Print out and annotate these stories. Highlight important sentences. If there is not enough room for annotations on the printout, write notes in your binder. Focus on how different types of literary rhetoric (organization of plot, details, characterization, dialogue, imagery, mood/tone, shifts, setting, figurative language, connotations of diction, etc.) support a theme. Indicate page numbers, paragraph numbers, and line numbers, as appropriate. You might consider doing the "Shorter Analysis Activity" to better understand the texts: https://scholarmulhern.blogspot.com/2019/11/analysis-of-text-shorter-version.html. This part of the assignment is optional. I want you to read the stories, annotate them, and think of good discussion questions, although the questions do not have to be written down.
"The Lowest Animal" by Mark Twain (electronic textbook, Unit 5)
Read the text. Then do the following:
Read this comedic story by Edgar Allan Poe, who is most known for his tales of horror. Click on the link.
Read, annotate (at least 20 annotations), and create the nine important reading questions (see Canvas) with answers for "Building the Transcontinental Railroad." Look up and memorize all words you do not know. Write the definitions down. Remember, there is also a required Vocabulary section in the Important Reading Questions document. You must have an Annotations document and an Important Reading questions document (electronic and printed-out versions).
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
Take notes on the main argument, important points, and examples of effective rhetoric. For the text, provide the following (You will need to use Google to research biography and historical context):
Please read every post very carefully (twice if needed). There may be a lot of important information in each post.
You will read all of the speeches listed at the bottom of this post. Take notes on the main argument, important points, and examples of effective rhetoric. For each text, provide the following (You will need to use Google to research biography and historical context):
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/sgthing.html
Read and annotate the text, as well as complete the usual assignment of a Word document for important reading questions (Canvas) and answers (with vocabulary). You should also, as usual, have a Word document for the annotations. (electronic document on computer and printed-out document in binder, as usual)
Complete the usual assignment of a Word document for the Important Reading Questions (see Canvas) and answers with textual support. You should also have a vocabulary section, as usual. Keep an electronic document on your computer and a printed-out document in your binder, as usual.
(Image and text from The Berkley Center)
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| Still Life After Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein (1964) |
Email: james.mulhern@browardschools.com. Please do not email assignments to me. You must give all assignments to me in hard-copy form. |
Please see the notes you took in class on October 25, 2022. You must exactly follow those directions or you will lose points. As usual, you must have an electronic copy on your laptop and a printed-out copy in your binder on the day the assignment is due. As usual, this assignment could be collected at any time during the semester, not just the due date.
Editing and Proofreading of MLA Documents
Remember that next Analysis Essay is due on Tuesday, October 18. No late papers accepted. Refer to handout distributed in class on October 13, 2022.
Harriet Jacobs, in her narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, displays a strong, angry tone toward the hypocrisy and double standard of white Christian men. Using anecdotes, figurative language, pathos, anaphora, loaded language, and rhetorical questions, Jacobs effectively points out the atrocious institution of slavery and some white men's indifference to the suffering African Americans endure. Her narrative powerfully illustrates the skillful use of rhetoric to argue the immorality of slavery and the callousness of so-called Christians.
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| The Break-Up of the Ice, Claude Monet (no date) |
Scholars,
For all readings assigned in the electronic textbook, you are responsible for memorizing the selected vocabulary at the beginning of the texts (not the vocabulary in any margin). There are usually five or six words the editors have chosen. You do not need to do the activities in the textbook unless I tell you to do so. You must be sure, however, that you know the meanings of the words the editors chose to highlight. You could be quizzed at any time on these vocabulary words.
Rubric for "Notes on Rhetoric" Assignment
Errors in the following list result in a lower grade on this assignment. The more mistakes you made, the lower your grade. (Remember--Keep an original copy of all your assignments. Also remember to record every grade: points you earned out of total possible points.) I have chosen to not capitalize or end punctuate the list below, as some of the items are phrases--this is for consistency. (Some entries may be repeated because I read all submissions and may have repeated a comment.)
Copy and paste this post into a Word document and keep it in your binder. Refer to this rubric in the future before you turn in your work.
