APillionaries
Thursday, October 10th,
2013
Days
Remaining in Term = 11
·
Focus
for this week and Monday = WRITING
·
Focus
for next week = House
on Mango Street (novella)
Homework
Due
o Revision on
Final Draft (due Monday)
o Quizlet Vocab
#4 (quiz Wednesday)
Vocab
Warm-Up
Ø
Quizlet
for ten to fifteen minutes
o
because
I have homework for you tonight that does not involve Quizlet
o
and
because I believe some of these words would work well in your essays—diction,
like a boss!
o
1:57-2:12
New Writing
Assignment
DEFINITION/ARGUMENT
ESSAY: What is poetry?
·
Five anchors for your paper =
five different sources
1.
WHEN I’M FINISHED TALKING, open the
google doc in our class folder for your research, and MAKE A COPY. Feel free to delete my stuff, once you know
what you need to do yourself.
2.
Peruse the following
places carefully:
Ø
Poetry quote responses in journal
Ø
Words quote responses in journal
Ø
Poems in our book—let’s list them (pink
pages)—start with the ones about poetry!
Ø
Perrine!
Ø
Any pieces that talk about words and
language—let’s list them
3.
Start a google doc where you list quotes you might want to use. (You obviously need MORE than five to start
with; you’ll whittle down your list tomorrow.)
4.
At an agreed upon time this block--_____3:10_____--I
will give you a partner to share your research with, and you will discuss your ideas thus far with that person.
Ø
Did your partner help you clarify
your thinking?
Ø
…give you an idea?
Ø
…support the direction in which you
are heading?
5.
For tomorrow, CATEGORIZE your research, in column “E”.
6.
You need to have at least ten quotes sorted.
CREATIVE WRITING
- We went to Stewart today to work with our Writing Buddies on the Russian Tailor Poem!
CPR
Thursday, 10/9/2013
Days Remaining in Term = 11
Homework
Due
Ø
Note-taking
Policies
Ø
Everyone
who had information to present did so—we heard lots of good information.
Satire
1.
Biographical
Approach—background on Jonathan Swift:
Read pages 586-589 in the British Lit book.
2.
Historical
Approach—Ireland in Swift’s Day: Read
page 611 in the British Lit book.
“A Modest Proposal”
By Jonathan Swift
Background About “A Modest Proposal”
By considering this information, we
are taking a HISTORICAL APPROACH to the reading.
1. written by Jonathan Swift
a)
life and death =
1667-1745
b)
published it in
1729 as a pamphlet (a kind of essay in an unbound booklet).
c)
well-known as the
author of the satirical political fantasy, Gulliver's
Travels.
2. Conditions in Ireland
a)
not an independent
country
b)
far poorer than
England.
c)
Most people born
there were Roman Catholics and employed as agricultural laborers or tenant
farmers.
d)
The landlords
(landowners) were paid from the produce of the land, at rates workers could
rarely afford.
e)
This ruling class
were usually Protestants. Many of them
were not born in Ireland, nor did they live there permanently.
f)
If the laborers
lost their work, there would always be other poor people to take it up.
g)
There was no social
security system and starvation was as common as in the Third World today.
h)
Swift knows, in
writing the Proposal, that in living
memory, Irish people had been driven to cannibalism.
1.
We read and discussed about a page of
the essay. We listened to the audio, and
we annotated as we read.
2.
We reminded ourselves over and over,
this is SATIRE! :-)
Johnathon Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
Text
Audio
“Modest Proposal” HOMEWORK:
· Read the first five paragraphs on page three, and annotate
thoughtfully!
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