September 2, 2014 EQ: How does language shape meaning? Warm- Up: Tone Up

1. September 2, 2014 EQ: How does language shape meaning? Warm- Up: Tone Up Whimsical: playful and fanciful, imaginative in a strange, pleasing way. Dejected: sad and dispirited; depressed Baffled: to be totally bewildered or perplexed; distressingly confused Surely this couldn’t be right, but here he was, in a bed that was not his own and lying next to a woman that looked almost exactly like his wife only much older.

2. Procedure: • Choose your best example of a journal from The Once and Future King. • Decide which rhetorical device you will write about. Possible choices: imagery, figurative language, paradox, allusion, irony, repetition, etc. • On a sheet of loose leaf paper set you paper up in the correct format: • Attach your new analysis to the 10 journal entries for this text. If you have no other entries, turn it in alone.

3. Your Name Pre-AP English __(period) Date Dialectical Journal for The Once and Future King Quote: (Here you will copy your quote along with the page number) Rhetorical analysis paragraph: Your response MUST consist of the following: 1. Sentence one: Identify the text and the rhetorical device you are going to discuss. 2. Introduce your quote (Since you are discussing rhetorical devices, you should focus on how the author uses the device. 3. Provide a quote illustrating the device Explain how using this device adds to the meaning of the passage. When you have finished, staple your journal to the top of the others and turn them into the box. Then read all of Politics and the English Lang. and annotate your assigned section.

4. September 3, 2014 EQ: How do rhetorical devices shape meaning? Tone-Up: Day 5 Tone Words Disgruntled: displeased and discontented; to be grouchy and pouty Indifferent: without interest or concern; to not care one way or the other; apathetic Moralistic: characterized by or expressive of a narrow moral attitude; judgmental; eager to stand in judgment of others, especially those whose values do not exactly match your own. If you get a tattoo, it’s okay by me, as long as you don’t mind moving out of my house and paying the bill for treating the infection you’ll incur from using the same needle that’s been used on drug addicts, biker chicks, and who knows what.

5. Your Name Pre-AP English __(period) Date Dialectical Journal for 1984 Quote: (Here you will copy your quote along with the page number) Rhetorical analysis paragraph: Your response MUST consist of the following: 1. Sentence one: Identify the text and the rhetorical device you are going to discuss. 2. Introduce your quote (Since you are discussing rhetorical devices, you should focus on how the author uses the device. 3. Provide a quote illustrating the device Explain how using this device adds to the meaning of the passage. When you have finished, staple your journal to the top of the others and turn them into the box. Then read all of Politics and the English Lang. and annotate your assigned section.

6. September 4, 2014 EQ: How does language shape meaning? Warm-up: Tone Quiz TIMED – 10 MINUTES Directions: Get out “Politics and the English Language” and place it on your desk. Get out a sheet of paper and set it up as follows: Name PAP English ___ Sept. 4, 2014 Tone Quiz Tone word One or two sentences explaining why that tone fits the passage with a quote from the passage for support. 2. 3. 4. 5. Read the caption and look at the picture to determine tone.

7. Brief discussion of Politics and the English Language Orwell’s Key Points: Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Section 5 Partners: Guided passage analysis of 1984 This analysis will culminate in a essay proving tone. Guided analysis is due on FRIDAY

8. ORWELL’S SIX RULES Do not use metaphors that you are use to reading in other texts. The use of an effective shorter word is better than longer inappropriate words If you can remove an extraneous word from a sentence, do so accordingly. Abstain from the use of the passive tense when the active tense if available. Refrain from the use of scientific jargon, and foreign words if you can find the colloquial equivalent Break these rules rather than saying anything monstrous.

9. September 5. 2014 EQ: How do I write a thesis statement? In the warm-up section of your binder start a new page. Title this page journal entries. Write the following question and response: Why do we read and write literature? http://mashable.com/2014/01/12/apple-commercial-uses-poetry-to-profile-the-ipad-as-a-creative-tool/ Pair share with annotations Thesis Power Point Practice writing thesis

10. In you groups complete the following: 1. Read through the passage one time 2. Each person in the group will share their answers. The passage should be completely annotated by the end of the discussion of questions. After discussion is complete – write your thesis statement Follow this format for the thesis statement: In 1984, George Orwell creates a ______________ tone in the opening paragraphs through his use of (rhetorical device) and (rhetorical device). Homework: Complete a KERNAL ESSAY for Monday In 1984, George Orwell creates a __________ tone in the opening paragraphs through his use Of (rhetorical device) and (rhetorical device) 1. Orwell uses ……… 1. quote 2. quote 2. Orwell uses 1. quote 2. quote