1. Vocabulary Bell-Ringer 11/1/16
Directions:
Write down the following sentence in your notebook.
Make a guess about the definition of the underlined word.
Write that guess underneath the sentence.
“The health conditions of the traveling pilgrims degenerated quickly and only a few souls remained healthy during the long journey to America.”

2. Degenerate (v): To decline in quality.
“The health conditions of the traveling pilgrims degenerated quickly and only a few souls remained healthy during the long journey to America.”
Degenerate (v): To decline in quality.

4. The History of “This I Believe”
This I Believe started as a 1950s radio program of the same name, hosted by famous journalist Edward R. Murrow and continues today.
Youth and adults from all walks of life join in writing, sharing, and discussing brief essays about the core values that guide their daily lives.
The creator of the program said, “The goal is not to persuade Americans to agree on the same beliefs. Rather, the hope is to encourage people to begin the much more difficult task of developing respect for beliefs different from their own.”

5. As You Read: Think about the author’s main idea. (thesis statement)
How would you describe the author’s voice?
What elements of voice do you notice the author using as you read?
What patterns do you notice in the language?

7. Text Marking Strategies:
Mark each category using a different color or marking style.
Example: highlight diction examples, syntax examples, and imagery examples in different colors.
Example: mark by underlining, boxing, circling, squiggle underlining, etc.
You should be able to see the different examples without re-reading everything.

8. “The America I Believe In”
General Colin Powell is a four-star general and former Secretary of State.
The experiences of his parents, who both immigrated to America, helped to shape his beliefs.

9. Review of Voice:
Voice – A writer’s personality or attitude that is shown through the writing style.
Diction – The words an author chooses to have a certain effect in the piece (sophisticated, mature, childish, informal, sarcastic…)
Syntax – The arrangement of the words, how simple or complex the sentences are, the types of punctuation used, etc.
Imagery – The words or phrases used to describe persons, objects and actions by appealing to the senses.

10. Write words to describe the voice at the top.
What To Think About:
Diction
What patterns do you see?
Positive or negative words?
Many action words, emotions, etc.?
What type of vocabulary? (Formal or Informal)
Syntax
Short or long phrases?
Questions or statements?
What types of punctuation?
Imagery
What do you picture in your head?
What is being described (people, places, objects)?
What types of figurative language?
Main Idea
What is the author saying?
What is the most important point?
Can you summarize the essay in one sentence?
Read & mark the essay.
Write words to describe the voice at the top.

11. Passionate Optimistic
Diction
Imagery
Syntax
Main Idea
Formal statements, long & complex sentences
Voice: Patriotic
Passionate
Optimistic

12. “The America I Believe In”
He believes that America can still be a friendly, welcoming place that accepts people from all backgrounds.
Patriotic
Passionate
Optimistic
Statements
Long, complex sentences.
America
Freedom
Welcoming
“Land of Immigrants”
“Touched by every nation”
“Land of dreams”
A lot of patriotic and positive words that lets us know he is passionate about America.
Statements that show he is passionate about his beliefs
Images that make us visualize the welcoming nature of America.

13. “Be Cool to the Pizza Delivery Dude”
We know them. We depend on them. We call them out on cold, rainy nights.
Now, Sarah Adams tells us why her life philosophy is built around being cool to the pizza delivery dude.

14. Write words to describe the voice at the top.
What To Think About:
Diction
What patterns do you see?
Positive or negative words?
Many action words, emotions, etc.?
What type of vocabulary? (Formal or Informal)
Syntax
Short or long phrases?
Questions or statements?
What types of punctuation?
Imagery
What do you picture in your head?
What is being described (people, places, objects)?
What types of figurative language?
Main Idea
What is the author saying?
What is the most important point?
Can you summarize the essay in one sentence?
Read & mark the essay.
Write words to describe the voice at the top.

15. “Be Cool to the Pizza Delivery Dude”
What is the main point? What is it specifically that the author believes in?
What is the voice (personality) of the author?
Pull specific examples of diction, syntax, and imagery from the text that BEST show voice.
Summarize how your examples of diction, syntax, and imagery portray the voice.

16. “Be Cool to the Pizza Delivery Dude” Sara Adams
“The America I Believe In”
Colin Powell
“Be Cool to the Pizza Delivery Dude” Sara Adams
How do their voices differ?
Voice:
Causal, Approachable,
Humble
Voice: Patriotic
Passionate
Optimistic

17. Vocabulary Bell-Ringer 11/2/16
Directions:
Write down the following sentence in your notebook.
Make a guess about the definition of the underlined word.
Write that guess underneath the sentence.
“The vegetarian exhorted her audience to understand the struggle of the turkey and begged them to stop eating meat this holiday season.”

18. “The vegetarian exhorted her audience to understand the struggle of the turkey and begged them to stop eating meat this holiday season.”
Exhort (v): To strongly urge or encourage.

19. Bell Ringer
Take the first 5 minutes of class to finish filling out the analysis chart for “Be Cool to the Pizza Delivery Dude” by Sarah Adams
Pull specific examples of diction, syntax, and imagery from the text that BEST show voice.
What is the main point? What is it specifically that the author believes in?
What is the voice (personality) of the author?
Summarize how your examples of diction, syntax, and imagery portray the voice.

21. “Science Nourishes the Mind and Soul”
Physicist Brian Greene believes in the unraveling of the mysteries of the universe.
He has spent his career researching and exploring space as a professor at Columbia University.

22. Write words to describe the voice at the top.
What To Think About:
Diction
What patterns do you see?
Positive or negative words?
Many action words, emotions, etc.?
What type of vocabulary? (Formal or Informal)
Syntax
Short or long phrases?
Questions or statements?
What types of punctuation?
Imagery
What do you picture in your head?
What is being described (people, places, objects)?
What types of figurative language?
Main Idea
What is the author saying?
What is the most important point?
Can you summarize the essay in one sentence?
Read & mark the essay.
Write words to describe the voice at the top.

23. “Returning to What’s Natural”
High school student Amelia Baxter-Stoltzfus believes in the freedom offered by semi-permanent hair dye.
Like her hair color, she knows there are things worth returning to, no matter how much life changes.

24. Write words to describe the voice at the top.
What To Think About:
Diction
What patterns do you see?
Positive or negative words?
Many action words, emotions, etc.?
What type of vocabulary? (Formal or Informal)
Syntax
Short or long phrases?
Questions or statements?
What types of punctuation?
Imagery
What do you picture in your head?
What is being described (people, places, objects)?
What types of figurative language?
Main Idea
What is the author saying?
What is the most important point?
Can you summarize the essay in one sentence?
Read & mark the essay.
Write words to describe the voice at the top.

25. Returning to What’s Natural& “Science Nourishes the Mind and Soul”
What is the main point? What is it specifically that the author believes in?
What is the voice (personality) of the author?
Pull specific examples of diction, syntax, and imagery from the text that BEST show voice.
Summarize how your examples of diction, syntax, and imagery portray the voice.
“Returning to What’s Natural”
Use the first 5 minutes of class to finish your blue worksheet!

27. “There Is No Such Thing as Too Much Barbeque”
Jason Sheehan is a James Beard Award-winning restaurant critic for Denver's Westword newspaper.
His barbeque obsession began at 16 with a trip to Hercules Chicken and Ribs in his hometown of Rochester, New York.

28. Voice Analysis

29. Text Marking Strategies:
Mark each category using a different color or marking style.
Example: highlight diction examples, syntax examples, and imagery examples in different colors.
Example: mark by underlining, boxing, circling, squiggle underlining, etc.
You should be able to see the different examples without re-reading everything.

30. “There’s No Such Thing As Too Much Barbeque” by Jason Sheehan
 After listening to the results of this project for several weeks, I knew I could do three minutes, too. Certainly not on world peace or the search for meaning in an increasingly distracted world or anything as grave and serious as all that, but on a belief just as true.
I believe in barbecue. As soul food and comfort food and health food, as a cuisine of both solace and celebration. When I’m feeling good, I want barbecue. And when I’m feeling bad, I just want barbecue more. I believe in barbecue in all its regional derivations, in its ethnic translations, in forms that range from white-tablecloth presentations of cunningly sauced costillas, to Chinese take-out spareribs that stain your fingers red, to the most authentic product of the tar-paper rib shacks of the Deep South. I believe that like sunshine, no day is bad that has barbecue in it.
I believe in the art of generations of pit-men working in relative obscurity to keep alive the craft of slow-smoking as it’s been practiced for as long as there’s been fire. A barbecue cook must have an intimate understanding of his work, the physics of fire and convection, the hard science of meat and heat and smoke – and then forget it all to achieve a sort of gut-level, Zen instinct for the process.
I believe that barbecue drives culture, not the other way around. Some of the first blows struck for equality and civil rights in the Deep South were made not in the courtrooms or schools or on buses, but in the barbecue shacks. There were dining rooms, back yards and roadhouse juke joints in the South that were integrated long before any other public places.
I believe that good barbecue requires no décor, and that the best barbecue exists despite its trappings. Paper plates are okay in a barbecue joint. And paper napkins. And plastic silverware. And I believe that any place with a menu longer than can fit on a single page – or better yet, just a chalkboard – is coming dangerously close to putting on airs
I believe that good barbecue needs sides the way good blues need rhythm, and that there is only one rule: Serve whatever you like but whatever you serve, make it fresh. Have someone’s mama in the back doing the “taters” and hush puppies and sweet tea, because Mama will know what she’s doing – or at least know better than some assembly-line worker bagging up powdered mashed potatoes by the ton.
I believe that proper barbecue ought to come in significant portions. Skinny people can eat barbecue, and do, but the kitchen should cook for a fat man who hasn’t eaten since breakfast. My leftovers should last for days.
I believe that if you don’t get sauce under your nails when you’re eating, you’re doing it wrong. I believe that if you don’t ruin your shirt, you’re not trying hard enough.
I believe – I know – there is no such thing as too much barbecue. Good, bad or in-between, old-fashioned pit-smoked or high-tech and modern; it doesn’t matter. Existing without gimmickry, without the infernal swindles and capering of so much of contemporary cuisine, barbecue is truth; it is history and home, and the only thing I don’t believe is that I’ll ever get enough.

31. Analysis Prompt 1. In a complete paragraph, describe the voice of the speaker in this essay. How do you know? Give specific textual evidence of the diction, syntax and imagery to explain your answer.

32. “There’s No Such Thing As Too Much Barbeque” Analysis
Step 1: Read & mark the text for voice (diction, imagery & syntax)
Step 2: Write a complete paragraph response to the analysis question on the back using textual support.
Words Helpful for Describing VOICE
Positive:
Friendly Playful Amused Content Appreciative Hopeful Proud Authoritative Impassioned Relaxed Brave Elevated Joyful Romantic Calm Encouraging Soothing Cheerful Energetic Lighthearted Surprised Cheery Enthusiastic Loving Sweet Compassionate Excited Optimistic Sympathetic Complimentary Exuberant Passionate Confident Peaceful Humorous Joking
Negative:
Accusing Furious Aggravated Coarse Harsh Agitated Cold Smooth Angry Hateful Snooty
Condescending Hurtful Superficial Arrogant Contradictory Indignant Surly Artificial Critical Desperate Insulting Threatening Disappointed Irritated Tired Bitter Disgruntled Manipulative Uninterested Outraged Childish Passive
Neutral:
Knowledgeable Sophisticated Mature Childish Casual Formal Serious Emotional Authoritative Matter-of-fact Scholarly Concerned Apathetic
Diction What patterns do you see? Positive or negative words? Many action words, emotions, etc.? What type of vocabulary? Syntax Short or long phrases? Questions or statements? What types of punctuation? Imagery What do you picture in your head? What is being described (people, places, objects)?

33. “There’s No Such Thing As Too Much Barbeque” Analysis
Jason Sheehan creates a __________ voice in his essay "There's No Such Thing As Too Much Barbeque". He uses diction patterns like ______________________________. This helps create a ____________ personality in his writing because______________________ He uses syntax patterns like ______________________________. This helps create a ____________ personality in his writing because______________________. He uses imagery patterns like ______________________________. This helps create a ____________ personality in his writing because________________________.
Words Helpful for Describing VOICE
Positive:
Friendly Playful Amused Content Appreciative Hopeful Proud Impassioned Relaxed Brave Joyful Calm Encouraging Soothing Cheerful Energetic Lighthearted Enthusiastic Compassionate Excited Optimistic Sympathetic Complimentary Passionate Confident Humorous Joking
Negative:
Accusing Agitated Cold Smooth Angry Hateful Snooty Hurtful Superficial Arrogant Contradictory Indignant Surly Artificial Critical Desperate Insulting Threatening Disappointed Irritated Tired Bitter Disgruntled Manipulative Uninterested
Neutral:
Knowledgeable Sophisticated Mature Childish Casual Formal Serious Emotional Authoritative Matter-of-fact Scholarly Concerned Apathetic
What kinds of words does he use?
What sentence structures does he use?
What kinds of images does he create?