The Clock

First hour, what a way to start off our semester with a flying clock shattering on the floor! As noted, we don't need time to measure our class - especially when we looked at a variety of elements during class.

 For all hours, we started off with a new set of vocabulary words, unit 16, which runs the gamut from recreant to salacious and back again (lots o' synonyms happening). We will start up this cycle of words tomorrow- and we may just go back to our previous units to see if you still have the same vernacular that you have the new year that you had in the past year.

Then, you received your argument essays back - with the option to revise for an improved grade in the next 24 hours at 2:40 p.m.

Next, you filled an index cards with writing topics that we will be using during our tone work during the semester.

Continuing on, you received your allusion poster project and your 4 assigned allusions for the month.

To end the hour, I gave you a list of 24 rhetorical strategies that you will need to have defined - with confidence - for tomorrow's class. You will be participating with definitions, and then using these definitions to answer questions.

Alliteration
Allusion
Anadiplosis
Anaphora
asyndeton
Complex sentence
Compound sentence
Cumulative sentence
Declarative sentence
Epistrophe
Epithets
Euphemism
Exclamatory sentence
Imperative sentence
Interrogative sentence
Malapropism
Metonymy
Periodic sentence
Personification
Polysyndeton
Simple sentence
Synecdoche
Telegraphic syntax
Zeugma