Homework: Parents/guardians, please assist your child with
today’s homework.
Option 3
Focus: What inspired Walter Dean Myers to write Monster? Part
1
In the beginning, there was a boy. A distracted, disruptive
boy — a bad boy, his teachers said. A tall, athletic boy who fought with other
kids and threw books around the classroom and talked when he wasn’t supposed
to. A boy who stumbled over his words but moved with perfect grace on the
basketball court. A boy who read voraciously — Mark Twain, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Samuel Coleridge, Charles Dickens, Dylan Thomas, Honoré de Balzac,
James Joyce — even after he dropped out of Stuyvesant High School in New York.
A boy whose questing intelligence was engaged in a long and complicated
conversation with the books he read, books that made him feel more real than
his real life did but that were also silent about black boys like him.
Why do you think Walter Dean Myers wrote Monster? Do you think his personal life had something
to with him writing the novel? Do you
think people turn out the way they do because of how they grew up? Explain
Option 2:
Focus: What
inspired Walter Dean Myers to write Monster? Part 1
In the
beginning, there was a boy. A distracted, disruptive boy — a bad boy, his
teachers said. A tall, athletic boy who fought with other kids and threw books
around the classroom and talked when he wasn’t supposed to. A boy who stumbled
over his words but moved with perfect grace on the basketball court. A boy who
read voraciously — Mark Twain,…Charles Dickens… — even after he dropped out of
Stuyvesant High School in New York. A boy whose…intelligence was engaged in
…conversation with the books he read, books that made him feel more real than
his real life did but that were also silent about black boys like him.
1. Explain how Walter Dean Myers used to
be when he was in school. How did he behave?
2. What was one strength and one
weakness he had?
3.Even
though he loved to read, what was one problem he had with books?
4. Why do you think he wrote Monster? No
right or wrong answer.
Option 1:
In the
beginning, there was a boy. A distracted,..bad boy, his teachers said.
1. How did Walter behave in school in
the beginning?
A tall,
athletic boy who fought with other kids and threw books around the classroom
and talked when he wasn’t supposed to.
2. List 2 examples of bad behavior in
the classroom.
A.
B.
A boy who
stumbled (stuttered) over his words but moved with…grace on the basketball
court.
3. How did he play basketball?
A boy who read voraciously (a lot)— even after
he dropped out of….High School…
4. What good habit did he keep after
school?
A boy
whose…was engaged in …conversation with the books he read, books that made him
feel more real than his real life did but that were also silent about black
boys like him.
5. How did books make him feel?
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