To be ready for next week, 12/9-13

For Monday, please have a rough draft here of your creative writing piece modeling Eudora Welty's "Listening to Words."  We will be discussing and editing on Monday, so this should be a full draft.

For Tuesday, 12/10, please read and take notes on Chapter 5: Rhetoric and the Reader, pp. 126-138, the focus chapter for this unit.

For Wednesday, 12/11, please read  Malcolm X "Learning to Read" and write a comparison between this piece and Frederick Douglass' piece.

Vocabulary Words for this unit:
1. Persona
2. Efferent reading
3. Aesthetic reading
4. Stance
5. Irony
6. Implied metaphor
7. Simile
8. Hyperbole
9. Paradox
10. Colloquialism
11. Understatement
12. Euphemism
13. Didactic
14. Repetition
15. Parallelism
16. Allusion
17. Dialect
18. Repertoire
19. Scholarly language
20. Standard language

We will use these words throughout the unit in discussion and writings.
Assessment on these terms on Wed., 12/18