Learning Target: I will identify rhetorical elements such as diction, syntax and mood in a written text, and connect those to how they support the author's larger purposes in that text.
Homework:
Finish reading Chapter 2 in LOC and review the glossary of rhetorical terms. Likely quiz tomorrow on chapter 2 and its rhetorical terms (15 points).
Bellringer: Rhetorical strategies, effects, and purpose in the Santa Ana Winds passage. (20 minutes)
Referring back to pages 49-56, answer the following:
1) Diction and mood: Discuss what words would best describe the mood of the first and second paragraphs (you may use your own words or those mentioned in the textbook), and how specific word choices in the first and second paragraph contribute to the mood of those paragraphs?
2) Syntax: Briefly discuss how Didion's uses of a long, cumulative sentence in the second paragraph on 49 suggests a building threat; also, briefly discuss how she uses shorter sentences later in the paragaph.
3) In the third paragraph, what is the primary technique Didion uses to demonstrate that "science bears out folk wisdom"?
4) What do the author's of the textbook suggest the purpose of Didion's piece may be?
Pair and share, briefly discuss your answers to the bellringer.
Leave enough time to create an exit ticket with both your names on and answers (with the page number where your found the answers - pssst...it's the same page for both) to the following: According to the textbook,
1) What effect was Didion striving for in the piece?
2) How does she create that effect?
Likely on tap for tomorrow:
- Quiz
- Review student essay responses to Didion
- thesis review and the following writing exercise
August 28, 2014 Journal Entry: Tortilla Curtain Close Reading/Thesis paragraphs
The Tortilla Curtain
Working Draft Thesis Statement:
The way Delaney submits to xenophobic feelings as the fire threatens his home in the Arroyo Blanco Estates emphasizes how racism and discrimination can stem from fear and anxiety. Moreover, Boyle’s description of Delaney’s mental state as he joins “a mob” and curses out “the Mexican” in the baseball cap illustrates how even a person who prides himself on being open-minded and compassionate has the capacity to feel an ugly joy when he gives in to the sinister and simplistic logic that undergirds racism.
Using this two-part working draft thesis statement above, do a close reading of pages 288 "'Officer' he boomed" to page 290 "offered the bottle again, he took it." Write two paragraphs that substantiate/support/defend/develop the thesis statement by weaving in short quotes.
Homework:
Finish reading Chapter 2 in LOC and review the glossary of rhetorical terms. Likely quiz tomorrow on chapter 2 and its rhetorical terms (15 points).
Bellringer: Rhetorical strategies, effects, and purpose in the Santa Ana Winds passage. (20 minutes)
Referring back to pages 49-56, answer the following:
1) Diction and mood: Discuss what words would best describe the mood of the first and second paragraphs (you may use your own words or those mentioned in the textbook), and how specific word choices in the first and second paragraph contribute to the mood of those paragraphs?
2) Syntax: Briefly discuss how Didion's uses of a long, cumulative sentence in the second paragraph on 49 suggests a building threat; also, briefly discuss how she uses shorter sentences later in the paragaph.
3) In the third paragraph, what is the primary technique Didion uses to demonstrate that "science bears out folk wisdom"?
4) What do the author's of the textbook suggest the purpose of Didion's piece may be?
Pair and share, briefly discuss your answers to the bellringer.
Leave enough time to create an exit ticket with both your names on and answers (with the page number where your found the answers - pssst...it's the same page for both) to the following: According to the textbook,
1) What effect was Didion striving for in the piece?
2) How does she create that effect?
Likely on tap for tomorrow:
- Quiz
- Review student essay responses to Didion
- thesis review and the following writing exercise
August 28, 2014 Journal Entry: Tortilla Curtain Close Reading/Thesis paragraphs
Using this two-part working draft thesis statement above, do a close reading of pages 288 "'Officer' he boomed" to page 290 "offered the bottle again, he took it." Write two paragraphs that substantiate/support/defend/develop the thesis statement by weaving in short quotes.
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