Sunday, May 22, 2011

enders game notes and more

- 3rd person omniscient - narrator all knowing
- multiple perspectives
. dramatic irony
- dialogue
. description - sparce
action - developes characters

Style – What do you know about the types of words and sentences author uses?
1-2-pgs^
-          Lenghth
-          Sophistication
-          Punctuation
-          Grammar
-          Complexity
PARTS OF SPEECH
-          Verbs – active – “got to kill some buggers”
Static – “ender tried to imagine the little device missing from the back of his neck”
-          Adverbs m –
-          Adjectives – “that I’ll just be a normal kid now”
 SETTING FOR ENDERS GAME

Battle school:
- space ship/ station
-  battle school
Earth:
-          Home
-           School
-          North Carolina

Virtual:
-          Internet servers
-          Fantasy game: monitors and disk computers

WHY DO SETTINGS MATTER?
-          Info
-          Genre – creates story e.g. whether it is science fiction or not
-          Mood – feeling and emotion
-         

STUDENT SPEAK TO TEACHER GEEK

PETER
LEARN MORE ABOUT ENDER’S CHARACTER/ PERSONALLITY
BAD GUY = ANTAGONIST
GOOD GUY = PROTAGONIST
SPEAKS = DIALOGUE
ROUND CHARACTER – REALITY/EMOTIONAL PERSON – PERSONALLITY
FLAT CHARACTER = OPPOSITE ^
TECHNIQUES
ENDERS MOTIONS ABOUT VIOLENCE – VIOLENCE
                                                                      SITUATION
                                                                      VIOLENCE = BAD

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