Understand assignment for Paper 6 Begin working on Paper 6 3-24-16 Goals: Turn in Paper 5 Understand assignment for Paper 6 Begin working on Paper 6

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."  On the one hand, some believe that the Amendment's phrase "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms" creates an individual constitutional right for citizens of the United States. Under this "individual right theory," the United States Constitution restricts legislative bodies from prohibiting firearm possession, or at the very least, the Amendment renders prohibitory and restrictive regulation presumptively unconstitutional. On the other hand, some scholars point to the prefatory language "a well regulated Militia" to argue that the Framers intended only to restrict Congress from legislating away a state's right to self-defense. Scholars have come to call this theory "the collective rights theory." A collective rights theory of the Second Amendment asserts that citizens do not have an individual right to possess guns and that local, state, and federal legislative bodies therefore possess the authority to regulate firearms without implicating a constitutional right. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/second_amendment

   Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desart. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.” Percy Bysshe Shelley

   Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desart. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.” Percy Bysshe Shelley Irony can occur when a speaker says one thing, but means the opposite. It can occur when a situation is the opposite of what would (or should) be expected. Dramatic irony can occur when the audience knows that words or actions have one meaning, but a character (incorrectly) assumes a different meaning.

Genre: Sonnet 14 lines iambic pentameter 3 quatrains + couplet statement reversal

http://songsandcircumstances. blogspot http://songsandcircumstances.blogspot.com/2005/04/police-every-breath-you-take.html Irony can occur when a speaker says one thing, but means the opposite. It can occur when a situation is the opposite of what would (or should) be expected.

Assignment: “show how readers can derive different meanings from the same text” Doesn’t say “the right” or “correct” or “intended” meaning Could be a misreading Focus: How do readers read?

Read each poem; read commentaries on it if you like. Ask yourself… What does the text mean? Why do I think it means what it means? Who is the writer? Who might the writer be? Who is the audience? Who might the audience be? What is the situation? What might the situation be? What seems to be going on? What might be going on? Identify the specific words on which you base your answers. Assignment: “show how readers can derive different meanings from the same text”

CONTEXT (purposes, constraints) Subject Writer Reader Text

No more practice papers. Two weeks to work on Paper 6, then two weeks to work on Paper 7.

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