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November 2 nd through 6 th. Monday, November 2 nd. Practice Multiple Choice Reading Check Quiz (short) Close reading of Chapter 1 Evidence/commentary assignment SL background research assignment. Tip of the Day. Make sure you answer the prompt. Chapter 1. Discuss main idea
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Monday, November 2nd • Practice Multiple Choice • Reading Check Quiz (short) • Close reading of Chapter 1 • Evidence/commentary assignment • SL background research assignment
Tip of the Day • Make sure you answer the prompt
Chapter 1 • Discuss main idea • How does Hawthorne create anticipation regarding the rest of the novel? • Circle map • Inner= meaning • Outer= phrases essential to making meaning • Function= grouping; • Example on board • Assign students motifs • Find 3 quotes for your motif
Scarlet Letter Reading Schedule • 1-5 due today • 6-16 due Friday, November 6th • 17-21 due Monday, November 9th • 22-end due Wednesday, November 11th
Tuesday, November 3rd • Peer evaluation of synthesis essays
Tip of the Day • Show your work (thinking). You’ll be rewarded for what you do well.
Happy Tuesday • Now, the use of culture is that it helps us, by means of its spiritual standard of perfection, to regard wealth but as machinery, and not only to say as a matter of words that we regard wealth but as machinery, but really to perceive and feel that it is so. If it were not for this purging effect wrought upon our minds by culture, the whole world, the future as well as the present, would inevitably belong to the Philistines. • Matthew Arnold • Put the first sentence into your own words. How does the sentence’s complexity add to its impact? • Where are the most important words in the second sentence of this passage--at the beginning or at the end? What effect does this have on the reader?
Groupings for 2nd period • Group 1 • Haley Cowan • Amy Kalinowski • Ryan Naziri • Richard Bowser • LexiMichels • Group 2 • Rebecca Stephenson • Austin Bath • Caroline Whitehurst • Nora Sugar • Amanda Jones • Priya Patel • Group 3 • Danielle Moloney • Browne Warren • Jerrod Powers • Casey Oliver • Casey Daly • AshlynAycock • Group 4 • Michael Phillips • Louisa Clark • Jordan-Marie Smith • Forrest Cherry • Sarah Phillips • Emma Grace Moore • Group 5 • Olivia Frere • Anna Ormond • Charlie Shelton • Colleen MacGilvray • Bryan Hernandez • Chavonna Counts • Group 6 • Natalie Ballard • Morgan Green • Molly Gidley • Emma Tucker • Chase Smith
Groupings for 3rd period • Group 1 • Bailey Hu • KylerZary • Lindsay Tyndall • Christine Hong • Will Lee • Chrissy McMillan • Group 2 • Anna Stephenson • Shanthi Ravi • ArunAjmera • Mary Katherine Owens • Brenda Simiyu • Molly Kerrigan • Group 3 • Jamie Cook • Brenna Owens • Hillary Weismiller • Kristen Joyner • Kelen Townsend • Kristen Easters • Group 4 • Kyle Leggett • Kara Gay • Danielle Mitchell • Jenna Hanna • Julia Webber • FaizahSiddiqi • Group 5 • Brittany Avin • Daniela Pimentel • Ryan Qualliotine • Marta Lambert • Lauren Frazier • Lindsey Corbett
Wednesday, November 4th • Vocabulary Words • Modern-Day Hester Assignment • Paraphrase activity
Tip of the Day • Analyze. Show how a resource of language (a rhetorical or literary device) works.
Welcome to class • You need: • Informed Argument • Notebook • Writing implement • You need: • Identify three kinds of notes: Summary, quote, and paraphrase • Write summary, paraphrase, and quote note cards • INSTRUCTIONS: • What is/should be man’s relationship with nature? Write a paragraph presenting your position on this question. • Write as much as you can in five minutes. Do not stop or pick up your pen(cil).
Summary • Reducing large chunk of text to small: • Paragraph, section, article 1-5 sentences • Support position with expert opinion. • Express a key concept • Set up an anticipated argument • In Thoreau’s “Walking” he asserts that man, in his ideal state, is wild.
Paraphrase • Translate another writer’s ideas into your own words. • 1 sentence=1 phrase or sentence • Writer controls language • Use specific information, ideas, facts • Thoreau: man experiences life most fully when he surrounds himself with nature.
Quote • Writing another author’s words verbatim • Only when words can/should not be replaced • Can be: • three word phrase • sentence or two • More (include one long quote) • Credibility of authority’s voice • Supports your claim • Always elaborate on it • Thoreau: “All good things are wild and free.”
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson • What do we know about this author and text? • Assignment: • Read pp. 420-426 • Consider how article helps answer: What is/should be our relationship with nature? • Write 4 notes: • Summary • 2 paraphrase • Quote • Share with a neighbor.
Thursday, November 5th • More synthesis activities
Tip of the Day • Understand the scale of abstraction: from the concrete to the abstract. Play on that scale
Friday, November 6th • Reading Check quiz • Synthesis essay 2
Tip of Day • Talk intelligently about tone. At least be able to identify formal vs. informal.