1. # Journal 12/1
Write about something you have that is second-hand (you didn’t get it new, it first belonged to someone else). Describe the item and how you got it.
How do you feel about second-hand goods? Would you buy clothes, shoes, etc from a thrift store or yard sale? Is there anything you would never buy used?
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2. Vocabulary Current Event-theonion.com. Due Weds.
ample
apparatus
enmity
stratagem
vilify
Current Event-theonion.com. Due Weds.
Don’t forget- last week’s words on this week’s quiz too!

3. Heart of Darkness Reading Schedule
Read through Chapter 1 (27) by Dec. 5. Will be on quiz (Seminar)
Read through Chapter 2 (50) by Friday 12/12 (Seminar)
Finish book by Friday 12/19 (Seminar)
Major Works Folder due 1/9

4. To Be of Use Read with your partner on Page 469 On one piece of paper:
SAYS/ DOES/ HOW:
SAYS: What is the meaning or message of the poem? What is it trying to express?
DOES: What rhetorical mode is used by the poem? Is it narrating, describing, arguing?
HOW: Describe one rhetorical strategy used by the poem- diction, syntax, a device. Explain HOW it helps to express what the poem says.

5. #57 Synthesis 12/1
Writing prompt- Read textbook page Answer the prompt in activity 1.
Synthesis- consulting various viewpoints to create a new and more informed viewpoint

6. Dumpster Diving What is it? Read the essay- PAGE 421
Rhetorical triangle in your homework notebook
Be prepared to discuss rhetorical analysis questions