Honors Paideia B Agenda 8/17/2015

1. Honors Paideia B Agenda 8/17/2015 • Housekeeping- place homework on the right corner, sharpen your pencils, dispose of any trash etc. • Lou Gehrig Annotations • Complete the Ticket-In and SSR • Review the Essential Question and the Daily Objectives • Diction Notes and Practice • Writing Notes • Complete T-shirt Presentations • Read, Annotate, and Practice SOAPSToneRS using King’s “I Have a Dream” • Complete a Closure Question

2. Honors Paideia A Agenda 8/18/15 Housekeeping- place homework on the right corner, sharpen your pencils, dispose of any trash etc. Complete the Ticket-In and SSR Review the Essential Question and the Daily Objectives Diction Notes and Practice Writing Notes Read, Annotate, and Practice SOAPSToneRS using MLKs “I Have a Dream” Complete a Closure Question

3. Rhetorical Device #1-Diction Notes Diction is the author’s choice of words and it is the foundation of ALL other literary and rhetorical devices. When studying diction, students must understand both the connotation (the meaning suggested by the word) and the denotation (literal meaning). Example 1: when a writer calls a character slender, the word evokes a different feeling from calling the character gaunt. Effective diction is shaped by words that are clear, concrete, and exact. Good writers avoid words like pretty, nice, and bad. Instead they employ word that invoke a specific effect. Example 2: (Okay) The army wants revenge. (Better) The army thirsts for revenge. Example 3: (Okay) The door shuts. (Better) the door thuds

4. Diction Notes • Diction depends on topic, purpose, and occasion. • The topic often determines the specificity and sophistication of the diction. Example: Articles on computers are filled with specialized language like: interface, blogging, e-mail. • The author’s purpose- persuade, entertain, amuse, inform- determines diction. Words are chosen for a particular effect. Example: If the author’s purpose is to inform, the reader should expect straightforward diction. On the other hand, if the author’s purpose is to entertain, the reader will likely encounter words used in ironic, playful, or unexpected ways.

5. Diction Notes Arrange each word into an order from negative (left) to positive (right) labor, work, toil, employment sleepy, tired, exhausted, drained inaccurate, bogus, mistaken, wrong happy, delighted, ecstatic , content

6. Rhetorical Devices Continued • Repetition-repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and for emphasis. It has the ability of making a simple sentence sound like a dramatic one • Parallelism-uses words or phrases with a similar structure. • Example: I went to the store, parked the car and bought a pizza. • Example: We will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom

7. Writing Notes- Expository Paragraph You Must: Have a topic sentence Use transitions Explain and give examples Have a conclusion The most common problem in paragraph writing is not the ideas. Most have good ideas; the problem is organization. To reiterate, you must have good ideas and good organization!

8. Good Ideas Poor Organization I do agree with arresting parents of chronically truant student because sometimes kids don’t realize that what they do can have serious consequences, and you can’t push your parents around so you can do whatever you want. Sometimes parents don’t know how to be parents, and they need to learn how to discipline their children. It doesn’t mean they should be arrested but it is an eye opener that all they’re doing by letting their kids skip school is harming them. I don’t see why they wouldn’t get a tutor for their kids or some other help in the first place, but is something that they definitely need to start doing. Enforcing that skipping school is a crime and helping others do it is also one is a good idea, at least in theory, so the student can get the proper education they need. It’s not just the parents either that need to be reminded of the law, because all of those kids have a mind of their own and know exactly what they’re doing when they skip. Arresting students might be a good idea as well.

9. Good Ideas, Good Organization In order to address America’s educational issues, parents of chronically-truant students should be arrested. This policy was put in place in Orange Co. California in 2011 and allows the police to arrest parents of students who have missed over 10 days of school. The policy is only used as a last resort once parents have ignored other resources including tutoring and counseling. According to the article “Police Sweep Arrest Parents for Kids’ Skipping School” truancy sweeps in Orange Co. California have resulted in a “dramatic increase in attendance and decreased suspension and expulsions, as well as increased test scores at the targeted schools.”

10. Organizing an Outline

11. What is the best city to visit?

12. Sample Outline

13. What is the best American city to visit?

14. Tom broke the vase. Noun- is a word used to name a person, place, thing, or an idea (Tom, vase) Verb- a word that expresses action or a state of being (broke) Article- a word that modifies or limits a noun ( the) There are only 3 in English (a, an, the) *Subject- the person, place, or thing that is “doing” the action (Tom) *Object- receives the action of the verb (vase) *Passive voice is the exception and will be discussed later.

15. Grammar Practice- Identify the noun, verb, article, subject and object in the following sentences Rebecca won the race. The boy enjoyed the soda. Susan sang the song. Evelyn ate the cake. Ronald cleaned the house. Nick bought the popcorn. The girls played the game. Edith watched the movie.

16. Honors Paideia B 8/19/2015 Housekeeping- place homework on the right corner, sharpen your pencils, dispose of any trash etc. Complete the Ticket In and SSR Review the Essential Question and the Daily Objective Read and Annotate the I Have A Dream speech using SOAPSToneRs Read and Annotate Stone’s Disappointment is the Lot of Women Complete the Closure Questions

17. Diction Practice “For nearly a year, I sopped around the house, the Store, the school, and the church, like an old biscuit, dirty and inedible. Then I met, or rather got to know, the lady who threw me my first lifeline.” - Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings What is the denotation of the verb sop? This word is not usually used to describe a person’s actions. What effect does this have on the reader? What is a lifeline? How is Angelou’s use of the word different from its usual use? How does this diction affect your understanding of the sentence? Write a sentence using the verb “ring” in a fresh new way to capture your behavior around your house. Use Angelou’s sentence as a model.

18. Diction Answers Sop means to soak or drench in liquid. Used here, the word evokes a feeling of total, debilitating misery. The freshness of the word use surprises the reader and helps him/her understand the intensity and completeness of the misery (like a piece of bread used to sop up gravy until it’s heavy and falling apart). A lifeline is an anchored line thrown to someone drowning. The word usually used literally. Here it’s used figuratively. The narrator is not drowning in the literal sense; instead, she is drowning emotionally (carrying through the idea connoted by sop in sentence 1). The use of the word lifeline lets the reader understand just how difficult the narrator’s situation is and how desperately she needs help. It also lets the reader know how strong the lady is- that she is anchored and able to provide the emotional lifeline the narrator needs.

19. Organizing the Outline- Creating a plan saves time and improves writing! Topic=Answer to the Questions Key Idea: Answers Because… Reason/Detail/Fact=Identifies/introduces key ideas and concepts using reasons, details, and facts Explanations/Elaborations/Examples=Presents evidence EE= Provides explanations and examples (from the text!) R/D/F_______________________________ EE__________________________________ EE__________________________________ *You will change the words and phrases into complete sentences when you write the paragraph

20. Sample Outline Topic: Plymouth Colony RDF: Mayflower EE: Carried Pilgrims fleeing religious persecution EE: Arrived in 1620 RDF: William Bradford EE: Governor EE: Helped write Mayflower Compact

21. Create an Outline for the Following Topic: What movie should all young adults go to see?

22. Rhetorical Device #2 and #3 Repetition-repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and for emphasis. It has the ability of making a simple sentence sound like a dramatic one. Parallelism-uses words or phrases with a similar structure. Example: I went to the store, parked the car and bought a pizza. Example: We will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom

23. Stylistic Device #1 Allusion: A reference. An allusion may refer to a work of art, a historical event, mythology, a work of literature, etc.

24. I Have a Dream Questions • Why might King have chosen to utilize a simile comparing the Emancipation Proclamation to“a great beacon light of hope”? Why is saying that African Americans exist on a “lonely island” a fitting metaphor during this time period? • Give one example (other than “I have a dream”) of repetition in the piece. What effect does this have on the reader? • Why is the description of a “sweltering summer” particularly moving? • Provide an example of alliteration (repetition of the initial consonant sound) in the piece. What does this add to the speech? Why is this device particularly important in a speech?

25. I Have a Dream Questions Continued 6. King says his dream is “deeply rooted in the American dream.” What does he mean by saying this? 7. Why might King have chosen to quote “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” in his speech? 8. King ends with a Negro spiritual. How—and why— might this have moved the crowd? 9. What is the most moving line of this speech? Why?

26. Honors Paideia A 8/20/2015 Housekeeping- place homework on the right corner, sharpen your pencils, dispose of any trash etc. Review the Essential Question and the Daily Objective Ticket In Quiz 1 SSR Begin BBR Complete the Closure Questions

27. Honors Paideia B 8/21/15 Housekeeping- place homework on the right corner, sharpen your pencils, dispose of any trash etc Review the Essential Question and the Daily Objective Ticket In Quiz 1 SSR Begin BBR Complete the Closure Questions

28. Honors Paideia A 8/24/2015 Housekeeping- place homework on the right corner, sharpen your pencils, dispose of any trash etc. Complete both sides of the Ticket-in and SSR Review the Essential Questions and Daily Objectives Complete the Grammar and Diction Practice Read and Annotate the Four Freedoms Complete the Closure Questions

29. Honors Paideia B 8/25/2015 Housekeeping- place homework on the right corner, sharpen your pencils, dispose of any trash etc. Complete both sides of the Ticket-in and SSR Review the Essential Questions and Daily Objectives Complete the Grammar and Diction Practice Read and Annotate the Four Freedoms Answer the Questions Using the Text Complete the Closure Questions

30. Grammar Practice- Identify the noun, verb, article, subject and object in the following sentences Aaron slept in a tent. Rosie swept the floor. Lena wrote an essay. Jacob taught the class. Annie performed the duet. Wallace drove the car. The dogs gnawed the bone. Sophia went to the store.

31. Diction Practice “There was a scurrying around and then eight of them snatched up their guns, formed up into twos, and marched out behind the office. He wheeled his horse about and trotted toward me. I jumped back and plunged for the tavern doorway.”-Collier, My Brother Sam is Dead Look at the word snatched in the first sentence. Notice how clearly you can visualize the action because of the strong verb. How would it change the meaning of the sentence if it read the “eight of them picked up their guns?” What does the use of the word plunged in the third sentence tell you about the narrator’s attitude toward the other characters in this passage. Use the word plunged in a sentence, but instead of having the word express a negative emotion, have it express excitement and happiness. Remember that in many cases the context of the word determines its deeper meaning.

32. The verb snatch implies a quick eager grabbing. There is an urgency in the motion. Pick up, on the other hand, has no such urgency. It is neutral and implies not speed or emotional attachment. Changing the verb mutes the intensity of the motion. The word plunge connotes a forceful and violent action. The picture is of one diving for the door. No one plunges for a doorway unless he desperately wants to get there. The narrator, therefore, is no fan of the other characters and desperately want to get away from them.

33. Diction Practice Continued

34. Create an Outline for the following: If you were a superhero who would you be?

35. Rhetorical Devices# 3 Parallelism-uses words or phrases with a similar structure. Example: I went to the store, parked the car and bought a pizza. Example: We will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom Antithesis-makes a connection between two opposing ideas/things - “That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” (Neil Armstrong)

36. The Four Freedoms S- O- A- P- S- T- R/S-

37. Group Activity How do you get everyone to participate effectively? How do you handle disagreement? How do you assign tasks fairly? How do you hold everyone accountable?

38. Four Freedoms-In a group carefully analyze the speech one paragraph at a time. Note changes made in word choice, phrasing, or punctuation. In the first review, simply look for the changes from one draft to the next. After you have noted the changes, determine the impact that change had on the meaning or intent in the reading. • Review the way the four freedoms within the speech are presented. Structurally, how do the constructions follow a parallel structure and how do they deviate from a parallel structure? What impact do those choices in structure have on meaning? • Why do you think Roosevelt would not name the “new order?”What are the differences between the “new order” and the “moral order?” • Can we have our fourth freedom and abide by the definition of a good society? How can these both exist? How does the inclusion of the contradiction impact meaning? • Consider the definition of negative and positive liberty. Read each of the four freedoms carefully and determine for each of the four freedoms, what kind of liberty is applied? Use textual evidence to support your answer. • Who do you think is the primary audience? What textual evidence would support this assertion? • What is Roosevelt trying to convince his audience to support? How does he craft his speech to promote his cause? Use textual evidence to support your answer. • How is he to convince his audience? Draw from textual evidence to support your answer. • How does the use of precise language, phrasing, and punctuation promote tone and meaning? Use specific textual evidence to support your answer.

39. Honor Paideia A Agenda 8/26/2015 Housekeeping- place homework on the right corner, sharpen your pencils, dispose of any trash etc. Complete both sides of the Ticket-in Review the Daily Objectives Complete the Grammar and Diction Practice Continue to Read, Annotate, and Complete SOAPSToneRS for The Four Freedoms Complete the Closure Questions

40. Grammar Practice- Label the Nouns, Verbs, Article, Subjects and Objects in the Following Sentences The girls had a picnic. Sam walked the track. Angela devoured the fruit. Abbey told a lie. Reba followed the rules. Michael liked basketball. James read a book. Mrs. Atkinson cleaned the desks.

41. Diction Practice • “Meanwhile, the United States Army, thirsting for revenge, was prowling the country north and west of the Black Hills, killing Indians wherever they could be found.” -Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee 1. What are the connotations of thirsting? What feelings are evoked by this diction?  2. What are the connotations of prowling? What kind of animals prowl? What attitude toward the US Army does this diction convey? 

42. Questions for My Name is Margaret • In describing her “irrelevant preparations for adulthood,” Angelou notes that she was “lagging behind.” What impact does this word choice (diction) have on our understand of her feelings toward her upbringing? • In the same paragraph, Angelou uses parentheses to describe an African American female’s shopping and • working experience. What does this grammatical convention serve to do? How would the effect be different if she had not used the parenthesis? • In what ways does a white woman’s kitchen become Angelou’s “finishing school”? • Find and write a sentence that Angelou isolates. What effect does this isolation have on the piece? • Provide an example of Angelou’s use of humor. How does this help characterize young Margaret? • What effect does the parenthesis surrounding “according to Miss Glory” have on the piece? In what ways does create tone? • Provide an example of indirect characterization for Mrs. Cullinan. What does this detail tell the reader about her? • The clause “no one mentioned Mr. Coleman” is offset in parentheses. To what effect? • What is ironic about the fact that Margaret keeps repeating the phrase “poor Mrs. Cullinan”? • Why does Mrs. Cullinan shorten Margaret’s name to “Mary”? How does Margaret respond? • What reason does Margaret give for not wanting to be called “out of her name”? • Miss Glory reveals she has accepted the new name Mrs. Cullinan provided for her. What does the selection • of detail meant to show the reader? • What might the dropping of the serving tray metaphorically represent? • What is revealed about Miss Glory in her response “You mean to say she broke our Virginia dishes? What • we gone do?” • What types of sentences does Angelou use to conclude the piece? Why might she have chosen this syntax?

43. Freshman Seminar Agenda 8/22/2014 • Housekeeping- place homework on the right corner, sharpen your pencils, dispose of any trash etc. • AOW on Right Corner • Complete both sides of the Ticket-in • Review the Daily Objectives • Complete the Quiz • Complete the Assessment Reflection • Introduce Writing Notes