Tuesday, December 10 Vocabulary 3 cumulative assessment; figurative language review

In class: vocabulary 3 cumulative assessment.  I hope you looked at your study cards or list. A few people never turned turned in their vocabulary 3 exercises. If you were absent last Thursday when we they were handed out in class with the expectation that if you did not finish them, they were to be completed for homework, please turn them in now.  For anyone else this is your last opportunity to turn in the vocabulary 3 exercises.  moving on...........

In  class: review of the figurative language that you were to have completed in class yesterday.

Test on this material on Friday. 

Copy of yesterday's classwork. This was also on yesterday's blog.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE PRACTICE

Please read over the definitions for the following figurative language devices; then identify the examples that follow.

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1.       . A simile is a figure of speech where two inherently different things are compared to one another using expressions like 'like' or 'as'

2.      .  A palindrome can be defined as a word or a phrase, which begins and finishes with the same letter.

3.       . metaphors are linguistic symbols that convey a particular image. It is a figure of speech wherein an idea is given to provide clarity by comparing or associating it to another totally different idea.

4.       . oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two contradictory or inappropriate terms are either put together or appear side by side.

5.       .litotes is defined as 'an ironical understatement in which affirmative is expressed by the negation of the opposite'. In this figure of speech, the usages are intentional, ironical and provide emphasis to the words. This is mainly done through double negatives. To put it in simple terms, in litotes, instead of saying that something is attractive, you say that it is not unattractive.

6.        A synecdoche is a  figure of speech where part of a sentence describes the entirety.

7.       imagery  is vivid descriptions and comparisons with the help of sound words, helps recreate images and emotions. This device which needs to be aided with other figures of speech like similes, metaphors and personification etc. to effectively crop a picture within the minds eyes. Always remember, the key to good imagery is evoking all the senses. There are seven different kinds of imagery; visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile, organic, olfactory and gustatory

8.       . An allusion is a brief reference, explicit or indirect to a person, place or event or to another literary work or passage.

9.      .  apostrophes are words spoken to a person or object which is inherently imaginary object or is an abstract idea.

1   personification is  when we associate a human quality or trait with a non-living object.

1.            In capitalism, money is the life blood of society and charity is the soul.

2.            The wind whispered the rumors of the forest.

3.            Zip up your pants.

4.            Racecar

5.            The promise between us was a delicate flower.

6.            "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still."

7.            He pleaded for her forgiveness but Janet’s heart was cold iron.

8.            Heat waves are not rare in the summer.

9.            I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas

10.          Borrow or rob?

11.          Toby manipulated the people in his life as though they were chess pieces.

12.          "She was breathtakingly beautiful, but he knew that she was forbidden fruit."

13.          Cassie talked to her son about girls as though she were giving him tax advice.

14.          Their prayers were like mayflies in June.

15.          No lemon, no melon

16.          With the click of a mouse I can open another window on my computer.

17.          Fully empty

18.          "Roll on thou dark and deep Blue Ocean." - from "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" by Lord Byron

19.          The birds like to tweet outside my window.

20.          The people who still lived in the town were stuck in place like wax statues.

Monday December 9 figurative language practice

DUE today:  nothing!
Tomorrow: cumulative assessment on week 3 vocabulary.  Use your study cards or sheet you created last week.
In class: figurative language review.  class handout / copy below

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE PRACTICE

Please read over the definitions for the following figurative language devices; then identify the examples that follow.

This is due at the end of class today.

1.       A simile is a figure of speech where two inherently different things are compared to one another using expressions like 'like' or 'as'

2.       A palindrome can be defined as a word or a phrase, which begins and finishes with the same letter.

3.       metaphors are linguistic symbols that convey a particular image. It is a figure of speech wherein an idea is given to provide clarity by comparing or associating it to another totally different idea.

4.       oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two contradictory or inappropriate terms are either put together or appear side by side.

5.       litotes is defined as 'an ironical understatement in which affirmative is expressed by the negation of the opposite'. In this figure of speech, the usages are intentional, ironical and provide emphasis to the words. This is mainly done through double negatives. To put it in simple terms, in litotes, instead of saying that something is attractive, you say that it is not unattractive.

6.       A synecdoche is a  figure of speech where part of a sentence describes the entirety.

7.       imagery  is vivid descriptions and comparisons with the help of sound words, helps recreate images and emotions. This device which needs to be aided with other figures of speech like similes, metaphors and personification etc. to effectively crop a picture within the minds eyes. Always remember, the key to good imagery is evoking all the senses. There are seven different kinds of imagery; visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile, organic, olfactory and gustatory

8.       An allusion is a brief reference, explicit or indirect to a person, place or event or to another literary work or passage.

9.       apostrophes are words spoken to a person or object which is inherently imaginary object or is an abstract idea.

10.    personification is  when we associate a human quality or trait with a non-living object.

1.            In capitalism, money is the life blood of society and charity is the soul.

2.            The wind whispered the rumors of the forest.

3.            Zip up your pants.

4.            Racecar

5.            The promise between us was a delicate flower.

6.            "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still."

7.            He pleaded for her forgiveness but Janet’s heart was cold iron.

8.            Heat waves are not rare in the summer.

9.            I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas

10.          Borrow or rob?

11.          Toby manipulated the people in his life as though they were chess pieces.

12.          "She was breathtakingly beautiful, but he knew that she was forbidden fruit."

13.          Cassie talked to her son about girls as though she were giving him tax advice.

14.          Their prayers were like mayflies in June.

15.          No lemon, no melon

16.          With the click of a mouse I can open another window on my computer.

17.          Fully empty

18.          "Roll on thou dark and deep Blue Ocean." - from "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" by Lord Byron

19.          The birds like to tweet outside my window.

20.          The people who still lived in the town were stuck in place like wax statues.

Friday, December 6- Vietnam gallery walk.

Due today: week 3 vocabulary--cumulative test on Tuesday. Use your study cards. There will be no retest.

In class: Vietnam gallery walk. This is anticipation of reading Tim O'Brien's short story "On the Rainy River"

There is an accompanying graphic organizer, which will be a writing grade. You will look at 15 pictures and respond to them.

I am unable to post the 15 images. If you are absent, please go to google- or bing- and type in Vietnam photos in black and white. Choose 15 varying photos and for each of the 15 answer respond to the following: 

1. Write exactly what you see; be specific in terms of people and setting.  Use descriptive adjectives. It is not necessary to have complete sentences.

2. Write two descriptive adjectives that reflect your feelings when you view the picture.

3. What purpose did the photographer have in taking the photo?

Thursday, December 5- vocabulary day week 3

You have class time to work on vocabulary 3. I will collect these tomorrow.  There are already copies on Tuesday's blog, IF YOU MISPLACE YOURS OR ARE ABSENT. You are required to make flash cards during class today. This is a graded participation assignment, which I will check before the close of class.

THIS IS INDEPENDENT WORK. IF YOU FEEL THAT IT IS NECESSARY TO SHARE INFORMATION WITH ANYONE, PLEASE ACCEPT YOUR ZERO WITH EQUANIMITY.

CUMULATIVE TEST TUESDAY; STUDY THIS TIME- THERE WILL BE NO RETEST!

Wednesday, December 4 in class essay

In class essay today: you will receive a fresh copy of a "Story of an Hour" as a reference for your textual evidence.  You may not use a graphic organizer.

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin

In a well-written paragraph respond to the following, making sure to weave in a minimum of five textual  examples from the short story.  You may only use the fresh copy of the story as a reference.

Begin with a MLA heading.

Due at the close of class. 

What view of marriage does “The Story of an Hour” present? 

Tuesday, December 3...finishing up review of Story of an Hour graphic organizer

In class; there, their, they're exercise---first grade for marking period 3
In class: finishing up "Story of an Hour" graphic organizer

You will be writing on this in class tomorrow. If you are curious, check the blog later.

NEW WORK: VOCABULARY WEEK 3, DAYS 1-4 
DUE Monday; NOT BEFORE...YOU WILL HAVE A CUMULATIVE ASSESSMENT ON Tuesday, DECEMBER 9 ON THE 20 WORDS AND 4 IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS

handouts in class; copies below
MAKE FLASHCARDS as you go along; look up the words, if you are unsure.  You will not receive back the exercises before the test.

Monday, December 1- cumulative vocab test week 2, review of The Story of an hour

Anyone who was absent last Tuesday may turn in their vocabulary week 2 work sheets. As well, this is your last opportunity to turn in "The Red Convertible" essay or "The Story of an Hour" graphic organizer. We are reviewing this in class today.  Unless, I have yours now, you will keep your zero.


In class: cumulative test week 2.....this is your last grade of this marking period. I'm passing back your essays, while you take the test.

HOMEWORK: due Tuesday, December 3
there, their and they're
There were many, many errors on the essays.  their is a possessive pronoun, as in ownership,

 there refers to a physical or abstract place. Usually, if you can replace there with here in the same sentence, and it still makes sense, then you are using it correctly and they're is a contraction for they are...now if you avoid contractions in a formal essay-like I told you-it will never be a problem.

CLASS HANDOUT; COPY BELOW

Graphic organizer review.  We are going over this in preparation for a short in-class essay on Wednesday.

Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.	How might heart trouble be more than a physical ailment? Note that this is the first thing we are told about her and how other people respond to her. Evidently this is--at least for those around her--an important part of who she is.
It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband's friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard's name leading the list of "killed." He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.	1.       Why is she tantalizing her with hints? 2.        What does this suggest about how the family views Mrs. M.? 3.       What does this paragraph suggest about Richards' feelings for Mrs. M? 4.        Why is he in such a hurry? Is the code of the "southern gentleman" at work here, or could there be more to his concern than that?
She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her	1.       Why are we first told how she does NOT hear the news? What does this reaction suggest about her? about how "ladies" were expected to react? 2. What does this passionate response tell us about her? This is our first real clue as to what sort of person she is--aside from her reported state of health.
There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.	1.       How are the window and chair descriptions suggestive of longing or desire? What do they imply about her ordinary life? 2.       What does this very dramatic (even melodramatic) statement suggest about her psychological state?
She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.	1.       Note the contrast of motion and stillness. Why is the time of year so important? 2.       Delicious ordinarily refers to taste. Who is "tasting" here? 3.       She too has been "crying." What does this detail, as well as the other sensory images, tell you about what she is experiencing?
There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window.	1.       How does this picture represent symbolically what she sees about her situation?
She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams.	1.       Why is she compared to a dreaming child?
She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought.	1.       What does her face tell you about her life? 2.       What sort of emotional state is she in?
here was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. But she felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air.	3.       In your first reading, what do you guess that "something" might be?
Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will --aspowerless as her two white slender hands would have been. When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!" The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body.	1.       What does this description of her hands suggest? 2.       What is happening to her? Why does she repeat "free? 3.       Note how the sensuality of what she sees has been tranferred to her body. Why might she react this way?
She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her. A clear and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial. She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome.	1.       Who would consider this joy "monstrous"? 2.       There seems to be no question whether her husband loved her, is there? What clues are there of HOW he loved her?
There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.	1.       What cherished domestic and 19th century myth does Chopin challenge here? 2.       Here Chopin--or is it Mrs. Mallard?-- is making a very general statement about relationships, particularly between men and women. How does it apply to this case?
And yet she had loved him--sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being! "Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering. Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the keyhold, imploring for admission. "Louise, open the door! I beg; open the door-- you will make yourself ill. What are you doing, Louise? For heaven's sake open the door."	1.       Again, body and soul are connected. How does this anticipate the end? 2.       What does Josephine's plea say about the expectations of those around Louise (now given a name)?
"Go away. I am not making myself ill." No; she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window. Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long. She arose at length and opened the door to her sister's importunities. There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory. She clasped her sister's waist, and together they descended the stairs. Richards stood waiting for them at the bottom.	1.       elixir (from Middle English, a substance of transmutative properties) 1. a sweetened aromatic solution of alcohol and water, used as a vehicle for medicine. 2. a medicine regarded as a cure for all ills. 3. the philosophers' stone. 4. the quintessence or underlying principle. How do these different definitions shed light on her revelation? 2.       Just what is coming through an "open window"? 3.       What has she conquered that would make her seem victorious?
Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of the accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine's piercing cry; at Richards' quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife. But Richards was too late. When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease --of the joy that kills.	1.       Why is he stained by travel if he was not on the train? 2.       It is a "grip-sack," not a "briefcase" or "suitcase"; what does this word suggest