E.B. White

E.B. White:  

Due Tuesday, March 7

SOAPSTone

Focused review terms: Parallelism, metaphor, personification, description, simile, parataxis

Vocab: prominent, subordination, coordination, qualification, progeny, exhilaration, copious, accumulation, gunwale, mere, startled, rapt, anticipation

Journal/essay: Choose one and write an essay response.  Clearly, this will be longer than the traditional journal.

1. Construct a thesis and write an essay about the nature of epiphany.  Use the text of White’s essay and that of two of the following to support your thesis:
1. Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”
2. Woolf’s “The Death of the Moth”
3. Vowell’s “Shooting Dad”

Recall a special place that you regard as fondly as White does the lake in Maine.  Write an essay imitating E.B. White that describes that place and delivers a personal insight.

Vowell

Sarah Vowell, “Shooting Dad”:

SOAPSTone, avoid one or two word answers.  Give thought and express your ideas fully.  

Vocab: Unabashed, wistful, acerbic, self-deprecating, nostalgic, bicker, earnest, tongue-in-cheek,

escalate, lathe, rural, labyrinth, zealous, irreconcilable, culminate, forlorn, indictment, self-abnegation, elicit, philanthropic, indigence, vitality, submerged tenth

Terms: litotes, understatement, cumulative sentence, allusion, anecdote, zeugma, paradox, oxymoron, antithesis, subjunctive No Journal (you have a lot of vocab and terms, so take a break ☺)

Mairs HW - Due Wednesday Feb 15

Read Nancy Mairs’ “On Being a Cripple”

SOAPSTone, please move beyond one word answers if you have been oversimplifying.

Terms (mostly review): apostrophe, irony, paradox, antithesis, understatement, process analysis (mode), anecdote

Vocab: acute, derision, abject, aversion, bleak, privation, wretchedness, Pollyanna

Journal: Respond to question 4 on page 256 in a one-page reflection.

Staples HW - due Tuesday Feb 7

Homework:   Read “Just Walk on By: Black Men in Public Space” by Brent Staples

1. Review the following terms:
1. Abstract
2. Parallel syntax
3. Understatement
4. Irony
5. Paradox
6. Analogy
7. Allusion
2. Review or find the following vocabulary:
1. Menacing (ly)
2. Unwieldy
3. Lethal (ity)
4. Contempt
5. Detachment
6. Disdain
7. Reproach
3. SOAPSTone
4. Journal: Respond to questions 2 and 4 on page 386 in full page journal.

Novel Assignment semester 2

Please read through the assignment and remember that I need your novel selection by MONDAY FEBRUARY 6.