Page 4 "The Street That Got Mislaid"
Completion requirements
Page 4 Reading for Character
Annotating
Annotation is an effective reading strategy to help you understand information you read.
As you read:
- highlight key pieces of information from the text
- record your thoughts to make connections with the material
- pay attention to details and think about what the text means
Perhaps you will use this information to answer a question, include in a reflection, or discuss the story with someone else.
How to Annotate
Following are some ways to annotate a story:
| Imagine |
What can you sense (sight, taste, touch, smell, hear) from the illustration or text? |
| Ask Questions |
Give yourself a focus for reading by asking questions such as
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| Make Predictions |
Analyze the title and illustrations for ideas and predict what the story may be about. |
| Make a Connection |
Make a text-to-self, text-to-text, or text-to-world connection.
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| Read the short story "The Street That Got Mislaid" by Patrick Waddington, SightLines 8, page 4 . Annotate as you read. |
“I make mistakes; therefore, I exist.”
Marc initially believes all-knowing power is contained in the machine humans have constructed: government filing systems. If he were living in the present day, he might feel that the Internet or Google ‘knows everything’. He ascribes his purpose and existence to human government. “None of that is evidence,” he said. “....If my cards didn’t say so, you wouldn’t exist and Oven Street wouldn’t either. That, my friend, is the triumph of bureaucracy.”
Initially, he feels this information is not given the respect it deserves. “They might despise him as a lowly clerk, but they needed him all the same.”
However, the filing cabinet or the Internet does not control reality, represented by Green Bottle Street. The government does not remember the past of Green Bottle Street and does not determine the future of Green Bottle Street. The filing system, or human machine, has lost information. To make mistakes, therefore, is human and to recognize this is humility, the beginning of wisdom.
Even though Marc values power (for knowledge is power), Marc feels lonely. He feels cut off from real life. This causes him to ask himself the following questions…
What does Marc believe is important to live a happy and rewarding life?
"Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" – TS Eliot
- To devalue human information and value more highly wisdom and knowledge?
- To build a relationship with someone who cares that he exists?
- To preserve beauty and truth in art (Miss Hunter, Mr. Hazard, Mr. Desselin and Miss Trusdale are the last of a cultural family)?
- To connect the dots of life humbly and well?
- To reconnect with reality?
4.4 Self-Assessment: Character Types
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Self-Assessment: "The Street That Got Mislaid" 1. Identify the protagonist and antagonist in "The Street That Got Mislaid." 2. Identify the following character types in "The Street That Got Mislaid."
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Show What You Know
In your downloaded assignment file for Lesson 3, complete Sections 1, 2, and 3. Be sure to save your work. |
When you have completed all parts of Assignment 3,
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