HW: Work on Research Paper – gathering more evidence Agenda (for me) HW: Work on Research Paper – gathering more evidence

Reminders – 3/27/17 ATSS, Chaps. 27-35 due tomorrow! Idea Sheets I have graded everything that DID NOT have unfinished next to it as of 8:30 last night. I will continue to look at these today/tonight. You need to submit your first attempt by tonight. You should continue to work on finding research – remember 8 articles from MackinVia; those ideas on the idea sheet will eventually become your claims. HW: Continue researching/finding articles/working on idea sheet; reading ATSS!

Personification A special kind of metaphor that gives human qualities to something that is not human, such as an animal, a object, or an idea. Since it is a kind of metaphor, it has a literal and figurative term In personification, the figurative term is always a person. Remember: A literal term is what we are comparing to something else. It’s what’s real; it means what it is. In “the test was a bear,” we are really talking about a test. A figurative term is what is being compared to the literal term. It is something other than itself, something non-literal. In “the test was a bear,” the test is not a bear, but it has some bear-like qualities that can help us understand just how hard the test was

Personification Example of personification: The tree sighed sadly in the cold. A tree can’t really sigh or be sad. The literal term is the tree (it really is a tree!) – it is what we are comparing to something else The figurative term is a person (the tree is not really a person who can sigh and be sad). – it is what is being compared to the literal term.

Figurative Language in Action Read and Think: Write About It: The ruddy brick floor smiled up at the smoky ceiling; the oaken settles*, shiny with long wear, exchanged cheerful glances with each other; plates on the dresser grinned at pots on the shelf, and the merry firelight flickered and played over everything without distinction. -- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows *long wooden benches with high backs that usually have storage space in the seat Remember that personification is a kind of metaphor, an implied comparison that always has a human being as its figurative term. Identify the 4 examples of personification in the passage, and identify the literal and figurative term (in this case the human characteristics associated) How does the use of personification help the reader visualize and connect to the passage? What kind of feeling is created by the personification?

VOCABULARY PICTURE QUIZ UNIT 9

Research Paper Work Session Finish any revisions on Idea Sheet Continue reading and researching your topic to find evidence to support your claims (contributing factors) Put in EasyBib as you go Add notes to remind yourself as you read! You can always delete a source from your EasyBib I will post the Detailed Outline Template in the folder mid-week