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Please take EVERYTHING off of your desk except for something to write with and the blue handout. VOCAB TEST TIME!. When you are finished with your test:. Please cover your test sheet with the blue writing handout. Carefully read over the entire document- selecting one of the three options.
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Please take EVERYTHING off of your desk except for something to write with and the blue handout.VOCAB TEST TIME!
When you are finished with your test: • Please cover your test sheet with the blue writing handout. • Carefully read over the entire document- selecting one of the three options. • Circle your first choice
Turn in Order • Test on Top • Vocab #1 • Vocab #2 • Vocab #3 • Vocab #4 • Staple together! Smile!!!
More Philosophy: • “If more women were in power, they wouldn’t let wars break out…Women can’t be bothered with all this fighting. We see war for what it is--a matter of broken bodies and crying mothers” (Smith 196). • AGREE? DISAGREE? • “ ‘If you eat, you should cook’ . These ideas came from America…but had they made the Americans any happier? Surely there had to be some limits to all this progress, all this unsettling change “(196). • How does this put Botswana culture/mind set into perspective? Do we need to put our expectations aside?
Notice how diction (word choice) reveals attitudes of characters: • “Dr. Maketsi clicked his tongue in mock disapproval. ‘I have come about a real problem,’ he said. ‘Not just a little question of wives’” (197).
Nostaligia • “She knew the railway station slightly….tucked in lightly” (215). • “MmaRamotswe did not want Africa to Change…No thank you” (215).
More on diction and setting • Pages 222-223 • What words help to define the mood (atmosphere) of the land where the witchdoctor lives? • List at least 10 words and then tell me the mood that is revealed. • Remember: tone= feelings of character mood= feelings of atmosphere
End of Novel Discussion • On page 220: MmaRamotswe transfers the problem of the twins from Botswana to South Africa- why does she do this? • Were you satisfied by the ending? Why would Alexander McCall Smith choose to end this way? • Final thematic examples???
Writing!!! • Selecting a method! • Still struggling with formal writing? PLEASE select Option 1 or 2!!!! • Creative Writing is extremely challenging…do NOT think this is the easy way out. • Select an Outline template… perhaps take both and return one at the end of class.
HOMEWORK??? • Come in next class with a definite essay/writing idea/outline method. • Next class: Outlining and more on quote set up!