https://padlet.com/el43397/th0w4nyms7uen15p Made with mirth en-us 2021-09-17 14:19:37 UTC 2021-09-21 14:34:34 UTC hello@padlet.com el43397 https://padlet.com/el43397/th0w4nyms7uen15p/wish/1748879890 CHR 1.A: What Drives the Character(s) to think, feel, and/or act the way they do?

The character in "Eleven" acts the way she does because she is driven by her environment. For example, the environment in her classroom and her just turning eleven greatly play a role in dictating her actions and thoughts.  "Today I wish I was one hundred and two instead of eleven because if I was one hundred and two I’d have known what to say when Mrs. Price put the red sweater on my desk " (pg. 1).  Along with the children in her classroom and the teacher, the sweater interaction gives us great depth into our character showing her emotions, feelings, and actions. "I don’t know why but all of a sudden I’m feeling sick inside, like the part of me that’s three wants to come out of my eyes, only I squeeze them shut tight and bite down on my teeth real hard and try to remember today I am eleven, eleven" (pg. 2).]]> 2021-09-17 14:40:45 UTC https://padlet.com/el43397/th0w4nyms7uen15p/wish/1748879890 el43397 https://padlet.com/el43397/th0w4nyms7uen15p/wish/1748880527 SET 2.A: How do the details in the text convey or reveal one or more aspects of a setting? (Include: Location, Time, year, season, geography, culture)

The details in the text convey that we are in a classroom along with a teacher and other students. After we are introduced to the teacher and her actions, we get that the teacher is mean and bias. We also know that our main character does not want to be eleven but just turned eleven. Overall, the setting is observing a horrible day where the main character is being put on the spot and doesn't want to be at school. "I don’t know why but all of a sudden I’m feeling sick inside, like the part of me that’s three wants to come out of my eyes, only I squeeze them shut tight and bite down on my teeth real hard and try to remember today I am eleven, eleven" (pg.2).]]> 2021-09-17 14:40:59 UTC https://padlet.com/el43397/th0w4nyms7uen15p/wish/1748880527 el43397 https://padlet.com/el43397/th0w4nyms7uen15p/wish/1748881015 SET 2.B: How does the setting affect readers of the text?

Reading "Eleven," we are given that the story takes place at school.  Everyone can relate to being in school. "Mrs. Price says, and she holds the red sweater up in the air for all the class to see" (pg. 2). This affects the readers of the text because everyone has experienced being in a classroom with different people. Another experience that people have been through is embarrassment and anxiousness because these are two feelings that the main character feels during the sweater interaction.]]> 2021-09-17 14:41:10 UTC https://padlet.com/el43397/th0w4nyms7uen15p/wish/1748881015 el43397 https://padlet.com/el43397/th0w4nyms7uen15p/wish/1748881426 STR 3.B: How does the particular sequence of events and the manner in which a text presents those events to a reader affect a reader's experience with the text?

The sequence of events and the way that the text is presented allows us to better connect with the character because the events in which they are presented tie in with the character's day and emotions. It was her thought process and her interaction between her and her teacher greatly affect the reader's experience by giving us a personal experience as if the reader was there. "But when the sick feeling goes away and I open my eyes, the red sweater’s still sitting there like a big red mountain. I move the red sweater to the corner of my desk with my ruler" (pg. 2).]]> 2021-09-17 14:41:20 UTC https://padlet.com/el43397/th0w4nyms7uen15p/wish/1748881426 el43397 https://padlet.com/el43397/th0w4nyms7uen15p/wish/1748881869 NAR 4.A: Who is the narrator of the text? What details convey that?


The narrator of the text is the main character of our story. The details that convey this is the way that she presents herself in first person using terms like "I". "That’s when everything I’ve been holding in since this morning, since when Mrs. Price put the sweater on my desk, finally lets go, and all of a sudden I’m crying in front of everybody" (pg. 3).  We get a better connection with the narrator.



]]> 2021-09-17 14:41:30 UTC https://padlet.com/el43397/th0w4nyms7uen15p/wish/1748881869 el43397 https://padlet.com/el43397/th0w4nyms7uen15p/wish/1748882343 NAR 4.B: How does the narrator's distance from the events of a narrative affect the details and information presented to the reader?

The narrator's distance is that the character is personally involved with the story as it is being told in first person. For this reason, it affects the details and information that the reader is given by putting more emphasis and meaning into what the character does and say. It allows the reader to connect with the character on a personally scale. "Not mine, not mine, not mine. In my head I’m thinking how long till lunchtime, how long till I can take the red sweater and throw it over the schoolyard fence, or leave it hanging on a parking meter, or bunch it up into a little ball and toss it in the alley" (pg. 2).]]> 2021-09-17 14:41:40 UTC https://padlet.com/el43397/th0w4nyms7uen15p/wish/1748882343