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.

Swift - A Modest Proposal

DUE WEDNESDAY

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

Kahoot questions

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