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REMEMBER:  If I can get my old(ish) out of shape self out there, so can YOU!

Please join me on May 1st.

AP registration

Use this document for instructions on how to register ONLINE.  This is new for this year, hence the reason for the delay.  BTW you must use a school account to access that document. I cannot change the settings for you. Any questions, check in counselling.

American Intstitute for Foreign Study

I have received information that you might be interested in. The AIFS is holding 4 summer workshops that are about 5 weeks long of intense language study.

Workshops available:
San Jose, Costa Rica 7/2 - 8/6, $4,995 Includes housing, meals, insurance and up to 6 credit hours from Veritas University

Paris, France
6/26 - 7/30 $5,695 Includes housing, meals (breakfast and a $subsidy for dinners), insurances, an excursion to London, and up to 6 hours university credit from the Sorbonne.

Rome, Italy
6/22 - 7/23  $5,695. Includes housing, meal vouchers, insurance, an excursion to Florence, and up to 7 hours credit from The American international University in London (campus in Rome)..

Salamanca, Spain
6/28 - 7/30 $4,545.  Includes hosuing, meal allowances (or 3 meals a day if in a home), insurance, excursions to Segovia, Avila, Mogarraz, La Alberca, and Riomalo, and up to 4 credits at University of Salamanca.

Please contact me ASAP for application information. The deadline to apply for most of these is MARCH 15!

Pollan HW

For Friday, read Michael Pollan’s “What’s Eating America”.  The following homework is also due Friday.

1. Terms.  Mostly reveiw, with a couple new ones: metaphor, pathos, logos, ethos, subjectivity, objectivity, parallelism, sentence fragment, concrete details, inverted syntax, anaphora, premise, qualify, refute, transition, syntax, irony, antimetabole, amplification

2. Vocabulary: mitigated, contemporary, proximity, articulate, assertion, generalize, magnitude, mock, chronological, miraculous, capitalism, colonize, boon, anachronism

3. Journal Response:  Answer question two or four on pages 305-6 with a full-page response.

4. SOAPSTone

5. Do any research necessary to fully understand the text, annotate, and bring questions if you have them.

Thoreau - HW due MONDAY 3/7

Read "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" pg 404 in book. If you do not have the correct edition, here is a PDF copy.

Review all devices, especially the following:  periodic sentence, compound sentence, cumulative sentence, antithesis, antecedent

Vocabulary:  fond, salutary, resignation, sublime, marrow, rout, frittered, heedless, German Confederacy

SOAPSTone

** Please also research and understand any other references to ideas, concepts, historical events, etc., that you need to understand in order to fully comprehend the piece.

Journal:  Choose one of the questions on page 409 to respond to in a one-page journal.

EB White Rhetoric and Style questions

Questions of Rhetoric and Style: E.B. White –

1. Characterize the epiphany the speaker has in this essay.  

2. Find and quote the sentence or passage that you think most closely epitomizes the theme or central idea in this essay.

3. In one to two paragraphs, explain why your chosen passage epitomizes White’s central idea.

4. Note White’s use of such original and creative expressions as “had never had any fresh water up his nose.” Find and cite a few others.

5. Identify three or four examples of figurative language and discuss their purpose.

6. Discuss the effect of the specificity of detail in paragraph 11.

7. The concluding sentence of penultimate paragraph begins with “And.”  What is the effect of beginning that way?

8. Why does White describe the lake as “fade-proof” and the woods as “unshatterable” in paragraph 8?

9. Discuss the nature of the final image of the essay.  What rhetorical purpose does it serve?

White HW due Friday

E.B. White: Please review all terms.  

For the quiz, you can focus on these 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. Write an essay in which you discuss the effect of White’s development according to parataxis, i.e., his copious use of “and” as a rhetorical device.  Refer to several examples from the text to support your essay.
2. Construct a thesis 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”
3. 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.