Eighner HW - Due Friday October 2nd.

Eighner: “On Dumpster Diving”

• Prior to reading: Write down at the top of your journal what words or ideas come to mind when you think of a dumpster diver.  Be candid, concise, and brief.  
• Read and annotate Lars Eighner’s “On Dumpster Diving”
• SOAPSTone
• Journal: Write your journal after reading.  
• How does Eighner make you feel about your own material values?  How do you relate to Dumpster diving and to what he calls the “grab for the gaudy bauble.”
• Make sure you are using journals to practice your craft.  Concise diction is your goal.

Define and Review:

Terms: Refute/refutation, juxtaposition

Term Review: irony, ethos, pathos, logos, tone, (and any others you are still not comfortable with)

Vocabulary: assertion, romantic (in a literary sense), deplorable, practical, destitute, blight, despicable, elevated, satiric, didactic, querulous, authoritative, pragmatic, equity, indifference, consumer, undercut, gaudy, bauble, polemic, + at least 5 of your own from the text

Homework DUE FRIDAY

Rhetoric and Style questions for Frederick Douglass due tomorrow!

9 point rubric sliding scale (30pts)

This is the 9 point rubric we discussed in class. All impromptus will be worth 30 pts and this creates a sliding scale to adjust over the quarters.

Frederick Douglass HW

Douglass Homework:

Prior to reading the essay, write a one-page journal in which you explore your own literacy.  For this, you might recall your first memories with a book, comment on the struggle or ease of learning to read in your experience, or identify the role of reading or writing in your own families.

Read and annotate Frederick Douglass’s essay “Learning to Read and Write.”

Define the following terms: understatement, metonymy, anaphora, counterargument, synecdoche, connotation, denotation

Review: Irony, allusion, figurative language, complex sentence, qualify (as in an argument), chronological sequence

Define the following vocabulary: polemic, portrayal, oppressor, apt, deceptive, shrewd, reproach, indifference, condescending, grudging, depravity, abolitionist, irate, judicious, stratagem, commence, chattel, mere, prudence, vindication

McAvoy's Rant

For those absent today due to holiday -

Please watch this clip:

And then complete a SOAPSTone and the questions that go with the video. Do as much of the sheet as you can.  We will watch the video again tomorrow and I will give you about 10 more minutes to work on the sheet before our discussion.

Angelou HW

Homework - due Wednesday 9/16

Read and annotate Maya Angelou’s “Graduation”.  

SOAPSTone, brief but quality

Write a one-page journal response to question 4 on page 32

Define the following terms: parallel structure, pathetic fallacy, faulty reasoning, metaphor, imagery

     and vocabulary: pedantic, indifferent, detachment, subjective, objective, substantive,

      exposition

Next week: Quiz date TBA, AP style

For Parents who couldn't attend open house

If you were unable to attend open house, please feel free to go through the Google Slides Presentation - Open House and contact me if you have any questions.

Notes and video link

For those of you absent -

Here are your notes and  the video that we watched.  Watch the video shown above and then create your own SOAPSTone.  We will discuss the SOAPSTone in class on Monday.

First assignment UPDATE

In talking to Mrs. Willett, we are making the active reading and 6 critical points due THURSDAY - not Friday.

Syllabus and Remind 101

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