Rhetoric & Composition September 13, 2010

When you come in… Review your vocabulary words. Make sure your vocab assignments (terms with 4 th word and pictures, sentence completion, & fill in the blank) are finished and in a place I can see them.

Vocab Quiz After your vocabulary quiz, please copy down the following roots in the vocab section of your spiral.

tract Latin TRAHERE, TRACTUM “to drag” picture that represents the root protracted Adj. Extended in time; prolonged Picture that represents term intractable Adj. Stubborn; obstinate; hard to move forward Picture that represents term retract v. To draw back; withdraw Picture that represents term Find a 4 th term that uses tract as its root, find its part of speech, and find its definition Picture that represents term peto Latin PETERE, PETITUM “to seek aggressively, to assail, to rush” picture that represents the root petulant Adj. Irritable or short- tempered Picture that represents term impetuous adj. Acting passionately and without forethought Picture that represents term impetus n. That which drives one; momentum Picture that represents term Find a 4 th term that uses peto as its root, find its part of speech, and find its definition Picture that represents term Copy these in the vocab section of your spiral.

Levels of Questions Level 1 & Level 2 questions were pretty good. Level 3 questions are those that make a connection to the world. You needn’t have read “The Birthday Party” in order to answer a level 3 question. – Why do you think certain people don’t appreciate the things people will do for them? – How would you feel about a surprise birthday party? – Should you appreciate nice gestures even though they embarrass you?

“The Birthday Party” by Katherine Brush 16 March 1946, The New Yorker They were a couple in their late thirties, and they looked unmistakably married. They sat on the banquette opposite us in a little narrow restaurant, having dinner. The man had a round, self-satisfied face, with glasses on it; the woman was fadingly pretty, in a big hat. There was nothing conspicuous about them, nothing particularly noticeable, until the end of their meal, when it suddenly became obvious that this was an Occasion—in fact, the husband’s birthday, and the wife had planned a little surprise for him. It arrived, in the form of a small but glossy birthday cake, with one pink candle burning in the center. The headwaiter brought it in and placed it before the husband, and meanwhile the violin-and-piano orchestra played” Happy Birthday to You” and the wife beamed with shy pride over her little surprise, and such few people as there were in the restaurant tried to help out with a pattering of applause. It became clear at once that help was needed, because the husband was not pleased. Instead he was hotly embarrassed, and indignant as his wife for embarrassing him. You looked at him and you saw this and you thought, “Oh, now, don’t be like that!” But he was like that, and as soon as the little cake had been deposited on the table, and the orchestra had finished the birthday piece, and the general attention had shifted from the man and the woman, I saw him say something to her under his breath—some punishing thing, quick and curt and unkind. I couldn’t bear to look at the woman then, so I stared at my plate and waited for quite a long time. Not long enough, though. She was still crying when I finally glanced over there again. Crying quietly and heartbrokenly and hopelessly, all to herself, under the gay big brim of her best hat.

8.2 Refresher What is the author’s message and how does she achieve it? – TS – CD – CM – CD – CM – CS

Narrative Writing The Characteristics Turn to the Interactive Notes section of your spiral and divide a clean sheet in half (long ways).

Characteristics of Narrative Writing To narrate is to tell a story. A narrative is an account of any event or series of events. Your Response: Draw a picture that represents what a narrative is.

For now and home fun… Sketch a body and mark places you have scars (can be literal or figurative). Write a caption about how you got the scar. Swimming accident Skin cancer removed my mother’s death I just don't want to die without a few scars. Chuck Palahniuk Chuck Palahniuk It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. Garrison Keillor Garrison Keillor Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars. Elbert Hubbard Elbert Hubbard