Liberal Arts Education perspectives

Please read Liz Coleman's "A Call to Reinvent Liberal Arts Education" linked here.
While reading consider:
Who is your speaker?  What is her credibility?
What are the main claims Coleman makes?
What is the reasoning behind her argument for change?
Why should we, as an American society, be invested in making a change to the current educational culture?
What is her plan for change?

*Pause here and draw comparisons between Coleman's ideas and Ken Robinson's ideas.

Next, read the follow-up interview with Coleman from 2014.
How is she moving towards making her vision of education a reality?
What is her message to her audience?
How is she trying to influence her audience to affect change and a revolution in education in their own community?

Vocabulary List: Schemes and Tropes

The following is the list of schemes and tropes that we will study this vocabulary unit:
allegory
alliteration
allusion
anadiplosis
anaphora
anthimeria
antimetabole
antithesis
apostrophe
assonance
asyndeton
chiasmus
climax
ellipsis
epistrophe
hyperbole
implied metaphor
irony
litote
metonymy
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
parallelism
parenthesis
periphrasis
personification
rhetorical questions
synecdoche
zeugma

Analysis of essays this week

For this week, we will be spending our time closely analyzing writings completed on exam day.

Tuesday--Work day to ask questions and work on the assignments due this week including:
Wed. & Thurs.-- Peer Rhetorical Analysis Essay is due; we will share these together in class and examine and apply the rubric to student sample essays
Fri.-- Synthesis Essay self-analysis due; we will spend time discussing how to evaluate and utilize sources, and examine and apply the rubric to student sample essays
Mon.-- Multiple choice practice questions from a classmate and vocabulary usage work

To Kill a Mockingbird responses

Over the course of this week, we will be responding to various aspects of speaker, context, and purpose associated with the American novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
Please use THIS DOCUMENT to guide you through this unit.

Timeline of due dates:
Wed., 1/7-- Complete characterization journal (for last names A-E) or narration journal (for last names H-V)
Thursday, 1,8-- Complete speaker journal (all students)
Friday, 1,9-- Complete characterization journal (for last names H-V) or narration journal (for last names A-E)
Monday, 1/12-- Complete passage focus, including reading of the assigned speech, create 10 AP-style multiple choice questions, an annotated answer key, and a paragraph explanation for how the speech relates to the novel.

*For creating AP-style multiple choice questions, please use this link to m.c. question stems.