DO NOW! A FABLE FOR TOMORROW There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of the fall mornings. 1. The underlined word checkerboard refers to a. houses lined up horizontally or linear. b. people on the square playing a friendly game of checkers. c. a town surrounded by a heavy fog. d. NONE OF THE ABOVE. 2. The following phrase, “a blaze of color that flamed and flicked across a backdrop of pines,” is an example of a. a rhetorical statement. b. personification. c. lexis. d. pathos.

I WILL determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings. LEARNING TARGET

TASK/HOMEWORK COMPLETE THE WORD WALL: due 9-22-17 1. DEFINE 2. EXAMPLE FROM ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: A. “What is Rhetoric” article p.2 B. “An Appeal to Congress on Women’s Rights, speech p.18 C. excerpt from “The Jungle” novel p.32 D. “A Fable for Tomorrow,” p.2

CLOSURE: make certain your responses are clear EXAMPLE: RHETORIC DEFINITION: EFFECTIVELY SPEAKING AND WRITING TO PERSUADE AN AUDIENCE. CITE EVIDENCE: IN CATT’S SPEECH SHE USED RHETORIC TO CONVINCE CONGRESS TO PASS THE SUFFRAGE ACT. EXTEND: PARAGRAPH 5, PAGE 18..”SERVE IN EVERY UPLIFTING MORAL & SPECIAL ENTERPRISE…”