1. Quiz: Based on the events taking place in the novel, what is this novel "really about"? Use one or two events from the novel as evidence for your answer.
2. Let's look at part of the essay one assignment regarding integrating 'outside' perspective(s) into your paper. How can you use other texts/perspectives/frameworks to understand the riots we've studied and read about? How can you best integrate this paragraph into your thesis statement and essay?
3. Looking ahead to the Essay One Peer Review: BRING THREE COPIES of your draft.
4. Constructing paragraphs that employ evidence. Let's return to the college paragraph structure. Now let's build up a paragraph around a passage from The Destruction of Gotham as a model.
5. Reading Groups: Together with 2-3 other students, assemble into discussion groups for The Destruction of Gotham. In your groups, complete the following tasks:
a. Name the top five plot events in the novel up to page 92.
b. Establish who is and is not a 'sympathetic' character (who are we supposed to identify with? What are we supposed to feel toward the main characters?).
c. Identify one passage (with page number) that is about "the urban" experience in New York, and/or life in New York, at the time the novel was written.
d. Identify one passage (with page number) that you believe offers insight into the overall 'meaning' of the novel.
6. Explain what you believe 'the novel is actually about.'
7. Let's process some of your findings.
8. Return to the handout passage from class ("Reserve Army of Labour.")
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