Homework and Vocabulary August 20-24

Homework- August 20-24, 27

Due Tuesday, August 21

·         Read Chapter 4, p. 126-145

·         Complete ALL  Questions for Close Reading on “Fourth of July” p. 143

·         Questions About the Writers Craft #3, 4, p. 144

Due Wednesday, August 22

·         No class, double evens ( even though I will not be collecting this until Thursday, it would be a good idea to break up the homework between two nights. ).

·         Read “Shooting an Elephant” p. 146

·         Complete ALL Questions for Close Reading p. 152

·         Questions about the Writers Craft #1,4, p. 152

Due Thursday, August 23

·         Read “Someone’s Mother” p. 154

·         Complete ALL Questions for Close Reading p.156

·         Questions about the Writers Craft # 2,4, p. 156

·         Read “Salvation” p. 158

·         Complete ALL Questions for Close Reading p. 160

·         Write an essay,  #3 , p.161

Due Friday, August 24

·         Write a narrative essay. Pick a topic from p. 173 - Handwritten DOUBLE SPACED

·         Study for vocabulary quiz

Due Monday, August 27

·         Final draft for the narrative essay. Typed, MLA- due at the end of the school day on Monday. Peer reviewed rough draft attached.

·         Blog Post #6

Vocabulary- August 20-24

ASYNDETON- The omission of conjunctions between related clauses.
Ex: "This is the villain among you who deceived you, who cheated you, who meant to betray you completely." (Aristotle)

POLYSYNDETON- Repetition of conjunctions in close succession.
Ex: "We have ships and men and money and stores."

SYLLOGISM- Logical reasoning from inarguable premises.

Ex. If Johnny is eating sweets every day, he is placing himself at risk for diabetes. Johnny does not eat sweats everyday. Therefore Johnny is not placing himself at risk for diabetes.

ALLUSION is a short, informal reference to a famous person or event.

Ex. “You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first. 'Tis a word too great for any mouth of this age's size.” –Shakespeare

Pleonasm: using more words than required to express an idea; being redundant.

Ex. “The vote was completely and totally unanimous.” (A unanimous vote cannot be anything but complete and total.)

Exemplum: Figure of amplification using an example, brief or extended, real or fictitious, to illustrate a point; an example. Examples can be introduced by the obvious choice of "For example," but there are other possibilities. For quick introductions, such as those attached to a sentence, you migiht use "such as," or "for instance." Examples placed into separate sentences can be introduced by "A case in point," "An instance," "A typical situation,"  "A common example," "To illustrate, let's consider the situation," and so forth.

Ex. "All this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans, traditionally, love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. Now, I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed." – George C. Scott

Metanoia (correctio) qualifies a statement by recalling it (or part of it) and expressing it in a better, milder, or stronger way. A negative is often used to do the recalling.

Ex. “The chief thing to look for in impact sockets is hardness; no, not so much hardness as resistance to shock and shattering.”

Anacoluthon: finishing a sentence with a different grammatical structure from that with which it began.

Ex. “Be careful with these two devices because improperly used they can--well, I have cautioned you enough.”