Formal Essay notes

Make sure you read through this document as you are revising your Oscar Wilde or Queen Elizabeth speech

Plato HW due 10/26

Read (and annotate) Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” multiple times.

Term: Oxymoron

Allegory

Zeugma

Antithesis

Induction

Analogy

Anecdote

Vocab:

Virtue Innate Hedonism Abstraction              pensive              ambivalence

Indulgence Asceticism Impediment              Divine              Dejected              prodigy

Paltry Keen Inversion Dazzled Morose single-mindedness

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 and any sample sentences or examples that you need in order to make sense of the allegory.

Split the next two questions over your one page journal entry:

2. Respond to question 4 on page 299.
3. Explain in a paragraph why this is called an allegory.  You might identify the allegorical representations and the message.

Complete SOAPSTone, of course ☺

Important announcement

I'm sorry I wasn't there today. Don't stress over today's team quiz.  It was actually a NOT quiz. Meaning it counts for participation but not accuracy.  Also for tomorrow, you will still have the terms and vocab quiz but you will also do one reading and 10 questions from a released AP test. Those will be your two quizzes.  I also am aware that I did not answer questions about the stereotypes project. I will address that on Monday.

To both hours - You will write an impromptu on Monday. It will not be on Ericsson but a released RA from the AP.

Do know that I would be there if I had any semblance of a voice at all. Hope you all have a good weekend.

UPDATE: Stereotypes project

Please read the document for instructions on your Defying Stereotypes Project.  I will answer any and all questions tomorrow (Thursday) first thing in class.

Due date - Carlisle Thursday 10/20, Willett Wednesday 10/19

Ericsson - due Tuesday

Ericsson, “The Ways We Lie”

SOAPSTone: Be concise.

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

Eighner R/S questions

Use these questions for discussion tomorrow.  Also, reading and terms/vocab quizzes will be THURSDAY.

Eighner HW

Eighner: Due Tuesday

• Prior to reading: Write down at the top of your journal what words or ideas come to mind when you think of a dumpster diver.  Be candid, concise, and brief.  
• Read and annotate Lars Eighner’s “On Dumpster Diving”
• SOAPSTone
• Journal: Write your journal after reading.  
• How does Eighner make you feel about your own material values?  How do you relate to Dumpster diving and to what he calls the “grab for the gaudy bauble.”

Define and Review:

Terms: Refute/refutation, juxtaposition

Term Review: irony, ethos, pathos, logos, tone, (and any others you are still not comfortable with)

Vocabulary: assertion, romantic (in a literary sense), deplorable, practical, destitute, blight, despicable, elevated, satiric, didactic, querulous, authoritative, pragmatic, equity, indifference, consumer, undercut, gaudy, bauble + 5 of your own from the text

Vocabulary review: polemic