WUP for Friday, 3/7

"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people." --Indira Gandhi

Define your idea of a leader. Put yourself in the position of someone who leads and then of someone who is being led. Does the change in roles change your definition of a leader? How?

Lit Term

FORESHADOWING

An author’s use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story. Not all foreshadowing is obvious. Frequently, future events are merely hinted at through dialogue, description, or the attitudes and reactions of the characters.

Foreshadowing frequently serves two purposes. It builds suspense by raising questions that encourage the reader to go on and find out more about the event that is being foreshadowed. Foreshadowing is also a means of making a narrative more believable by partially preparing the reader for events which are to follow.

Vocab

aura: (n.) that which surrounds (as an atmosphere); a distinctive air or personal quality
SYNONYMS: ambiance, atmosphere

Punctuation

Underline (or if typing use italics) each word in the title of a book, movie, or a television show.
Ex. I had read Jurassic Park before I saw it in the movies.
Ex. Family Guy is the funniest show on television.
Ex. He gave me the book The Complete Poems of Robert Browning.

For the title of individual poems, short stories, or episodes in a television series put the title in quotation marks.
Ex. My favorite poem is "The Road Not Taken."
Ex. In the Collected Short Works of Poe, I liked the short story "The Cask of Amontillado" the best.
Ex. Of all the Star Trek shows I liked "The Last Warrior" the best.

WUP for Thursday, 3/6

"People who live in glass houses shouldn't walk around in their underwear." --Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby took a cliche and made a new saying out of it. Create a new and humorous saying out of one of the following cliches: a) The early bird catches the worm, or b) It's no use crying over spilled milk.

Lit Term

TONE/MOOD

Tone
The author’s attitude, stated or implied, toward a subject. Some possible attitudes are pessimism, optimism, earnestness, seriousness, bitterness, humorous, and joyful. An author’s tone can be revealed through choice of words and details.

Mood
The climate of feeling in a literary work. The choice of setting, objects, details, images, and words all contribute towards creating a specific mood. For example, an author may create a mood of mystery around a character or setting but may treat that character or setting in an ironic, serious, or humorous tone.

Vocab

resilient (adj.) able to return to an original shape or form; able to recover quickly
SYNONYMS: springy, elastic, buoyant, bouncy
ANTONYMS: avow, affirm, aver, avouch

Punctuation
When a person is directly addressed the name is set off with a comma.
Ex. Larry, pay attention. (The teacher is addressing Larry directly, so use a comma.)
Ex. Larry never pays attention. (The teacher is talking about Larry, not to him. No comma is used in this situation.)
Ex. Put your hand down, Frank. (Direct address at the end of a sentence.)

WUP for Wednesday, 3/5

"It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it." --Amelia Earhart (first woman aviator to fly the Atlantic solo)

Do these words strike a chord with you, or do you disagree with them? Explain your response. From your own experience, describe a project that was much easier for you to start than to finish.

Lit Term

Point of view: the perspective from which the story is told.

• The most obvious point of view is probably first person or "I."
• The omniscient narrator knows everything, may reveal the motivations, thoughts and feelings of the characters, and gives the reader information.
• With a limited omniscient narrator, the material is presented from the point of view of a character, in third person.
• The objective point of view presents the action and the characters' speech, without comment or emotion. The reader has to interpret them and uncover their meaning.

Vocab

amorphous: (adj.) shapeless, without definite form; of no particular type or character; without organization, unity, or cohesion
SYNONYMS: formless, unstructured, nebulous
ANTONYMS: definite, well-defined, clear-cut

Punctuation
Use a comma to set off an introductory clause. (The sentence will usually begin with the word since, because, as, although, if, when, or similar words.)
Ex. Because he was going to be late, he took a key with him.
Ex. Since it stopped raining, she no longer needed an umbrella.

If the clause comes at the end of the sentence, it is not introductory, so no comma is used.
Ex. He took a key with him because he was going to be late.
Ex. She no longer needed an umbrella since it stopped raining.

WUP for Tuesday, 3/4

"Good fences make good neighbors." --Robert Frost

What do you think Frost meant? If you were building a house, would you put a fence up between you and your neighbors? Why or why not?

Lit Term
Euphemism. The substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one, as in the use of "pass away" instead of "die." The basic psychology of euphemistic language is the desire to put something bad or embarrassing in a positive (or at least neutral light). Thus many terms referring to death, sex, crime, and excremental functions are euphemisms. Since the euphemism is often chosen to disguise something horrifying, it can be exploited by the satirist through the use of irony and exaggeration.

Vocab
infringe (v.) to violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds
SYNONYMS: encroach, impinge, intrude, poach
ANTONYMS: stay in bounds

Punctuation
Use a comma to separate three items in an address, and/or to separate a city from a state.
Ex. He lived at 21 Main St., Denver, Colorado.
Ex. He lives in Denver, Colorado, but he is moving to Bradford, Florida, next month.

WUP for Monday, 3/3

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." --Chinese proverb

How does this proverb express the difference between giving something to someone and teaching something to someone? Apply its wisdom to a situation in your life.

Lit Term

Style: manner of expression; how a speaker or writer says what he says. Notice the difference in style of the opening paragraphs of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:

In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves.

A Farewell to Arms

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Vocab

callow: (adj.) without experience; immature, not fully developed; lacking sophistication and poise; without feathers
SYNONYMS: green, raw, unfledged, inexperienced
ANTONYMS: mature, grown-up, polished, sophisticated

Punctuation

Use a comma in dates where you have three or more items together.
Ex. The allies invaded Europe on June 5, 1944.
With two items no comma is required by may be used.
Ex. June 5 was the day to remember.

Homework Due Wednesday 3/5
In a brief essay (TAG 3), compare and contrast one of Dickinson's poems with one of Whitman's poems. Before you write, collect your points of comparison and contrast (subject matter, theme, tone, figures of speech).