Group+Two

Book Group Template DATE: GROUP #: 2 MEMBERS:Cory Laga, Dan Ressler, Mike Battista, and Ally Gargiulo

For your reading of Montana 1948, book groups will meet four times to discuss the novel and address each aspect listed below. Take notes on your wiki for each of your meetings and save it to your group’s Wiki, noting the date and members names at the top.

This is the reading/book discussion schedule. Be sure you have completed each part prior to the book discussion day.

1) Part One, Friday, March 19th 2) Part Two, Tuesday, March 23rd 3) Part Three, Thursday, March 25th 4) Afterward/Epilogue, Friday, March 26th

Directions: Write your notes for every category below on your group’s wiki space. Be sure to discuss in your groups:

• Imagery/ Symbolism **Why is this not complete?**

__Part 2:__ When David kills the bird I think that this can symbolize how a bird is free and that David doesn't go out of the town a lot unless he is going to his grandparents house. "But once. I shot and killed a magpie. HE was teetering on a branch, his black feathers glistening like oil and his long tail wavering to steady him in the wind"(81).

__Part 3:__ When Frank commits suicide in Wes' basement, I feel that this can be looked at how sometimes when you loose an argument you want to kill yourself.

• Character Behavior or Psychology: For Part one you must focus on characterization of the main characters listed below. 1. What the character says 2. What the character does 3. What others/narrator says about the character** You must use textual evidence for each of these three elements of characterization
 * For each character, discuss all three modes of characterization:

Narrator’s Father does - he dropped his law study to take his faters badge. - knows how to handle tradition says - "thats superstition" (34) - doesn't belive supersistion what narrator says - "my fathers job was a relativly easy one.(16) - shows ppl dont have much respect for him. Narrator’s mother (Gail) does - "worked all day outside" (33) - shows she words hard says - "wes shes burning up you better call frank. - shows she caring what narrator says - "my mother never liked curses" (20) - she is a proper woman

Marie and Ronnie Tall Bear 1. Marie is an Indian woman who likes to joke around and is very loyal to her people. Ronnie Tall Bear is the typical jock that the narrator looks up to. 2. Marie is the nanny or house keeper for the family. Ronnie Tall Bear was an incredible athlete. 3. The narrator looks up to the both of them very much and speaks highly of both of them. Uncle Frank (and Aunt Gloria) Grandfather **Why is this not complete?**

• Interesting Passages (at least two passages, cited in proper MLA format) There was another reason my mother wanted us to leave montana for a tamer region and that reason had to do with me. my mother feared for my soul, a phrase that sounds to me now comically overblown, yet i remember that those were precisely the words she used. (watson 21)

Bentrock did not have its own hospital. the nearest one was almost forty miles away in north Dakota. Bentrock residents usually traveled an extra twenty miles to the hospital in dixon montana. (watson 43)

• Questions/ Predictions you have: The truth will have to come out sooner or later about what is going on it is just a matter of when and where.

Part Two:Everything has been unraveling, this will all take a major turn for the worse. Everyone will be on edge constantly.

Part Three: As the story begins to end everyone is wanting answers and some are finally figuring people out.

• Connections to modern life or your personal life

• Interesting Passages (at least two passages, cited in proper MLA format) "my grandmother, a thin, nervous woman who seldom spoke when my grandfather was present, conentrated during the meal on cutting her ham into small perfect triangles before she ate them." (76)

i watched him and discovered that aldults could like kids, be there yet not be there. as i offten was in school(108

the root cellar had wooden slats over a dirt floor and shelfs stacked deep with jars of home canned pickles, tomatos, rotabaga, apple sauce, and plum and cherry jam.(110)

"my father cleared his thoat."about him and floria not having kids.... you've got to go easy on that. pop. they want kids, they're trying. (71)


 * Why is this not complete?

Part One: Though you guys have descent information for the parts you did complete, you have to be sure that you get all components done in future posts (you will be using this information in a larger project down the road). Please also be sure to use proper MLA citations when using textual evidence. 15/20.**