1. Happy Monday! 8/14 SUMMER READ DUE TOMORROW EVENING!
COME GET YOUR JOURNAL 
Vocab Letter C
Capricious-adj-tending to change abruptly and without apparent reason; erratic
EX: Deciding then un-deciding where to eat, then trying to decide again, then not…
Happy Monday! 8/14 SUMMER READ DUE TOMORROW EVENING!

2. “She knew a small side door which she could unbolt herself and she flew downstairs in her stocking feet and put on her shoes in the hall. She unchained and unbolted and unlocked and when the door was open she sprang across the step with one bound, and there she was standing on the grass, which seemed to have turned green, and with the sun pouring down on her and warm sweet wafts about her and the fluting and twittering and singing coming from every bush and tree.” (excerpt The Secret Garden)
1. What does it mean to say someone flew downstairs and sprang across a step. Discuss the denotative and connotative differences.
2. Does having “the sun pouring down on her” evoke a positive or negative connotation? Defend your response
3. Why does the writer utilize “and” so much?
Warmup 8/14

3. Context, Purpose, Audience
Appeals: ethos, pathos, logos
Strategies: parallelism, diction, repetition, metaphors etc

4. Objective: Analyze the rhetorical structure and strategies Thatcher uses to convey her purpose to the audience; utilize details for support.
graphic organizer
Adequate essay sample-what’s good, what does it still need?
Review our intros & look at outline

5. Tuesday 8/15 Summer Read due tonight!
Warmup: Around the World in 80 Days:
From time to time they sped by some phantom- like tree, whose white skeleton twisted and rattled in the wind. Sometimes flocks of wild birds rose, or bands of gaunt, famished, ferocious prairie-wolves ran howling after the sledge*
*sled or sleigh
1. What does it mean for a tree to have a skeleton, and why is it white? What’s the author’s purpose here?
2. How do the words gaunt and famished intensify the understanding of just how ferocious the wolves are?
Tuesday 8/15 Summer Read due tonight!

6. Wednesday 8/16 DID YOU TURN IN YOUR SUMMER READ LAST NIGHT?!
First 10 minutes of class-You need to go to your English class from last year (the ROOM), and get your portfolio.
Zero hour-we do this the last 10 minutes of class!
Wednesday 8/16 DID YOU TURN IN YOUR SUMMER READ LAST NIGHT?!

7. Warmup: Write down two strong adjectives that intensify the reader’s understanding of the dogs in the following sentence:
A group of ______________, _______________, sleepy dogs sat lounging in the shade.
Wed 8/16

8. Warmup:
“With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long- drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence.” (The Call of the Wild)
How does the contradiction of flaming coldly help the reader understand the scene?
London describes the huskies as pleading for life. What does that mean and what other diction supports your interpretation?
Thurs/Fri 8/17-18