All in an Hour - Give or Take

All classes reviewed vocabulary today, which means the vocab quiz is tomorrow! This will a short and sweet quiz - matching and defining, nothing more, since we have only 15 words in this round. Fun fact - vocabulary does not go away! Your are retaining these words and their meanings for the rest of the year and, in theory, your lives.

And if any of you are in need of our second reading, you are in luck: The Story of an Hour.

1: We completed our reading of "Story of an Hour," and what a grand participatory environment that this story fostered! Rhetorical analysis is all the what you notice (patterns, comparisons, shifts, and more specific strategies) and why the author would include that strategy in the text. Hence, starting with our pathos-fueled sentiments at the beginning, you were noting how the lachrymose Mrs. Mallard shed her feathers (sorry, it had to happen) into a joyous (monstrous, of course) personage with lots of exclamation points! After you assembled in a group, you determined the purpose and what strategies your group would like to analyze from the passage. Then, each of you have a strategy to write a paragraph. If absent, select a strategy and write an analytical paragraph.

3: After feedback on "Theme" and its third strategy, we recapped rhetorical analysis with a bare bones approach of the main strategies, non-lame purposes, and rhetorical triangle. Tomorrow we will start our next text!

4: After recapping rhetorical analysis, we had a strong break down of "Story of an Hour" and its plethora of strategies (yes, you can get that much from one sentence, as evidenced by our analysis of the opening paragraph). With such a strong, participation-fueled class, your homework should be a great way to recap our reading: determine the purpose of the Chopin text.

7: Going into our "Story of an Hour" paragraphs, you worked with your previous partner for feedback and then received some notes from me too. Then, in preparation for your prompt returns, we are going over The Outliers, rhetorical analysis tips, and everything you will be working on the rest of the semester with your writing.