Unit 1 Day 3

Pizza: Speakers 2, 4 Read Speaker 2 With a partner, fill out chart (make inferences last, find support for each inference) Read Speaker 4

Pizza: Speaker 3 Read Speaker 3 By yourself, fill out chart (make inferences last, find support for each inference)

Author vs. Narrator I see you looking at me. Well, not at me, but through me. You’ve rendered me invisible; yet, somehow, you’ve also mastered the art of looking down at me, even though I’m taller than you. My black skin must exude some property, a food for your hatred to consume, like the opposite of kryptonite, to give you such powers. Narrator = a black person Author = Tydings (a white guy)

Syntax No sooner had the reverberation of my blows sunk into silence, then I was answered by a voice from within the tomb! – by a cry, at first muffled and broken, like the sobbing of a child, and then quickly swelling into one long, loud, and continuous scream, utterly anomalous and inhuman – a howl! – a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as might have arisen only out of hell, conjointly from the throats of the damned in their agony and of the demons that exult in the damnation. –Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat”

Syntax (cont) The dashes in this long sentence set off a series of appositives (a noun or noun phrase placed beside another noun or noun phrase and used to identify or explain it). What noun phrase is explained by the appositives? This sentence makes syntactic and semantic sense if it ends with the first exclamation point. What do the appositives add to the meaning and effectiveness of the sentence? Your turn: Rewrite Poe’s sentence into several short sentences. How do the short sentences change the meaning?

Juxtaposition – two unlike ideas placed side by side Why? To highlight the differences between them; point out irony Examples: Lion looking fearful of a mouse Image of a grandmother holding a baby A child’s tricycle in front of a tank “Yeah, yeah, I’ma up at Brooklyn, now I’m down in Tribeca Right next to De Niro, but I’ll be hood forever” – Jay-Z, “Empire State of Mind”

“Speak” Read “Speak” on pages 10-11 With partner, answer questions 1, 3 1) Who is narrating the story? What textual evidence supports your answer? (imagery, diction) 3) What effect does the use of dashes in paragraph 4 have? (syntax) Juxtaposition: two opposites placed together for a contrasting effect 4) As a class, discuss the juxtaposition of Melinda’s inner voice and her “outer” voice (what people hear when you speak).