Journal Entry 10-8-19
Today the students continued with their study of “Shooting an Elephant.” The goal of the day’s lesson was to get the students thinking about the primary focus behind the short story. A lot of students believed the focus to be on Western Imperialism, which is correct, but their reasoning and evidence needed help. To get my students to understand how to use the text as evidence, I showed them the various moments where the students could use Orwell’s language choice to examine criticism. Many of the students quickly picked up on the idea of language as evidence and they began to find their own pieces of evidence.