October 2 - 6

October is here.  Crisp(er) mornings, costumes, caramel apples, and...English class!

I am excited to continue adding rhetorical terms to your list, and to share another reading and activity packet this week: Close Reading and Analysis. I admit, it may not have the most exciting title, but it does have some interesting passages as well as a lot of good reference sheets in the back for writing essays and papers.  Here's what's on the agenda for the week:

MONDAY/TUESDAY: Journal warm-up. Discuss and analyze Apollo articles, define syntax, anaphora, repetition as rhetorical terms. Pictures as arguments, and how to write about them.  Notes: tone. Tone activity.  Pass out Close Reading and Analysis packet (Packet #2).

Due: Please read and annotate the 3 Apollo articles on pages 10-14 of the Rhetorical Analysis Packet and perform a SOAPS analysis on each of them, (not the cartoon on page 15).

Homework: Read and annotate Elizabeth I's Speech to the Troops at Tilbury on page 1 of the Close Reading packet.  How would you describe her tone in throughout this speech?  Does it shift?  Is this an effective speech? Be ready to share annotations and discuss.  

Read On Bird, Bird Watching, and Jazz in the Close Reading packet, and read through the questions on page 3, jotting down answers and ideas in your own packet.

WEDNESDAY: (5th period only). Journal warm-up.  Presentation from the College and Career Center.

Due: n/a

Homework (same as Monday): Read and annotate Elizabeth I's Speech to the Troops at Tilbury on page 1 of the Close Reading packet.  How would you describe her tone in throughout this speech?  Does it shift?  Is this an effective speech? Be ready to share annotations and discuss.  

Read On Bird, Bird Watching, and Jazz in the Close Reading packet, and read through the questions on page 3, jotting down answers and ideas in your own packet. 

THURSDAY/FRIDAY: Journal warm-up.  Quiz covering vocab #4, grammar.  Go over Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, watch video of reenactment. Go over answers to page 3 in Close Reading packet. Definition of irony, irony videos demonstrating the definition.

Due: Read and annotate Elizabeth I's Speech to the Troops at Tilbury on page 1 of the Close Reading packet.  How would you describe her tone in throughout this speech?  Does it shift?  Is this an effective speech? Be ready to share annotations and discuss.  

Read On Bird, Bird Watching, and Jazz in the Close Reading packet, and read through the questions on page 3, jotting down answers and ideas in your own packet.

Homework:   Please read pages 4- 10 in the Close Reading packet, including Joan Didion's Santa Ana Winds.  Please annotate it yourself in your current annotation style in the Close Reading packet on page 6.  Then, read the information about annotating on pages 7-10.

How can you sharpen your reading and annotating skills?  Be ready to discuss.