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AP English III Language and Composition

AP English III Language and Composition. AP English III Language and Composition August 28, 2012. Overview. Pronoun review Housekeeping Wednesday pictures at 10:30 Homework N. Scott Momaday The Way to Rainy Mountain, his memoir. At the bell.

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AP English III Language and Composition

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  1. AP English III Language and Composition AP English III Language and Composition August 28, 2012

  2. Overview • Pronoun review • Housekeeping • Wednesday pictures at 10:30 • Homework • N. Scott Momaday • The Way to Rainy Mountain, his memoir

  3. At the bell In your CB do vocabulary at bottom of 55, #1-4 Then write these sentences with proper pronoun use: 5. Someone left their keys on my toadstool. 6. Jose and me like Chinese food. Doesn’t you? 7. My cat’s hair and mine’s clogged up the car air vent.

  4. Housekeeping Pictures on Wednesday, 10:30 Math tutoring, Mr. Prince, Wednesday. after school PSAT and other tests are in October Start reading Scarlet Letter. We will get to it in two weeks.

  5. Homework, page 64 1. nocturnal 6. pillage 2. solstice 7. luxuriant 3. enmity 8. profusion 4. tenuous 9. opaque 5. preeminently 10. inherently__________ 1. apogee c. point where moon is farthest away 2. equinox a. 2 days yearly when day=night hours 3. diurnal d. relating to daily rotation of Earth 4. perigee e. when the moon is closest to Earth 5. eccentric b. a noncircular planetary orbit

  6. Tonight’s homework Read Holt 65-69 Write a paragraph (See next slides.) We’ll decide when it is due as a class.

  7. Writing assignment Write a well-developed paragraph in which you connect something from your life with something you have read/seen in Holt. Make it a memoir by also connecting your thoughts with something that happened in history/real life. Give an insight that helps to make sense of your experience. Cite what you use from the text. Note: Pay close attention to your use of pronouns.

  8. Prompt for the memoir (optional) In your CB write about a life-changing moment in your life. It does not have to be THE most significant moment. Rather, choose one of the top moments that you do not mind someone (possibly) reading. I say possibly because one never knows who might peek into your CB sometime. Tell what happened and why it resonates as important to you.

  9. N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934) Kiowa tribe member Father, artist Mother, writer in folk tales of French, English, and Chinese origin Parents encouraged him to write (poetry, fiction) Taught jr. and sr. high school and college Won the Pulitzer Prize for his first novel

  10. Momaday: “Writing is a way of expressing your spirit. So there’s much more to it than the question of material success. You are out to save your soul after all, and be the best thing that you can be” (qtd. in Holt 54).

  11. Memoir Essay of personal experience Observations related to historical events, persons Often highly literary style Uses tropes like understatement, overstatement, repetition, or parallel structure

  12. The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)

  13. The Way to Rainy Mountain Memoir • Mixture of folklore, poetry, and personal experience • Three voices/narrators • Ancestral voice—tells folk lore • Historical voice—relates history • Authorial/personal voice—shares his feelings, life

  14. Close reading Notice the transition between lines 18 and 19 Pilgrimage (line 55) Time changes (lines 162 and 168)

  15. Close reading • Is his use of “you” appropriate in his introductory paragraph?

  16. Close reading “There are things in nature that engender an awful quiet in the heart of man: Devil’s Tower is one of them” (lines 85-86).

  17. Close reading Three voices/narrators • Ancestral voice—tells folk lore • Historical voice—relates history • Authorial/personal voice—shares his feelings, life • Give evidence of the three “narrators.”

  18. Close reading • “The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see, and they were bent and blind in the wilderness.” • Discuss this pulling sections from the text.

  19. Close reading Where do you see irony in the pages?

  20. Close reading • Discuss when Momaday’s purpose is to entertain, inform, and persuade in the text.

  21. Close reading • Talk about the contrasts in Momaday’s text.

  22. Close reading Teacher and scholar Kenneth M Roemer has argues that In the Way to Rainy Mountain, “Momaday links the survival of his people to their ability to remember, preserve and pass on stories” (quoted in Holt 63). Do you agree that a culture’s survival rests on this ability? Explain using evidence from this text.

  23. Close reading • What are some insights Momday gains about his heritage during his pilgrimage from Yellowstone to his grandmother’s grave at Rainy Mountain? What is the most important insight? Show evidence in the text.

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