Title: Out of the Dust
1Out of the Dust
2Throughout the book
- Billie Jos Moment Map
- Syntax Dialectical Journal
3Billie Jos Moment Map
Beginning August 1920 Billie Jo is born. Her
father really wanted a boy.
4Syntax Dialectical Journals
Assertion You need ten examples where Karen Hesses syntax helps add to the meaning of the text Evidence Quote Commentary- How does the syntax add to the meaning of the text? What is the effect of her style and use of language?
Syntax / Name of poem
5Winter of 1934 Venn Diagram
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6Winter of 1934
Assertion Character Trait Evidence Quote Commentary Explanation
Billie Jo
Billie Jo
Dad
Dad
Ma-
Ma
Mad Dog
7Rules of Dining (21)
- What do the Rules of Dining tell you about
Billie Jos family? - Support your assertion with evidence
8Dazzled (24)
- Billie Jo says of Ma, In the kitchen she is my
ma in the barn and the fields she is my daddys
wife, but in the parlor Ma is something
different (24). What does Billie Jo mean by
this? How does Mas piano relate to Billlie Jos
statement? - Explain in detail
9Spring of 1934 Imagery Dialectical Journal
Assertion Draw picture Evidence Quote Commentary Explanation
Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
Image 4
Image 5
10Discussion Questions for Spring 1934
- Apples, dust, wind, fire, a piano--all of these
images are repeated in the text. Why does the
author put them there? How do images enhance the
story? What would it be like without the 'word
pictures'? - Describe Billie Jo's relationship with her ma.
Does any of it seem familiar? How does playing
the piano bring them together while also drawing
them apart?
11Summer 1934- Emotion Dialectical Journals
Assertion Character /Emotion Evidence Quote Commentary Explanation
Emotion 1
Emotion 2
Emotion 3
Emotion 4
Emotion 5
12Pie Graph Summer of 1934
Create a pie graph assigning the percentage of
guilt to each character for the The Accident
(60)
13Questions Summer of 1934
- Who put the kerosene by the stove? How does this
relate to the person that is considered by all as
the guilty party? - What makes a good neighbor? Are Billie Jo's
neighbors good to one another? What are some
examples of how her neighbors help one another?
14Autumn 1934-Character sketch
15Question Autumn 1934
- Why is the art exhibit so important and so
painful for Billie Jo? What does this tell us
about her character? What elements of the story
does the exhibit bring together?
16Winter 1935 - Emotion Dialectical Journals
Assertion Emotion Evidence Quote Commentary Explanation
Emotion 1
Emotion 2
Emotion 3
Emotion 4
Emotion 5
17Question Winter 1935
- Billie Jo says her father "spends long days
digging" (p. 111). How does the digging represent
Billie Jo's relationship with her father? What is
the texture of their relationship? What could
either of them do to save their fragile family?
18Spring 1935
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19Question Spring 1935
- Billie Jo compares her ma to a tumbleweed, while
her father "was more like the sod. / Steady,
silent, and deep" (p. 202). Is Billie Jo more
like her mother or her father in this respect?
What image could Billie Jo be compared to? - The quote is from Summer of 1935 but answer
the question before you get to the summer of
1935, so your answer about Billie Jo is original.
20Summer 1935
- Point of View
- Write the event of the summer of 1935 through the
eyes of a supporting character.
21Question Summer 1935
- Billie Jo says, ". . . if I had any boy court me
/ it'd be Mad Dog Craddock" (p. 153). How do her
feelings about him change as the story
progresses? Is he more than a friend to her? What
are Mad Dog's feelings? He would be interesting
to explore in a Point of View response. - Students sometimes comment on the babies that
appear and disappear in the story the Lindbergh
baby, Franklin, the Dionne babies, the migrant
baby, and the baby abandoned on the church steps.
Is there a connection between these babies? Why
does the author include them in the story? Why
does Billie Jo want to adopt the abandoned baby?
Why does her father refuse? - Why does the man on the freight train give Billie
Jo the photograph of his family?
22Autumn 1935
- What is the theme of Out of the Dust? Prove your
assertion with at least 2 sets of evidence and
commentary.
23Question Autumn 1935
- After reading Out of the Dust discuss how the
realizations of Billie Jo and her family affected
your perspective on your life.