"The Evening and the Morning and the Night" by O. Butler

"The Evening and the Morning and the Night"

By Octavia Butler

Open Ended

What is something you would have done at age thirteen to fifteen that you think is crazy now? Explain.

Standard

LAFS.1112.RI.1.2 - Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.  

Multiple Select

Select our objectives for today! Hint: It's all of them!

• Determine 2 or more central ideas

• Analyze how they develop

• Provide objective summaries of text

Essential Question

How does Octavia Butler introduce and develop central ideas throughout the text? Cite evidence analyzing their development.

Identify examples of pacing and their given effects (review of 2.5)

Multiple Choice

Identify the central idea in the following excerpt: "The weird part was, I worked hard, got top grades. If you work hard enough at something that doesn't matter, you can forget for a while about the things that do" (Butler).

• People that work hard will inevitably manifest positive results

• One can work hard at anything to keep their mind preoccupied

• Working hard almost certainly prevents failure

• One can never fail if they work hard, regardless if the pursuit is important

Multiple Choice

Select a detail that supports the central idea that sufferers of DGD clash with the remainder of society?

• "I told him about my visit to the DGD ward when I was fifteen"

• "Fear. Inertia."

• "Most of them don't have two DGD parents"

• "Being around him helped me understand why, against all sanity, two DGDs would talk about marriage. Who else would have us?"

Multiple Choice

Identify the central idea of the following:

"I went to one of my windows and stared out at the weeds. We let them thrive in the backyard. In the front we mowed them, along with the few patches of grass"

• Sometimes things that are often unwanted are of worth

• One must remove anything that is troublesome

• It is preferable to remove obstacles in the way

• Not all obstacles need to be removed

Summarize the most important information we learn on this slide

Multiple Choice

Comprehension Check! Who are the three characters we have met so far?

• Beatrice, Alan, and Rye

• Beatrice, Alan, and June

• Lynn, Beatrice, Alan

• Lynn, Beatrice, Alan, patients

Multiple Choice

Part A: How would you best describe Lynn's feelings towards Beatrice?

• Lynn does not like Beatrice

• Beatrice and Lynn despise one another

• Both trust one another, equally

• All of the above.

Multiple Choice

Part B: Select evidence to support your response that Lynn does not like Beatrice.

• "Study medicine"

• For some reason...what did she think she was doing? Flirting for her age?

• "What just happened?" I asked.

• "What does that have to do--?"

Open Ended

Exit-Ticket: What is the central idea surrounding the disease referred to as DGD throughout the story? Cite evidence in your response. You should have at least 5 sentences here.