Reminders Homework – Pick up the Op-Ed piece, “Why I Left Goldman Sachs” – read it and mark examples of rhetorical appeals/devices AND answer the reading purpose question: Reading Purpose: Considering the author’s perspective on success and his version of Goldman Sachs’ definition of success, how has society’s definition of success changed or remained the same? Outliers Reading Schedule – Chaps. 6-7 due today! Vocabulary Unit 9 Pic Quiz – tomorrow, 12/1 Full Quiz – next Friday, 12/8

Voice Lesson: Syntax #3

Read and Think: But once I spread my fingers in the dirt and crouch over the Get on Your Mark, the dream goes and I am solid again and am telling myself, Squeaky you must win, you must win, you are the fastest thing in the world, you can even beat your father up Amsterdam if you really try. And then I feel my weight coming back just behind my knees then down to my feet then into the earth and the pistol shot explodes in my blood and I am off and weightless again, flying past the other runners, my arms pumping up and down and the whole world is quiet except for the crunch as I zoom over the gravel in the track. -- Toni Cade Bambara, Raymond’s Run (Creative Short Stories) Look at the first sentence in this passage. The sentence is made up of many short clauses in a row, each clause separated by a comma. Read the sentence aloud several times and think about it. A comma indicates a short pause…why do you think the author wrote the sentence this way instead of dividing it into separate sentences? In other words, how does the sentence structure emphasize the meaning of the sentence? Both of these sentences start with conjunctions (but, and). What is the purpose of a conjunction? Why do you think the author has chosen to start these sentences with a conjunction?

Responses The author uses short clauses joined by commas in order to imitate the experience of running. There’s a breathless quality to the sentence, as if the words themselves were running. The use of the series of short clauses increases tension, quickens the pace, and intensifies the feeling. It allows the reader to experience the run. Note also that the narrator switches from first person (I) to second person (you) within the sentence. This also intensifies the focus of the sentence. The narrator moves from sharing the experience to actual engagement in the experience. He moves from talking about what happens (“I spread my fingers in the dirt and crouch, I am solid again”) to being there (he tells himself: “you must win, you are the fastest thing in the world, you can even beat your father”)

Responses A conjunction is used to connect ideas. These conjunctions are coordinating conjunctions, used to connect ideas of equal weight, usually two or more parts of a sentence. Here they start each sentence. The effect of using conjunctions to start these sentences is to set the stage for each sentence that follows. The conjunction but in the first sentence indicates contrast. It tells the reader that everything in the sentences is in contrast to what has been said before. The and in the second sentence serves to connect the second sentence to the first, as part of the run. Just as the run is fluid and intense and fast, so is the sentence. Starting with a conjunction gives the sentence a breathless quality that reinforces the meaning of the passage.

Outliers Info: Peer Revision – Rhetorical Analysis #1 Final Draft should be finished by tomorrow or Monday at the latest Next week, we will write Rhetorical Analysis #2 Next Friday, 12/8 (both will be brought to class in final draft form – I will select one to collect for a grade.) Outliers, Chaps. 6-7

Howard & Turner Families

Kentucky

Culture of honor

Korean Air

Air traffic controller

PDI

Cultural legacy Tie Break if necessary

Intro to Film Analysis Presentation Do some initial google searching on the directors. We will choose directors tomorrow – come prepared with your top 3 choices.