1. Sophomores
Q2Week 2

2. My Opinion Monday: Oct. 17th
Many adults complain about your generation and the lack of morals, social skills, work ethic, etc. In your eyes, what are the worst type of people (teenagers or adults)? Why? What advice would you give them?
My Opinion Monday: Oct. 17th

3. Modernized Fable Work together as a group
Brainstorm fable by completing steps 1-3
Write the fable as a group– switch scribes each sentence
Be ready to present your fable to the class

4. Tuesday

5. Presenting Your Fable:
Make a poster with the rhetorical situation of the fable
Pick who will say what in your group (Each member should have a role!)
Be ready to present to the class
Presenting Your Fable:

6. Wednesday

7. Wordy Wednesday: Diction
Diction: The words an author choses
this can is one way the author creates tone or describes the character’s background, education, ethnicity
Example: In To Kill a Mockingbird, the author has the uneducated white characters talk using slang:
“‘My paw’s never touched a hair o’my head in my life,’ she declares firmly” (Lee, 184).
Wordy Wednesday: Diction

8. Activities to do during silent reading:
1) Silently Read
2) Fill out Weekly Reading Log

9. Thursday

10. Rhetorical Analysis Annotations:
Read “Mother to Son”
Number the lines to the left of the poem
Find and label the following poetic devices in this poem:
metaphor:
diction:
Imagery
3) Write the theme of the poem and underline/highlight the evidence that supports it.
Rhetorical Analysis Annotations:

11. Imagery: The mental pictures created by a piece of writing/ visually descriptive or figurative language (especially in poetry or a literary work).
The fresh and juicy orange is very
cold and sweet.
The eerie silence was shattered by
her scream.
Imagery:

12. A figurative comparison between two unlike things that does not use like/as
Ex: The goalie was a rock.
Ex: ’m a bear in the mornings without my coffee.
Metaphor

13. Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation:

14. Friday

15. Class Quiz Rules: Step One: Answer questions 1-4 on your own.
Step Two: Discuss the answers you got with your group members.
Step Three: Be ready to give your answer. I will use popsicle sticks and whoever is called upon must answer for the class’s grade.
Step Four: Once someone has been called on, no one else may talk or the question is marked wrong.
Class Quiz Rules:

16. Rhetorical Analysis Thesis Statements:
Explain the narrator’s perspective on persistence, struggle, and the American Dream, especially in context of the author’s and the text’s relation to the Harlem Renaissance.
Step One: Choose a topic.
Step Two: Focus the topic.
Step Three: Narrow the topic further by posing it as a question.
Step Four: Answer the questions to create your thesis statement.
Rhetorical Analysis Thesis Statements: