Pre-AP English II September 8, 2017 Bellringer – Turn in your vocabulary for this week. I will be conducting progress checks and taking questions on your group projects for a few minutes at the beginning of class.

Announcements We will be having a 2 week vocabulary test on Wednesday, September 13. This will be your vocabulary from last week and this week. It will not include your vocabulary from Frankenstein.

Yesterday we… Continued applying critical thinking skills to reading and writing assignments, and practicing conducting deep analysis of fiction and demonstrating our understanding and ability to conduct that level of analysis independently. We also continued editing our own work, adding figurative language to enhance tone.

Objectives We will continue applying critical thinking skills to reading and writing assignments. We will continue conducting deeper analysis of fiction focusing particularly on how language contributes to tone. We will continue editing our own work focusing on tone – demonstrating our ability to effectively add figurative language which contributes to it. TEKS: E2.5C; 7; 14A; 17; 18; 19 CCRS: ELAI.A; II.A.6, 7

Literary Devices – Yours for 3 easy payments of $19.99! Let’s review the literary devices on our TERMS TO KNOW list… Cumulative Sentences -- A cumulative sentence is an independent clause followed by a series of subordinate constructions (phrases or clauses) that gather details about a person, place, event, or idea. "He dipped his hands in the bichloride solution and shook them--a quick shake, fingers down, like the fingers of a pianist above the keys.“ (Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith, 1925) "He wept silently, after the custom of shamed and angry men, so that when the pursuit party came tumbling, pounding, scrabbling down the trail, past the fold in which he and Hillel stood concealed, he could hear the creak and rattle of their leather armor with its scales of horn; and when the Arsiyah returned, just before daybreak, at the very hour when all of creation seemed to fall silent as if fighting off tears, Zelikman could hear the rumbling of the men's bellies and the grit in their eyelids and the hollowness of failure sounding in their chests." (Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure. Del Ray, 2007)

Literary Devices – Yours for 3 easy payments of $19.99! Parallel structure (parallelism) -- is the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence. By making each compared item or idea in your sentence follow the same grammatical pattern, you create a parallel construction. Not Parallel: Ellen likes hiking, the rodeo, and to take afternoon naps. Parallel: Ellen likes hiking, attending the rodeo, and taking afternoon naps. OR Ellen likes to hike, attend the rodeo, and take afternoon naps. Why might an author use parallel structure in a piece? What effect does it have on the text?

Watch your language! Work on questions 22-30 independently. We will discuss them near the end of class. Please remember to work independently. Although these questions will not be graded, I do expect you to complete them and do good work.

Today we… Discussed various literary devices which are commonly used and play important roles in the development of tone and mood. We focused particularly on periodic and cumulative sentences, and parallel structure (parallelism).

Homework Complete questions 31-35 (in your note taking journal). This will be due on Monday…I’ll probably actually give you until Tuesday, but pretend like I won’t.  Continue working on Frankenstein group projects.