Vowell - due Wednesday

Read Sarah Vowell's "Shooting Dad." Note: if you are using the 4th edition, this piece is not in the book.

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

NOTE - HW will NOT be collected for Vowell. I WILL collect discussion questions from Thursday.

Mairs

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.

MacBeth

Mrs. Bates and Mrs Lang at Salem have organized a trip to see MacBeth at Stratford on Thursday May 12.  It is open to uperclassmen IB and AP students.

-- Cost is $60 and includes the bus and ticket.  Students will need to bring money for lunch and dinner.  The payment from the student must be in cash or a check made to PCCS in an envelope labeled with his or her name, English teacher, and contact info.  Payments can be delivered to Shelley Bates in Salem room 2204 or Dayna Lang in room 2302.

-- The trip departs at 7am and returns at 10pm.  Band students will not be able to attend because they have a concert that night.

-- We got the best possible seats for the student price: in the back three rows of the orchestra section, to the right and left of the center aisle.

-- Here is Stratford's Macbeth page to show the kids:

https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/WhatsOn/PlaysAndEvents/Production/Macbeth 

-- Trailer for the 2016 season to show the kids (it's awesome!): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C477YE6dXUU

-- Family members are welcome as chaperones / guests.  The price is the same.

We would like to have payments in by this Friday, 2/5.  

Staples HW due Monday

Sorry for the delay.  We all have finals on the brain. But you are done and I still have to grade....sigh.

At any rate, here is your assignment.

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.

Missing words from vocab list

generosity, apathetic, joyous, illustrated, orchestrated, polarizing, societal, polemic, sustainable, antithetical, reverence, difident

Swift HW

Read Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal.”

While reading, consider diction, attitude, tone, and the elements and structure of Swift’s argument.  Respond to the piece (its message and form) in your journal response.

SOAPSTone

Vocabulary: avarice, gentility, indulgence, refinement, exploitation, philanthropy, misogyny, genteel, Papists, diffident, assuage, candor

Term: Satire, parody

Ad project submission

As we talked about in class, to save time during the switching of presentations you will need to submit your presentation ahead of time. ALL presentations are due by class time tomorrow. Each class has their own link to submit presentations. Please click on your hour and use the google form to submit.  You will need to use Google slides - this is available to everyone - it's just like powerpoint. If you have already made a Prezi or some other web based platform, please use that link.

If you have any questions before tomorrow REGARDING SUBMISSION, I will answer emails received before 8pm.

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3rd hour