Don't forget to close read "The Roseto Mystery" for Friday's class. You will receive a handout with the official assignment tomorrow, and you may use this handout to create an outline for the essay. (I hope you like the border.)
Don't forget to bring in your index cards if you are choosing the flashcard route for Monday's class. If you do not like the idea of flashcards, I will have notebooks for you.
During class, we performed our first close read on "Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes. Using color marking (one color per rhetorical strategy), we identified repeating strategies (motifs, tones, diction, syntax, and so on) and constructed small paragraph analyses to reflect the author's purpose. This is the basis of rhetorical analysis and what will be your first steps in constructing essays.
First hour, you definitely impressed with the confidence and thoroughness of your responses. Every group grasped onto a strategy and there was such a variety of selections and explanations. Paradox, persuasion, pronouns were big hits for me. We will work on a longer close read tomorrow.
Third hour, there was a great pause before the class strategy, but you more than made up for hesitancy by looking at how rhetorical questions, passive diction, and final statements construct a sarcasm to the assignment, the professor, and the society. Volunteer or random groups will share tomorrow and then we will have more close reading.
Seventh hour, what an impressive team effort to describe the setting moving from small (college town) to large (America) and how this could reflect a ripple effect from one person's ideological change (the teacher) to society as a whole. Volunteer or random groups will share your third color marking tomorrow.
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