I:
will hand handed back your Pizza Descriptions (Activity 1.3, page 8), any scored Name final drafts, the Essential Questions, the vocabulary quizzes, and any timelines / Unit Overview / Learning focus papers that I still had.
We:
will reviewed our Pizza Descriptions work to be sure that you all understandTone, Theme, Diction, Syntax Imagery, and Inferenceswill worked closely with the 1.7 graphic organizer, using the following sentence frame to work independently to find examples of diction, syntax,imagery, and tone:
When (the author) writes, "(excerpt here)," on page / in lines (page number / line numbers here), the reader is better able to understand(concept the author wants you to understand / 'get' from the writing) because of (author's) use of (rhetorical appeal).
Here is an example that may help:
When Cisneros writes, "I put . . . cottage cheese," on page 19, the reader is better able to understand how the birthday girl feels humiliated in class because the teacher is claiming that the disgusting, cottage-cheese-scented sweater belongs to her because of Cisneros's use of imagery.
Homework:
- finishing your Introductions (how you'll introduce your classmates, based on what you learned in the interviews - 1.4) - look here for the requirements;
- write one analytical sentence for each of the four rhetorical appeals - diction, syntax, imagery, theme, and tone