Polished Piece

A few updates/reminders.  Please check out the MLA handout for how to properly format your paper.  Remember that this is an IMPROVEMENT on your original essay. You need to extend your piece a bit and you should be able to complete 3 pages (double spaced).

Also, if you are citing quotes from Eighner/Elizabeth and/or adding other sources, please check this handout out on sourcing protocol.

Final polished copy is due MONDAY OCTOBER 26

Plato HW

Terms, and Vocab for Wednesday, Oct 21

Read Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” multiple times.

Term: Oxymoron

Allegory

Vocab:

Virtue Innate Hedonism Abstraction

Indulgence Asceticism Impediment              Divine

Paltry Keen Inversion Dazzled

In your reading journal, focus on the following things:

1. Vocabulary you need to know to understand the allegory.  Collect as many words from the reading that you need and gather their definitions.
2. Respond to question 4 on page 299.  There is no formal length requirement, but fully think through your answer. Anything less than a paragraph would be too short.
3. Explain in a paragraph why this is called an allegory.  You might identify the allegorical representations and the message.

Complete SOAPSTone, of course ☺

Project rubric

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Voice

If you are so inclined, read this piece I wrote 5 years ago about the first time I was able to be a working journalist in the University of Michigan pressbox.

Alexie - 10/14

• New terms:
• zeugma: a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g.,John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ).

• antithesis:
• a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
• a contrast or opposition between two things.
• a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as “hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins”

• induction: Inductive reasoning is often used in applications that involve prediction, forecasting, or behavior. Here is an example:

• Every tornado I have ever seen in the United States rotated counterclockwise, and I have seen dozens of them.
• We see a tornado in the distance, and we are in the United States.
• I conclude that the tornado we see right now must be rotating counterclockwise.
• So in inductive reasoning, you take premises that are or have proven to be continuously true, and you make a claim based on those premises.

• analogy: a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
• anecdote: a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

• Over the next couple of weeks make sure you have these words: Vocab: alloy/unalloyed, nostalgia, adulation, prodigy, oddity, monotony, single-mindedness, sullen, ambivalence, empathy, pensive, sentimental, morose, dejected

Ericsson - The Ways We Lie

Ericsson, “The Ways We Lie”

SOAPSTone

Journal: Describe the consequences of a day in which you told no lies, one full page, minimum.

Terms: polysyndeton, asyndeton, cumulative sentence, colloquialism, Rhetorical Question

Vocabulary: omission, façade, lively, didactic, moralistic, provocative, sarcastic, acerbic, nonchalant, confrontational, informal, functional, deflection, groupthink, cliché, delusion

Terms Review: hyperbole, metaphor, personification, metonymy

General Review: run-on sentence, complex sentence