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

Creative Writing assignment & Reading due tomorrow

Hooray for creativity!  :)
Here is the creative writing assignment you will be completing to go along with this unit.
Please read over to get a sense of this assignment, including rubric and due dates (rough draft due Monday, 12/9).

Also, for homework, please read Frederick Douglass' "Learning to Read and Write" in the 100 essays book, pp. 216-221. It is also linked below:
Frederick Douglass' "Learning to Read and Write"

Weekend homework...

Using the vocabulary words (listed below), consider how these apply to The Great Gatsby.
Please write one paragraph about Fitzgerald's chosen ARRANGEMENT of his story, using 3-4 vocabulary words and specific direct reference to the characters/storyline in your explanation.
Next, write a paragraph about Fitzgerald's DICTION (word choice) in the novel, and how that impacts meaning.  Use 3-4 vocabulary words and direct reference (through direct quotes) to the text in your explanation.
Finally, write a paragraph about how Fitzgerald's VOICE comes across in his writing.  Again, use 3-4 vocabulary words and direct reference to the characters/storyline in your explanation.

Finally, consider how the vocabulary words relate to the book from your earlier reading experiences (the one you have been using in class over this week), and/or your social issues book.  This is just to practice with the words, not something you need to write down.

VOCABULARY WORDS
Arrangement
--narration
--exposition
--mode
--setting
--flashback
--narrative intrusion
--pace
--syntax
Diction
--abstract language
--concrete language
--connotation
--denotation
--regionalism
--extended metaphor
--imagery
--symbolism
--personification
--figurative language
--caricature
Voice
--mood
--style
(other words from above also apply)

Arrangement of The Great Gatsby

Today in class, we analyzed the arangement of the book as a whole.  Each pair was assigned a chapter and considered the following for their assigned chapter:
1.  What elements of anticipation, tension, and uncertainty exist in this chapter?
2.  How does this chapter fit into the whole of the book?
3.  What was Fitzgerald's purpose for this chapter?

For homework, please complete these two tasks:
1.  Complete the webquest (The Great Gatsby Treasure Hunt), with focus on the last page, and how knowledge of the context informs your understanding and connections to the book
2.  Write a "tell-off" letter to either a character or F. Scott Fitzgerald himself about something that angered you within the book.  Have fun with this and be creative! :)

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty...

Consider how this quote relates to The Great Gatsby for homework. 

Take some notes for yourself about how Fitzgerald constructs anticipation through:
1.  the characters he has created, and their driving motives
2.  the tension and conflicts he has put into the story
3.  the uncertainties that he does (or does not) fully explain that keep you guessing throughout the story

The Great Gatsby webquest

Please use this address for The Great Gatsby Treasure Hunt webquest:
http://www.huffenglish.com/gatsby/gatsbyhunt.html

#7 b.  "Flapper Jane"
http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/1025/flapperjane.pdf

Reading for next week...

As presentations are underway, you should be working on the following reading assignments:
Read and annotate the following article (DUE WED., 11/6)
"Good Readers and Good Writers" by Vladimir Nabokov (speech delivered in 1948)
Also, read The Great Gatsby, ch. 1-3 (DUE MON., 11/4)