Quiz

Part I: Read the poem "Mother to Son" and answer the 6 multiple choice questions on your answer sheet 

Part II: On a sheet of lined paper, complete a Quick Write using the TREEES format on the following topic:

What is the important lesson(s) that the mother has learned? How does the author use literary elements/techniques (setting, characterization, tone, repetition, imagery, conflict, simile, metaphor, etc.) to get her point across?

Make sure you use your TAG!

Thesis
Reason
Example/Evidence (textual example and connect to thesis)
Example/Evidence (textual example and connect to thesis)
E*xample/Evidence (textual example and connect to thesis)
Summarize

Today's Work ---EVERYTHING IS DUE BY THE END OF CLASS TODAY NO EXCEPTIONS!!!!

BOTH THE OUTLINE AND ESSAY ARE DUE BY THE END OF CLASS TODAY--NO EXCEPTIONS!!!

Remember, the outline counts for 50 of the 100 essay points!

Essay must be final-copy quality on lined paper (I have some essay paper if you want it)

Please work quietly--this is not a group project!

You should have a MINIMUM OF 1 PIECE OF TEXTUAL EVIDENCE PER MAIN IDEA

I WOULD RECOMMEND USING 2 PIECES OF TEXTUAL EVIDENCE PER MAIN IDEA IF YOU WANT A GRADE THAT IS 80'S AND HIGHER.

Please copy the assignment for the mid-unit assessment (Essay 100 pts.)

Essay Assignment: Due by the end of class Thursday
Determine King's purpose in par. 1-21 (or any others if you want to)
and analyze how he uses rhetoric and specific word choices to advance that purpose.

Purpose: (leave space)


How does he get his purpose across to the audience?
What are his arguments?
How does he support those arguments?
How does he prove the clergymen wrong?

You must fill out your outline first before you start writing.

Today: Work on the homework for "The Blind Alley" together and then take the quiz for MLK #2

Questions for "The Blind Alley"
1. Based on your paraphrases, what can you infer about the speaker's relationship to "they" in the poem?
2. How does the fig. language in stanza 3 relate to the language in stanza 7?
3. What are the similarities between the speaker's relationship with "they" in "The Blind Alley" and African Americans' relationships with the "white power" structure" as expressed in par. 10-11 in "Letter form Birmingham Jail" ?
4. How does King's description of the "vicious mobs" and "hate-filled policemen" in paragraph 11 relate to Shamlu's descriptive language in this poem?
5. What connections can you draw between a central idea from "Letter From Birmingham Jail" and a central present in "The Blind Alley"?

Homework/Vocabulary for 12/11 and Work 12/12

Homework Questions: Please Copy --these are due by Monday 12/15
1. Summarize what the poem is about in your own words.
2. What is a central idea in the poem?
3. What literary elements/techniques can you identify?
4. What connections can you make between "Letter from..." by MLK and this poem?

Definitions to go into your booklet:
extremist (p.12)-n. a person who holds extreme or fanatical political or religious views, especially one who resorts to or advocates extreme action.
immorality (p.13)-n. the state or quality of being immoral; wickedness.
quantity  (p.13)-n. amount
moderate (p.13)-adj.  within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense:

Today we will read/listen to from:

 the bottom of p. 7 "Sometimes a law is just on its face..."
to the top of p.12 "And now this approach is being termed extremist"
Youtube link (again)

Please annotate as you read:
? next to things you don't understand
circle/box unknown vocab words
Underline things you want to come back to
! next to things you think are important



Friday:
Youtube video

Questions for the video:

1. What valuable lesson did Martin Luther King, Jr. learn from Mahatma Gandhi? Do you believe Mahatma Gandhi was correct? Why or why not?

2. What did King say about the importance of his personal life when the reporter asked him if King was scared about his personal safety?

3. Why did King and his associates decide to focus their attention on Birmingham, Alabama as opposed to a different city?

4. What did King mean by the term “noncooperation with evil”?

5. What did King mean when he said, “It’s nonviolence or it’s nonexistence”? What do you think he meant when he said “[nonviolence] is a sword that heals”?

Please Copy the following questions for paragraphs 12-15:

1. What does King identify as paradoxical?
2. What can you infer from the clergymen's "anxiety over willingness to break laws"?
3. In par. 13, how does King define unjust laws? Cite his 3 specific definitions.
4. In par. 14 how does King reason that segregation is unjust?
5. What can you infer King means by "democratically structured" in par. 15?

Homework:
1. There are 11 assignment on Castle Learning that are due by Tuesday 12/23
2. In addition, we have 2 homework assignments due this week:

1. Delineating an argument:
*We will begin the work in class--complete it at home:

Delineate King's arguments in paragraphs 12-15 (use the handout I gave you for help)

*You are given the central claim and the supporting claim
*Give evidence that supports this claim (also on this sheet)
*Explain how the evidence is relevant
*Explain whether the evidence is sufficient
(Basically, you are practicing delineating an argument, by taking the chart and putting it into explanatory paragraphs--take the chart and put it into paragraphs so that you are explaining the central and supporting claims using the given evidence and explaining if the evidence is relevant and sufficient) You may use the TREEES format if you wish if this helps.

2. Homework for "In This Blind Alley" Due Monday 12/15 (given in class tomorrow)

Also, there will be 2 quizzes before Christmas Break: Monday 12/15 and Monday 12/22

Today's Work: No Notes!

Homework; 10 assignments have been added to Castle Learning that need to be completed by Tuesday 12/23 at the VERY LATEST.

Today we will:
1.Read par. 10-11
2.Complete worksheet #3 on MLK (RACE not necessary, study guide format, BUT, IT WILL HELP ON THE QUICKWRITE)
3.Complete the Quick Write for MLK "Letter" par. 10-11 (on the back--use TAG please)

Today's Notes:

Please take these notes on the back of the handout I gave you: (on argument)

Notes:

                        Elements of Argument: The Three Persuasive Appeals

Ethos- (ethical appeal): an appeal to a listener or reader’s conscience or sense of what is right or ethical; you believe the author because they are a CREDIBLE SOURCE

Logos-(logical appeal)- means persuading by the use of reasoning (things that make sense)

Pathos- (emotional appeal)-appeals to the audience's emotions (makes them mad, sad, happy, etc.)

Rhetorical question: questions that a speaker or writer asks but does not necessarily expect the reader or listener to answer directly—supposed to make them think instead.

Today we will:

Take notes on argument 

Complete our charts 

Read the next few paragraphs

Take the quiz

Add this vocabulary onto your worksheet for pages 11 and 13

on the worksheet:
page 11-
by-product-the result of another action, often unforeseen or unintended
postponement-the putting off or deferring until a later time

page 13-
tension-(n) the state of being stretched or strained (a relationship or mental/emotional state)
bondage (n)-the state of being bound by or subjected to some external power or control
monologue (n)-a prolonged talk by a single speaker, usually dominating the conversation
dialogue (n)-conversation between two or more persons

In the "Letter" booklet:

untimely-(adj) not occurring at a suitable time or season; ill-timed 

query-(n) a question; an inquiry.

oppressed-(v)  subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power

page 8

excruciating-(adj) extremely painful; causing intense suffering; 

torturing

anti-religious-(adj ) an opposition to religion (being against)

Today we will: (this will probably take two days--today and tomorrow)
1. Go over elements of Argument
2. Re-read listen to chunk #2 when necessary to review (through par 9)
2. Work with our groups to complete the textual analysis tool and  the short-answer sheet for chunk 2 (worksheet #2) that we started together on Monday/Wed. (we will TRY IT--IF WE CANNOT WORK QUIETLY WITH A PARTNER YOU WILL HAVE TO GO BACK TO WORKING ALONE)
3. INDIVIDUALLY, we will complete the quick write at the bottom of side 2 (counts as an essay grade so please do it well)--if you prefer you may do it on lined paper and turn it in.

Answer for #6: The purpose of paragraph 6 is to demonstrate why the time for "direct action" has come. He explains the negativity that has occurred in Birmingham and what they have tried so far and how it hasn't worked.

*rhetoric-the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques

Quick Write: How does he use rhetoric to advance his purpose (look at your answer for #6)

TREEES format (reminder)
T-thesis (the point you are proving)
R-reason
E-Evidence/Explain (cite and connect to the thesis)
E-(cite and connect to the thesis)
E*-(cite and connect to the thesis)
S-summarize