Vocabulary for this unit

Vocabulary words for this unit are defined in the "Choosing Words" packet and the glossary of Everyday Use.  Please have these words defined for Monday, 11/30.

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

Welcome and upcoming assignments

Welcome to class for today!  In my absence, please use the time in class to work on the assignments listed below.  We will complete the synthesis prompt tomorrow in class, so focus on other work that needs to be done, beginning with reading and annotating Douglass' piece (due tomorrow).

Read and annotate this piece for Friday, 11/20, recording your responses as you read, or when completed.
Frederick Douglass' "Learning to Read and Write" is in the 100 essays book, also linked below:
Frederick Douglass' "Learning to Read and Write"

Think about... 
DUE Monday, 11/23:
Read and annotate, Malcolm X "Learning to Read"
considering comparisons to Douglass' piece while reading

Memoir Project:
First Reader Response (choose from 1-5) due Monday, 11/23
Second Reader Response (choose another prompt from 1-5) due Mon., 11/30

DUE Tuesday, 12/1
"Superman and Me" by Sherman Alexie