1. Take out your notebook and write this down, verbatim, all of it. “When a child first catches adults out—when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just—his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child’s world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”  – John Steinbeck, East of Eden 5 January 2015 Today’s Agenda: 1.Diving Back Into Rhetoric with a Classic Excerpt 2.What You’ll NEED from Here Out: -Textbooks!!! HMWK: AP Practice #9 DUE on Friday, 1/9/15

2. “When a child first catches adults out—when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just—his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child’s world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”

3. Take out yesterday’s excerpt and examine the sentence structures (syntax) again. Read over each one and label the tone of each sentence. When you (and your partners) are done, consider how Steinbeck “stacked”/“built” these ideas in order to make his point more lucid, potent, and coherent. 6 January 2015 Today’s Agenda: 1.Diving Back Into Rhetoric with a Classic Excerpt HMWK: AP Practice #9 DUE on Friday, 1/9/15

4. “When a child first catches adults out—when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just—his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child’s world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”

5. Take out your textbook, and then copy this down: “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.” – H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu 7 January 2015 Today’s Agenda: 1.Another Excerpt to Analyze for Tomorrow 2.Analysis of “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell HMWK: Analyze the excerpt from Lovecraft for TOMORROW’S class! AP Practice #9 DUE on Friday, 1/9/15

6. “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.” – H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

7. Take out your textbook, and your analysis from yesterday. Explain to your partner(s) what the dominant rhetorical elements were and have a discussion about how style, semantics, syntax, and structure help Lovecraft make his claim clearer and more potent. 8 January 2015 Today’s Agenda: 1.Lovecraft’s Rhetoric and Message 2.Analysis of “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell HMWK: AP Practice #9 DUE on Friday, 1/9/15

8. “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”

9. Obtain your assigned laptop, logon, go to the website, find the open link to the GoogleDoc for our Orwell discussion, and type in your five quotes. 9 January 2015 Today’s Agenda: 1.Analysis of “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell HMWK: Read Richard Selzer’s “Surgeon as Priest” for Monday, 1/12/15