Pre-20th century author presentation READING PIECES

These are the submitted readings thus far...

Francis Bacon
Niccolo Machiavelli (read chapters 1&2)
Thomas More
John Locke (read chapter iv about slavery)

Jonathan Swift
Joseph Addison
Richard Steele

Thomas Jefferson
Mary Wollstonecraft (read the first 6 paragraphs)
Thomas Paine
Benjamin Franklin

Thomas DeQuincey (read pages 7-9)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau

Mark Twain
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Jacobs

G.K. Chesterton
Helen Keller

Vocabulary Words to Study

Add these words to your current vocabulary list:
synecdoche
metonymy
periphrasis
personification
hyperbole
litote
irony
oxymoron
onomatopoeia
rhetorical question

Upcoming work to think about...

Tribute writing is due on Tuesday-- this is open to your own interpretation, be creative!

Contemporary Connections Paper in response to the writings of your pre-20th century author is the final paper for this author.  Rough draft will be due on Thursday.  Please familiarize yourself with the requisites and intentions of this paper so you will be prepared to plan out this writing.  We will discuss it together and answer questions in class on Monday.