McDougal Littell : LITERATURE

McDougal Littell : LITERATURE UNIT 5. Why Write? Author’s Purpose ♥ ★ ☆ ♡ ♤ ♠ ♧ ♣

Author’s Purpose The writer’s reason for crafting a particular work (can be known by the phrases the author uses)  to inform, to entertain, to persuade, to express thoughts or feelings, to teach the reader Ex) To alarm the reader  use statistics to describe a disaster Author’s Perspective • The unique combination of ideas, values, and beliefs that influences the way a writer looks at a topic (can be known by the words and phrases the author use, or is shown in direct sentences) • Journals and reports do not intentionally broadcast their values • (Journalists: ONLY report FACTS) • Essays and speeches: express their beliefs in a subtle way

ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE • Tone: expression of the writer’s attitude toward a subject • Diction=Syntax: word choice and the arrangement of those words • Classification: sort ideas or objects into groups that share common characteristics

ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE • Monitoring: check your understanding as you read and adjusting the reading strategies to improve comprehension • Imagery: words or phrases that recreate sensory experiences

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MS30207 SujinBaek ♥ NONFICTIONnnnnTHE PLOT AGAINST PEOPLE

Story style: Essay • Author: Russell Baker Inanimate Objects The Ultimate Goal: To RESIST man and to defeat human

Those that get lost • Objects have developed a secret method of locomotion able to hide away from the sight of a human •  Raises the owner’s blood pressure • Ex) Women’s wallet get lost and then found under a couch six or seven rooms away • (wallets, keys, pliers etc.)

Those that don’t work • Work once, usually for the first few hours after being brought home, and then never work again • Defeated man by making man never to expect anything of them • Ex) We do not expect the toy train to work after it has stopped working • (barometers, toy trains, flashlights, lighters etc.) Things that don’t work defeated man by making them give up, whereas things that break down and get lost has made man aspire

Humorous Essay? Complicated words and sentence structure (suitable for a scientific paper)  subject matter is related to our everyday lives. This contrast between his elevated style and the everyday topic creates a humorous tone

MS30213 EunSeo Lee ★ MEDIAaaaaaaah

News Reports • Reliability and usefulness About Twister Tendencies

News Reports • Credibility • the believability and trustworthiness of source and report

Questions to ask about…

News Report • Comprehension • Summarize and clarify • Media Literacy • Analyze credibility • Make judgements • Compare types of sources • Compare credibility

MS30206 Dohyun Park ♪ fictionnnnnnnAnd of clay are we created

AUTHOR: Isabel Allende • Writes about PASSIONATE LIVES • Born in a Chilean family w/ political ties • 1970s Exile into U.S. "Allende can spin a funny, sensual yarn, but she can also use her narrative skills to remind us that parallel to our placid and comfortable existence is another, invisible universe, one where poverty, misery and torture are all too real." -Patricia Hart, The Nation

PLOT • Narrator is Rolf Carle’s lover and companion, telling her & Rolf’s own experience of saving the girl • Geologists, aware of the coming volcanic eruption, set up seismological equipment • Inhabitants under the volcanic area did not believe the geologists and did not want to change their lives.

PLOT • ERUPTION • Rolf tried to rescue Azucena, meaning Lily. • Azucena could not breathe or move in the mud. • Rolf’s lover, the narrator, in vain asked high officials for help.

PLOT • As Rolf sang an Austrian song, he remembered his sore experience of being led by the Russians and his brutal father. • He suddenly remembered his sister Katherenawhom he had abandoned and felt love for Azucena.

PLOT • President of Republic promises Rolf that Azucena will be saved; indeed, she is. • As her life fades away, Rolf feels primal love for Azucena, more than for his own family or even the narrator. • Rolf and the narrator often goes to place where they found Azucena and feels the footage.

Dramatic finding of Azucena Rolf’s remembrance of his past Rolf&Narrator’s endless efforts to save Azucena Praying for Azucena’s peaceful death ERUPTION Rolf&Narrator’s normal life Geologists predict the volcanic eruption

AUTHOR’S PURPOSE • Allende was inspired by a TV news about Omaira Sanchez. I was finally able to decipher the message in those intense black eyes: patience, courage, resignation, dignity in the face of death (Quote by Allende, when her daughter died) try and communicate the meaning of Azucena's life and death we are all forced to confront our own suffering and the way that we have repressed it in our lives

MS30202 MinJung Kim ♠ poetryyyyyyy

Peruvian child • By Pat Mora

Pat Mora Pat Mora A Chicana author known primarily for her poetry and children’s books. Cultural preservationist

She whispered to the doll with no face, Smoothed the red and blue scraps Of cloth on the path, ironed them with her hand, Wrapped and re-wrapped the doll, hair Mud-tangled as the child’s, and the dog’s And the llama’s that followed the child’s Small bare feet after she bundled the doll In the striped manta on her back Descriptive language

Peruvian Child Still in the middle of my path is the Child With no smile who stared at us. Her eyes Even then the eyes of women who sell chickens And onions in outdoor markets. The women Who stare at us as if we are guards. Mood : fear

Figurative language The matted group stood by the edge of the spring Watching us drink clear, holy water of the Inca, A fountain of youth, our guide said. We wanted, as usual, to hold a picture Of the child in a white border, not to hold her Mud-crusted hands or feet or face, Not to hold her, the child in our arms. irony

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McDougal Littell : LITERATURE