Project Summary: UNIT THREE: INTRODUCTION TO PERSUASION THROUGH LITERARY ANALYSIS This three-week unit (weeks 9-11) will be a brief, mini-introduction to the basic elements of literature and how the rhetoric of persuasion can be and often is a critical component of writing academic essays about literature. CEREMONY: Begin to read the novel week.You should plan to read the first 1/2 of the novel during Week 9. CEREMONY links: Review these links, below. The questions for your W9DQ's/Roundtable are based on these links. I also recommend you bookmark these links to use as reference 1. Review this handout on "literary elements." We'll be focusing on important elements such as character, plot, symbolism, setting and theme in this unit, so you should become aware of these terms,what they mean, and how to use the language of literary elements in your discussion of Ceremony in your DQ's and also in Essay 3. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/575/01/ (Links to an external site.) 2. Watch the youtube video interview of author Leslie Marmon Silko, below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV1S7pWKr74 (Links to an external site.) Now, read another interview with Silko, below. http://www.altx.com/interviews/silko.html (Links to an external site.) 3. Begin to review all of the links on the Sparknotes website for Ceremony, which provides an excellent breakdown of the unique, non-linear plot structure, characters, settings, and other important literary elements that comprise this amazing and classic novel, including the use of the Pueblo Indian Creation story rendered as a long poem woven into different parts of the novel. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/ceremony/ (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.) 4. Read a bit about Pueblo Indian People, whose ancestral homelands, and now, federal reservations, are in the Four Corners area in the U.S., in northern and northwestern New Mexico. Silko is Acoma Pueblo, as is Tayo and other Indian characters in Ceremony. http://www.indianpueblo.org/19-pueblos/ 5. Start to find patterns and connections between the characters and events in this novel to people, places, events in today's world, and even in your own personal life, including one important theme: the search for healing from past trauma and for a healthy, integrated identiy and finding a place in the world as a young adult. This is one of the driving impulses of this novel, through the suffering, misplacement, PTSD and healing efforts of Tayo, the novel's mixed-blood protaganist/main character/WW2 veteran.