9 April 2013 Miss Rice

What is one persuasive technique that you think you will use in your research paper?  Give an example of how you will use it *Take out persuasive article HW to be checked

Persuasive techniques Vocab. Unit 4 Walt Whitman

To make personal connections to vocabulary words. To review persuasive techniques. To introduce Walt Whitman and preview “I Hear America Singing.”

Highlighters 1. What did you think of the article? 2. Do you think it was persuasive? 3. What specific persuasive techniques did you see used in the article?

On a piece of loose leaf, respond to the following two questions: Which persuasive article did you like better and why? Write and share with the class. Which article do you think was more persuasive and why? Write and then share with the class. You will need to use and highlight at least 3 persuasive techniques in your research paper Review warm-up from today and yesterday

Test this Friday HW due Wednesday (tomorrow) Pages in orange book Star the words you already know Review the words you know Review the words you don’t know

Draw one of the words and share with the class HW due Wednesday Pages in orange book

The Early Years Long Island 9 Literate Carpenter Brooklyn 11 Office jobs Printer’s assistant

His Writing Career 27 Brooklyn Eagle Fired Slavery Abraham Lincoln Poetry “Leaves of Grass”

His Writing Style Long lines Natural speech Catalogs Parallelism Vocabulary Reality Irregular meter Line length Rhythm Bible American Freedom individuality

Creating long lists for poetic effect Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself excerpt The pure contralto sings in the organ loft, The carpenter dresses his plank, the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp, The married and unmarried children ride home to their Thanksgiving dinner, The pilot seizes the king-pin, he heaves down with a strong arm, The mate stands braced in the whale-boat, lance and harpoon are ready, The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches, The deacons are ordained with crossed hands at the altar, The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel, The farmer stops by the bars as he walks on a First-day loaf and looks at the oats and rye, The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum a confirmed case.... [etc.]

Poetry based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses rather than meter Some lines might have a certain meter, but no meter is maintained throughout I shall go Up and down, In my gown. Gorgeously arrayed, Boned and stayed. And the softness of my body will be guarded from embrace By every button, hook, and lace. For the man who should loose me is dead, Fighting with the Duke in Flanders, In a pattern called a war. Christ! What are patterns for?

The melodic pattern just before the end of a sentence or phrase The natural rhythm of language depending on the position of stressed and unstressed syllables

When a writer or speaker expresses ideas of equal worth with the same grammatical form "Veni, vidi, vici," (I came, I saw, I conquered) -Julius Caesar

The "mental pictures" that readers experience with a passage The sensory perceptions referred to in a poem, whether by literal description, allusion, simile, or metaphor Imagery is not limited to visual imagery, but can be any of the senses that the author awakens with his words

The author's way of communicating and sharing ideas, perceptions, and feelings with readers Can be directly stated or implied Can be briefly stated or a complicated view of life

Let’s read together Whitman lit. terms What effect does parallelism and repetition have on the readers? Possible themes? What does the title mean? What does Whitman mean by “singing?” What does the poem imply about American workers? What is Whitman saying about the attitude of a person’s work? Is Whitman’s view of Americans true then? Now?

Compare and contrast Whitman with the transcendentalists

Vocab. pages #54-57 due tomorrow Read “I, Too, Sing America” and write at least a 5 sentence reflection about how this poem connects to “I Hear America Singing”