PAAE: 1-23

Free write
Step 1: Think of a significant experience from 7+ years ago.
Step 2: In 6-8 sentences, describe the experience. This is a good time to practice showing not telling. Use your present voice as you remember
Step 3: In 6-8 sentences, describe the experience, but capture the voice of your age when it happened. This is where your vocabulary and sentence structure and tone should match your younger age.
Step 4: How do age and reflection change our experience of an event? How do age and reflection express express themselves in our writing?

Discussion
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. — Degas

Let's look at some artwork

1. Let's look at the narrator and how he is telling his story.

• Tone?
• Dominant Impression?
• What details are conveyed and how?

2. Goethe's Theory of Color
3. The relationship between Max and his father is somewhat tenuous. Why doesn't Daniel want Max to inherit the family's art gallery? Why did Daniel make Max rehearse the art of the gallery's past exhibits?
4. What insights about the family do we gain from Rose, our first outsider looking in?
5. When does Max speak in art & music? (find specific examples) What does this reveal about his character?

PAAE: it begins

Free write:
In what way does memory influence our identity? YES, I want you to write a SPA paragraph on this topic. NO, I am not collecting this. But YES, I want you to write with structure and thought.

Let's look at the novel
First section: The 3-read (1. class, 2. silent, 3. class)

What kind of tone does the narrator create?
What is your dominant impression of the narrator?
What kinds of details does he convey?