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
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Vocabulary Words to Study
Add these words to your current vocabulary list:
synecdoche
metonymy
periphrasis
personification
hyperbole
litote
irony
oxymoron
onomatopoeia
rhetorical question
synecdoche
metonymy
periphrasis
personification
hyperbole
litote
irony
oxymoron
onomatopoeia
rhetorical question
Thursday, March 13, 2014
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.
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.
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Thursday, January 9, 2014
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.
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.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
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:
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 language21. Scheme22. Trope23. Zeugma24. Antimetabole25. Antithesis
Friday, December 20, 2013
Happy holidays!
Hope you have a great Christmas break!
Read To Kill a Mockingbird over break, no annotating required.
Enjoy reading this classic... it is honestly my favorite book ever and I am so happy you will get to experience it also! :)
We will do synthesis essay presentations on the Wed. we return from break, so you will have time to practice and finalize plans with your group during class. See you in 2014!
Read To Kill a Mockingbird over break, no annotating required.
Enjoy reading this classic... it is honestly my favorite book ever and I am so happy you will get to experience it also! :)
We will do synthesis essay presentations on the Wed. we return from break, so you will have time to practice and finalize plans with your group during class. See you in 2014!
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