1. Agenda (for me) Voice Lesson: Imagery Discuss the end of the book
(Tomorrow: Kabul?)
Laptops: Work on Research Paper or Project
HW: Research paper due via Turnitin.com by 11:59 PM

2. Reminders –
Need a copy of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers by this Thursday, 11/15
Socratic Seminar Make-Up: Wednesday, AM
ATSS Reading – You should be done with the book!
This Week:
Research Paper: It’s due tonight by 11:59 PM – info.
Video Project – Due Wednesday, 11/14
Unit Test – ATSS and Poetry, Thursday, 11/15 (Study Guide posted to blog)
Start Outliers, Friday, 11/16
2nd Block:
Class ID:
Enrollment Key: spruill2
4th Block:
Class ID:
Enrollment Key: spruill4

3. Imagery- 4
Consider:
It was a mine town, uranium most recently. Dust devils whirled sand off the mountains. Even after the heaviest of rains, the water seeped back into the ground, between stones, and the earth was parched again.
Linda Hogan, “Making Do”
Analysis:
What feelings do you associate with images of dusty mountains and dry earth?
There are two images associated with land in the third sentence. Identify the two images and compare and contrast the feelings these images evoke.
Apply:
Write a sentence describing a rainstorm using imagery that produces a positive response, then write a sentence describing a rainstorm with imagery that produces a negative response.

4. Imagery- 4
Consider:
It was a mine town, uranium most recently. Dust devils whirled sand off the mountains. Even after the heaviest of rains, the water seeped back into the ground, between stones, and the earth was parched again.
Analysis:
Common associations include feelings of hopelessness, futility, the relentless despair of poverty, emptiness, anxiety, and longing.
The first image is of the water seeping back into the ground. This image offers some hope of regeneration. After all, although the water does go back into the ground, it seeps; it doesn’t flow or rush. In the second image, the ground is parched again. This image offers no hope of regeneration. The ground is called earth, which gives the image of a wide-ranging permanence. It is parched, dry to the extreme. And it is parched again. Intimating that the earth has been parched in the past and will be parched in the future.

5. ATSS Discussion How are Mariam and Laila similar? different?
Do you think Laila and Tariq can be happy? Why or why not?
Mariam refuses to see visitors while she is imprisoned, and she calls no witnesses at her trial. Why does she make these decisions?
The phrase “a thousand splendid suns,” from the poem by Saib-e-Tabrizi, is quoted in the novel – once as Laila’s family prepares to leave Kabul, and again when she decides to return there from Pakistan. It is also echoed in one of the final lines: “Miriam is in Laila’s own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.” Discuss the thematic significance of this phrase.
At several points in the story, Mariam and Laila pass themselves off as mother and daughter. What is the symbolic importance of this? In what ways is Mariam’s and Laila’s relationship with each other informed by their relationships with their own mothers?

6. Laptops: research paper / Video project

7. TED Talk Thursday: The danger of silence
As you watch today’s TED Talk, jot down words and phrases you hear that resonate with you (stick with you).
After watching, respond to the following questions:
According to Clint Smith, what does it mean to have a voice?
How have you used your voice for good?
How have you allowed silence to quiet your voice?
The speaker, Clint Smith, speaks of 4 tenets he has his students agree to in his classroom: “read critically, write consciously, speak clearly, tell your truth” What do those tenets mean to you?