Agenda Voice Lesson: Syntax #2 Rhetorical Analysis #1 – Peer Editing Vocab Pic Quiz Unit 10 Intro to Film Analysis Speech

Reminders Outliers Reading Schedule – keep up! Chapters 3-4 due tomorrow Rhetorical Analysis #1 – rough draft, hard copy in class today for peer review Vocab Unit 10 Pic Quiz today Regular Quiz, Friday, 5/3

Voice Lesson: Syntax #2

Voice Lesson: Syntax #2 Read and Think: When I woke up it was light. It was awfully quiet. Too quiet. I mean, our house just isn’t naturally quiet. The radio’s usually going full blast and the TV is turned up loud and people are wrestling and knocking over lamps and tripping over the coffee table and yelling at each other. Something was wrong, but I couldn’t quite figure it out. Something had happened…I couldn’t remember what. -- S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders Hinton starts the passage with two short sentences, a sentence fragment, and another short sentence. Then she writes two longer sentences. Look at these sentences carefully, and contrast the purpose of the short sentences and fragment and the purpose of the longer sentences. Purpose (short/fragment): Purpose (longer): How does the sentence length reinforce the meaning of the passage? Hinton uses ellipses in the last sentence to show that something has been left out. What has been left out? How do you know? Purpose of the short sentences and sentence fragment: to set the scene, to emphasize the quiet and the unusual nature of the quiet Purpose of the longer sentences: to contrast the usual state of the house (noisy) with the startling quiet; The last and longest sentence gives the details to support the contrast. The sentence is breathless and exuberant, filled with images of a noisy, active household. Sentence length reinforces meaning by emphasizing, through short sentences and fragments, the unusual quiet and by re-creating the noise and bustle of the house’s usual state through the longer sentences. 2. What has been left out is the SOMETHING that happened. You know this because all of the detail and imagery in the passage point to something happening, something wrong. Yet it’s never stated. What is omitted is what is most important. It makes the narrative pause and allows the reader to pause and speculate, too, as indicated by the ellipsis.

Purpose of the short sentences and sentence fragment: to set the scene, to emphasize the quiet and the unusual nature of the quiet Purpose of the longer sentences: to contrast the usual state of the house (noisy) with the startling quiet; The last and longest sentence gives the details to support the contrast. The sentence is breathless and exuberant, filled with images of a noisy, active household. Sentence length reinforces meaning by emphasizing, through short sentences and fragments, the unusual quiet and by re-creating the noise and bustle of the house’s usual state through the longer sentences. 2. What has been left out is the SOMETHING that happened. You know this because all of the detail and imagery in the passage point to something happening, something wrong. Yet it’s never stated. What is omitted is what is most important. It makes the narrative pause and allows the reader to pause and speculate, too, as indicated by the ellipsis.

Rhetorical Analysis #1 Revision

Rhetorical Analysis Essays Finish revisions tonight and finalize the draft. We will begin R.A. #2 – this Thursday. Friday, 5/10 – You will bring BOTH R.A #1 and R.A. #2 – final drafts to class. I will select ONE to pick up and grade.

Vocab Pic Quiz Unit 10 When you are finished, pick up the Film Analysis Speech Presentation and begin reviewing. We will discuss as a group when everyone is done with their Pic Quiz.