chose to tell the story in this order. How do the order of events in this section create tension in the text? (73).

Open Ended

Think back to sections 1 and 2 and identify the information presented in them. Explain why the writer chose to tell the story in this order. How do the order of events in this section create tension in the text? (73).

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How does Atwood manipulate time in section 3 of the short story? How does this choice create surprise in the text? (73).

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Pg. 73-74 How does Atwood order the events in section 4 of the short story? How does this create tension in the text?

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Pg. 74 How does Atwood use description to structure section 5 of the short story? How does this structural choice create relief in the text?

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Complete and Pass an achieve article on the first attempt. Here are some ideas but you can always just pick one.

"To the Bat Caves" "A Year with the Bats"

Open Ended

Complete and Pass an achieve article on the first attempt. Here are some ideas but you can always just pick one.

"To the Bat Caves" "A Year with the Bats"