Monday: Current Events - Share out in groups (with visual/poster)
HW: Finish reading CHAPTER 7 (aka VII)
Tuesday: Finish CE Share-out's... then Gatsby small group practice "test" Chapter 1-6
HW: Read CHAPTER 8 (aka VIII)
Wednesday: Finish Gatsby small group practice "test" Chapter 1-6; begin Chapters 7-9 questions as time allows.
HW: Read CHAPTER 9 (aka IX)
Final Testing Period Heads-up:
1) We'll see the end of the movie version of Gatsby after completing 2 & 3 below
2) We'll have a short essay based on an excerpt from the novel; you'll be able to use your book and your notes, if you like, to write about the rhetorical strategies use and impact in the excerpt.
3) We'll have a multiple choice assessment that will be very similar to the in-class "practice test" format; likely around 15-25 questions. The questions will not be exactly the same as the practice test, but will be very similar. I will post the practice questions on the blog, so you may use them as a study tool if you like.
Thursday/Friday/Saturday/Sunday: Have a great long weekend! See you Monday!
Rhetorical Device of the Week: POLYSYNDETON
Polysyndeton is a stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect.
Polysyndeton performs several functions. Not only does it join words, phrases and clauses and thus brings continuity in a sentence, but it acts also as a stylistic device, brings rhythm to the text with the repetition of conjunctions in quick succession. It is also employed as a tool to lay emphasis to the ideas the conjunctions connect. http://literarydevices.net/polysyndeton/http://literarydevices.net/polysyndeton/
EXAMPLE:
“Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly–mostly–let them have their whiteness.” (Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)
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