NY Landscapes: October 8, 2018

Focus: What role does the New York landscape play in this part of the novel?

1. Warming up with a map of NY's boroughs, and image of Central Park, and a virtual tour of the Empire State building

The Boroughs

Central Park

Making Predictions:

• Why might Foer include a chapter about an imaginary 6th borough?

• Why might the Empire State Building symbolize in the story?

2. Reading ELIC, pages 208-259; tomorrow's leaders may use this time to prepare

HW:

1. For TOMORROW: Read pages 208-259 in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; complete your next journal entry.

If you miss a Fishbowl, you must make it up. Read over the syllabus and blog comments, then add an extended comment to the class blog. 

2. We will continue our READING JOURNAL CONFERENCES in class next week. Click HERE for the rubric.