Homework September 2-6

DUE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2

- Read “The ‘Values’ Wasteland” p.198

-Complete ALL Questions for Close Reading, p.205

-Questions about the Writer’s Craft, #2,3 p.205

DUE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3

- Read “Black Men and Public Space” p.207

-Answer ALL Questions for Close Reading, p. 209

-Answer Questions about the Writer’s Craft, #2,3,4 p. 210

-Read “Bombs Bursting in Air” p. 211

-Answer ALL Questions for Close Reading, p. 215

-Answer Questions about the Writer’s Craft #2, p.215

DUE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4

- Read “Common Scents: The Smell of Childhood Never Fades” p. 217

-Answer ALL Questions for Close Reading, p. 219

-Write an Exemplification essay, p.221 handwritten double spaced

NO SCHOOL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5

DUE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

-Final draft of the Exemplification essay, typed and printed- Due at 4:00pm

-Blog post #8

-NO VOCABULARY THIS WEEK (:

Homework and Vocabulary August 26-30

DUE Tuesday, August 27

- Evaluate picture on the bottom on p. 177, follow instructions in the box.

- #4 p. 189

DUE Thursday, August 29

- Read “Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen” p. 190

- Answer all Questions for Close Reading p.194

- Essay #1 p. 196

DUE Friday, August 30

-Write essay #3 p.196

DUE Monday, September 2

-Final Draft of essay, typed, MLA,  due 4:00pm

-Blog Post #7

Vocabulary List for Quiz on Friday, August 30

-Matching & sentences

•             assertion- a declaration or statement

•             clarity- clearness in thought or expression

•             cogent- convincing; reasonable

•             coherent- logically connected

•             cohesive- condition of sticking together

•             didactic- intended to instruct

•             discourse- verbal expression or exchange; conversation

•             eloquence- the ability to speak vividly or persuasively

•             emphasize- to give special attention to something, to stress

•             fluid- easily flowing

•             implication- the act of suggesting or hinting

•             lucid- easily understood; clear

•             rhetoric- the art of using language effectively and persuasively

Homework and Vocabulary August 19-23

Due Tuesday, August 20

·         Read Chapter 4, p. 126-145

·         Complete ALL  Questions for Close Reading on “Fourth of July” p. 143

·         Questions About the Writers Craft, p. 144 #3, 4

Due Thursday, August 22

·         Read “Shooting an Elephant” p. 146

·         Complete ALL Questions for Close Reading p. 152

·         Questions about the Writers Craft, p. 152, #1,4

·         Read “Someone’s Mother” p. 154

·         Complete ALL Questions for Close Reading p.156

·         Questions about the Writers Craft p. 156, # 2, 4

·         Read “Salvation” p. 158

·         Complete ALL Questions for Close Reading p. 160

·         Write an essayp.161,  #3

Due Friday, August 23

·         Write a narrative essay. Pick a topic from p. 173 –Handwritten, DOUBLE SPACED

·         Study for vocabulary quiz

Due Monday, August 26

·         Final draft for the narrative essay. Typed, MLA- due at 4:00PM on Monday. Peer reviewed rough draft attached.

·         Blog Post #5

 

VOCABULARY LIST

ASYNDETON- The omission of conjunctions between related clauses.
Ex: "This is the villain among you who deceived you, who cheated you, who meant to betray you completely." (Aristotle)

POLYSYNDETON- Repetition of conjunctions in close succession.
Ex: "We have ships and men and money and stores."

SYLLOGISM- Logical reasoning from inarguable premises.

Ex. If Johnny is eating sweets every day, he is placing himself at risk for diabetes. Johnny does not eat sweats everyday. Therefore Johnny is not placing himself at risk for diabetes.

ALLUSION is a short, informal reference to a famous person or event.

Ex. “You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first. 'Tis a word too great for any mouth of this age's size.” –Shakespeare

Pleonasm: using more words than required to express an idea; being redundant.

Ex. “The vote was completely and totally unanimous.” (A unanimous vote cannot be anything but complete and total.)

Exemplum: Figure of amplification using an example, brief or extended, real or fictitious, to illustrate a point; an example. Examples can be introduced by the obvious choice of "For example," but there are other possibilities. For quick introductions, such as those attached to a sentence, you migiht use "such as," or "for instance." Examples placed into separate sentences can be introduced by "A case in point," "An instance," "A typical situation,"  "A common example," "To illustrate, let's consider the situation," and so forth.

Ex. "All this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans, traditionally, love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. Now, I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed." – George C. Scott

Metanoia (correctio) qualifies a statement by recalling it (or part of it) and expressing it in a better, milder, or stronger way. A negative is often used to do the recalling.

Ex. “The chief thing to look for in impact sockets is hardness; no, not so much hardness as resistance to shock and shattering.”

Anacoluthon: finishing a sentence with a different grammatical structure from that with which it began.

Ex. “Be careful with these two devices because improperly used they can--well, I have cautioned you enough.”

Homework and Vocabulary for August 12-16

DUE MONDAY, August 12

·         Blog Post #4

·         Final Draft of p.60, #1, typed and printed by 4:00pm

·         Read and Annotate p.72-86

·         Complete #3, p.85

DUE TUESDAY, August 13

·         Read and annotate “Sister Flowers” p. 87

·         Answer ALL Questions for Close Reading, p. 92, 

·         Answer  Questions About the Writer’s Craft, p. 93 #2, 4

DUE WEDNESDAY, August 14

·         Read and annotate “Flavio’s Home” p. 95

·         Answer ALL Questions for Close Reading p. 101

·         Complete writing assignment #1 OR #2 (your choice) on page 102, handwritten

·         Read and annotate “Bloggers Without Borders” p. 111

·         Answer ALL Questions for Close Reading,  p. 114

 

DUE THURSDAY, AUGUST 15

·         Read and annotate “A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood” p. 117

·         Answer ALL Questions for Close Reading, p. 12

DUE FRIDAY, AUGUST 16

·         Write a descriptive essay, chose a topic from p. 124, 1-20, handwritten

·         Study for vocabulary quiz

DUE MONDAY, AUGUST 19

·         Final draft of the descriptive essay, typed and printed- Due at 4:00pm

·         Blog post #4

VOCABULARY LIST FOR QUIZ ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 16

DON’T FORGET- The quiz may contain questions over vocabulary learned from previous weeks.

CHIASMUS - Repetition of ideas in inverted order. Sometimes called reverse parallelism. Example: "I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction's job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." (David Foster Wallace)

PARALLELISM- Also referred to as parallel construction or parallel structure, this term comes from Greek roots meaning “beside one another.” It refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity. This can involve, but is not limited to, repetition of a grammatical element such as a preposition or verbal phrase. Example: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of believe, it was the epoch of incredulity....” (Charles Dickens)

ZEUGMA - When a word is used with two adjacent words in the same construction, but only makes literal sense with one of them. Example: "He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men." (Tim O'Brien)

 

CLICHE: A trite expression--often a figure of speech whose effectiveness has been worn out through overuse and excessive familiarity. Example: “What goes around comes around”

SARCASM: is defined in The Oxford Universal Dictionary, published in 1933, as "a sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark; a bitter gibe or taunt." More contemporary definitions often emphasize the false, mocking praise and verbal irony of sarcasm rather than its malicious or scornful intent. Example: I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

EUPHEMISM: A word or words that are used to avoid employing an unpleasant or offensive term. Example: “My grandpa unexpectedly passed away yesterday” (use of “passed away” instead of “died”)

MALAPROPISM: the unintentional use of a word that resembles the word intended but that has a very different meaning. Example: “He’s a wolf in cheap clothing” (using “cheap” instead of “sheep”).

PERSONIFICATION: The figurative device in which inanimate objects or concepts are given human qualities. Example: “The flowers were crying for my attention.”

 

August 5-9 Homework and Vocabulary

Due Monday , August 5:

-Blog Post #3

-Read Ch. 1- “The Reading Process” p.1-12

-Do ALL Questions for Close reading. 11

-ALL Questions about the Writer’s Craft, p. 12

-Pick one writing assignment, p. 12 handwritten, due MONDAY

-Reading quiz over Ch. 1 on Monday

 

Due Tuesday, August 6

-Review Vocabulary and Rhetorical Devices, quiz Friday

 

Due Wednesday, August 7

-Read Ch. 2, pg. 13-40

-Complete # 1, 2 on p. 27 IB

-Complete #1, on p. 31 IB, WRITE THESIS STATEMENT, IDENTIFY PURPOSE, AUDIENCE, TONE

-Complete #1, p.38

-Complete #4 on p. 39

 

Due Thursday, August 8

-Finish Ch. 2 pg. 40-71

-Review #3 on p. 46

-Complete #1, p. 60

-Prepare for the quiz

 

Due Friday, August 9

-Study for the quiz

-Log onto EDLINE, figure it out if yours isn’t working

 

Vocabulary List, Quiz on August 9

Write out the definition:

·         Logos- an appeal to reason and logic.

·         Ethos- an appeal to speaker´s credibility

·         Pathos- an appeal to the emotions, values, or desires of the audience

Fill in the balnk:

·         Hyperbole- an overstatement or exaggeration it is the use of figurative language that significantly exaggerates the facts for effect. In many instances, but certainly not all, hyperbole is employed for comic effect.

EXAMPLE- “My backpack weighs a ton!

 

·         Simile- comparision between two unlike objects, in which the two parts are connected with a term such as like or as

EXAMPLE- “She is like a rose.”

 

·         Metaphor- a simile without a connecting term such as like or as.

EXAMPLE- “The birds are black arrows flying across the sky.”

 

·         Oxymoron- an apparent contradiction of terms

EXAMPLE- “That was a seriously funny joke.”

·         Pun – a play on words. In general, a pun either plays on the multiple meanings of a word or replaces one word with another that is similar in sound but very different in meaning. Puns are almost always used for comic effect.

EXAMPLE- “He had a difficult time bouncing back from his bungee cord accident.”

·         Metonymy – the use of figurative language in which characteristics are substituted for the things in which they are associated.

EXAMPLE- “The United States will be delivering the new product to us very soon.”

·         Aphorism – a concise, pithy statement of an opinion or a general truth

EXAMPLE- “Many hands make light work.”