Readings for the nature unit

RECORD REACTIONS TO THESE FOUR PIECES, USING THE STEPS BELOW:
1.  Annotate each piece, considering rhetorical devices and the rhetorical triangle.
2.  For EACH piece, record the author's purpose, identifying a claim and supports for this claim.
3.  Record appeals that you see this author using, and the effectiveness of these appeals.
4.  Also, consider counter arguments to this author's claim.

*These readings, annotations, and recorded reactions will be due by Monday, 4/21.

"Our Vanishing Night" by Verlyn Klinkenborg (2008)

Excerpt from Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962)

"Nature" essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849)

"Seeing" excerpt from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (1974)--read first two pages only

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.

Editing Essays

Peer edit of rhetorical analysis essay

Self-Analysis of Synthesis Essay

Today's lesson

Welcome to class!
Due to unforeseen health circumstances at our house, your synthesis presentations will be postponed until tomorrow.
For today's class period, you should do the following:
1.  Please send me your characterization and narration response journals (via email or put in the inbox).
2.  Watch and enjoy the documentary "Hey Boo" all about To Kill a Mockingbird and the author Harper Lee.
3.  For homework, you should complete the SPEAKER response, approximately the same length as the responses completed last night.

Happy 2014!

Hope you are staying warm and enjoying a few extra days of break!
When we return, we will be starting with presentations for our synthesis essay projects.
You will have time to meet with group members and review presentation plan for our first few minutes.
We will also be working on some discussion pieces and responses to To Kill a Mockingbird throughout the remainder of the week.
Tuesday, 1/14, will be our long awaited vocabulary quiz.  Here are the words again, if you would like to get a jump start on review.  The last five words are from Everyday Use (the striped book), pp. 79-81, so please read about those, and we will talk more about all words this week:

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

21. Scheme

22. Trope

23. Zeugma

24. Antimetabole

25. Antithesis