Bad Boy Ch 9 RL2

What 3 things do you need to determine before you identify the THEME of a story?

• Textual evidence, inferences and background knowledge

• Implicit, explicit and conflict

• Story's plot, characterization, and conflict

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

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How are Subject and Theme different?

• The subject is the topic of the story and theme is the opinion the author expresses on the subject.

• They are the same thing

• The subject is the genre of the story and the theme is the category of the story

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CCSS.RL.7.2

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What is the major theme of Bad Boy: A Memoir

• Reach for your dreams even if there are many obstacles

• Growing up African American in Harlem

• Adoption

• Bullying

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

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What is the major theme of Chapter 9, Sonnets from the Portuguese?

• Walter becoming a writer by identifying with Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her poetry.

• Walter playing basketball and reading poetry.

• Walter realizing that he is intellectually gifted and having the freedom to choose how he wants to use those gifts.

• Walter having to choose which high school he will attend.

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What is the plot of Chapter 9?

• Walter is in the SP class and he is discovering different types of writing styles that are affecting his writing. He is also discovering that he has two different parts of his life: he is a gifted student and loves to play basketball.

• Walter continues to struggle with being bullied in school. His father's depression is really bad and he finds out that his father cannot read. Walter is considering dropping out of school.

• Walter is writing poetry about love and decides he want to have Dorothy Dodson as his girlfriend. He writes her anonymous love poems hoping she will fall in love with him.

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

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How does W.D Myers use characterization in Chapter 9?

• Duplicity (Opposite) The characters are people that have influence Walter to become the young man he inspires to be, even if he is not sure who that person is, for example: His teachers are encouraging him to appreciate his education and he finds out that his father cannot read. His sister Imogene is smart and feisty but not allowed out of the house or to go to school. The boys in his class are just as wildly as he is and do not appreciate their academics, even thought they are brilliant.

• Sameness The characters are people that are similar to Walter. For example, his mother likes to read and write like he does. His classmates are just as smart as Walter and they all come from an impoverished (poor) neighborhood.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

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What is the main conflict in Chapter 9?

• Walter cannot decide if he wants to become a basketball player or a writer.

• Walter is becoming estranged or distant from his family.

• Walter is starting to realize that he is a gifted writer that identifies with other gifted students more than he does with his family or his neighbors.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

Which textual evidence best supports the idea that Walter is trying to figure out who he is?

• "By this time there were two very distinct voices going on in my head, and I moved easily between them."

• "I spent the summer with my time divided between playing basketball and reading."

• "Mrs. Finley's dramatic readings of the English poets were comical, and I went along with laughing at her, but secretly I wanted to be an English poet."

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CCSS.RL.7.2

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Why is the chapter titled Sonnets from the Portuguese?

• By studying these sonnets he begins to improve his writing. He says, "The sonnet form allowed me to make my poems look and feel like real poetry."

• He realizes that he should write about his personal experiences, like Browning had, instead of describing places. He states that reading the sonnets he realized, "the poetry had come from Browning as well as being written by her."

• Walter is studying Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her poetry in school.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

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CCSS.RL.K.6

The line of the poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning from Sonnet 14.. that Walter includes in this chapter, "If thou must love me, let it be for naught Except for love's sake only. Do not say, "I love her for her smile...her look...her way Of speaking gently-for a trick of thought..." What does this mean?

• The writer is saying that she does not want to be loved for her personality or her looks. She wants to be loved because love has a deeper meaning.

• The writer is saying that she is afraid to be loved because love is not forever.

• The writer wants to be loved for her personality and her looks and not because love is wonderful.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6