Friday, November 3, 2017

Unit 3: The Power of Voice

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AMNESTY DAY AND LAST GRADES

  • I will no longer collect either the giant packet or the analysis chart for a grade. But you may turn in the analysis chart for up to 25 points of extra credit. For most of you that keep on top of things, this will be a better deal. Email me if you have any questions. .
  • On Wednesday, you will have the class period to recover any missed assignments -- they must be completed and submitted by the end of the period. Be prepared -- I will not be printing lost handouts for you. Here is the sliding scale of late penalties --
    • Assignments from 7/31 to 9/14 -- 70% off
    • Assignments from 9/15 to 11/2 -- 50% off
    • Assignments from 11/2 to now -- 30% off
  • You can also work on the Analysis chart for up to 25 points extra credit, due at the beginning of class on Thursday.  Be careful that you do not share your work too widely.  I do not give out extra credit lightly, and so I will not accept your work if I start seeing a lot of similar answers.  You need to complete one theme for each of the stories that we read in class (the top block and the bottom block). Well-developed, well-elaborated, and well-supported responses will earn the most points.
  • And I think that's about all folks.  On to preparing for the final exam on Thursday.

SNOW PLAN -- 

  • We will still have the unit test on Tuesday, but I will make it open-note since we did not have time to review -- you may use the "giant packet" with handwritten notes on the packet only.  The test and the final exam will include the following texts (the blue ones will be luke-warm reads, and there will be one more truly cold reading -- it will be a poem similar to the ones in the packet); the test will also have a cold rhetorical reading (see below this list for details):


  • Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son” (1925).......................................... page 3


  • Langston Hughes’ Dream Poems (1921-1951).................................. page 4


  • Countee Cullen’s “Tableau” (1925) and “Saturday’s Child” (1924) ...... pages 5-6


  • Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby”  (1893).......................................... pages 11-15


  • Kate Chopin’s “Emancipation. A Life Fable” (1869)............................ pages 15


  • Louise Erdrich’s “The Red Convertible” (1984) ………….……………pages 20-26


  • Joseph Bruchac’s “Ellis Island” (1993).............................................. page 27


  • Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Ceremony” (1977) ....................................... page 28

    •  The test will also include a cold reading that will cover the rhetorical analysis skills, similar to the quiz you took over the excerpt from Nickel and Dimed.  Here is a copy of the quiz, and here is a copy of the key so you can check your answers. Email me at krista.bowen@cobbk12.org if you cannot remember what you answered and I will send it back to you.

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