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Senior English

Warm Up : (4 th Period: Cell phones away, please) According to Marxist Criticism, what is “base” and what is “superstructure”?. Senior English. Unit Four: Hamlet and Critical Schools. Agenda: Warm Up Marxist Approach Practice Body Paragraph Mini Lesson Peer Review. April 1 st , 2014.

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Senior English

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  1. Warm Up: (4th Period: Cell phones away, please) According to Marxist Criticism, what is “base” and what is “superstructure”? Senior English Unit Four: Hamlet and Critical Schools • Agenda: • Warm Up • Marxist Approach Practice • Body Paragraph Mini Lesson • Peer Review April 1st, 2014 • Objectives • Students will begin to apply the Marxist lens to literature and be able to begin analyzing text through that lens • Homework: Position Paper (final) due Sunday night.

  2. Marxism and Literary Criticism • Revolutionary understanding of history: • BASE • The base is the basic way a society organizes the production of goods. It includes employer-employee work conditions, the technical division of labor, and property relations, which people enter into to produce the necessities and amenities of life. • SUPERSTRUCTURE • The superstructure of a society includes it’s culture [LITERATURE], institutions, political power structures, roles, rituals, and norms. The function of the superstructure is to make the structure in the base seem “natural” or invisible so that the class system may continue.

  3. Body Paragraphs • What goes into body paragraph? • How are they organized?

  4. What goes in a body paragraph? • Transitions • Topic sentences • Evidence • Commentary • Connects evidence back to thesis.

  5. The Benefits of Higher Education • For members of all demographic groups, average earning increase measurably with higher levels of education. During their working lives, typical college graduates earn over 60 percent more than typical high school graduates, and those with advanced degrees earn two to three times as much as high school graduates.These economic returns make financing a college education a good investment

  6. How are body paragraphs organized? Why is your 3rd body paragraph 3rd? Why not 2nd? Why not 1st? • Chronologically • The ideas in each paragraph are presented in the order that they happened in history. • Order of Importance • The ideas are presented from the least to most important or the most to least important. • Logic of the Argument • Each new body paragraph draws from the last. You wouldn’t be able to understand one paragraph if you hadn’t read the last.

  7. Peer Review • Use three colored pencils—underline the parts of the body paragraph. Does each body paragraph include all the parts? • Identify the main idea of each body paragraph. Identify how the body paragraphs are organized.

  8. Independent Work • Homework: • Read the Williams Carlos Williams short story, the Dickinson poem, and the article on literary criticism. The article is quite difficult. Take notes on it. • Work on revising your essay • Final due Sunday night. • Work on it at the desktop computers

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