Incidents like the one that took place on the subway platform at 13th and Market that has been in the news for the last couple of days can make it difficult to maintain faith in humanity. Write your reaction to those events, and how can you be part of the solution to the violence.
- "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
Lit Term
A mixed metaphor is a metaphor that fails to make a logical comparison because its mixed terms are visually or imaginatively incompatible. If you say, "The president is a lame duck who is running out of gas," you've lost control of your metaphor and have produced a statement that is ridiculous (ducks do not run out of gas).
Vocab Word
cajole (v.) to coax, persuade through flattery or artifice; to deceive with soothing thoughts or false promises
SYNONYMS: wheedle, inveigle, soft-soap, sweet-talk
ANTONYMS: coerce, force, strong-arm
Grammar/Punctuation
Voice is the form a verb takes to indicate whether the subject of the verb performs or receives the action.
A verb is in the active voice when its subject performs the action.
Ex. Julia Alvarez wrote "Daughter of Invention."
Friday, March 28, 2008
WUP for Friday, 3/28
Thursday, March 27, 2008
WUP for Thursday, 3/27
"What you really value is what you miss, not what you have." --Jorge Luis Borges
Think of someone who is no longer here--a teacher, a coach, a family member, or friend--whom you miss. What do you value most about your memory of this person? If this person were standing in front of you, what would you say to him or her?
Lit Term
An extended metaphor is a metaphor that is extended or developed over a number of lines or with several examples. Dickinson's poem beginning with "Fame is a bee" is an extended metaphor: the comparison of fame to a bee is extended for four lines:
Fame is a bee.
It has a song--
It has a sting--
Ah, too, it has a wing.
Vocab Word
vicarious (adj.) performed, suffered, or otherwise experienced by one person in place of another.
SYNONYMS: surrogate, substitute, imagined, secondhand
ANTONYMS: real, actual, firsthand
Grammar/Punctuation
Avoid unnecessary shifts in tense.
Inconsistent Tim marries Lisa and then abandoned her.
Consistent Tim marries Lisa and then abandons her.
Consistent Tim married Lisa and then abandoned her.
Think of someone who is no longer here--a teacher, a coach, a family member, or friend--whom you miss. What do you value most about your memory of this person? If this person were standing in front of you, what would you say to him or her?
Lit Term
An extended metaphor is a metaphor that is extended or developed over a number of lines or with several examples. Dickinson's poem beginning with "Fame is a bee" is an extended metaphor: the comparison of fame to a bee is extended for four lines:
Fame is a bee.
It has a song--
It has a sting--
Ah, too, it has a wing.
Vocab Word
vicarious (adj.) performed, suffered, or otherwise experienced by one person in place of another.
SYNONYMS: surrogate, substitute, imagined, secondhand
ANTONYMS: real, actual, firsthand
Grammar/Punctuation
Avoid unnecessary shifts in tense.
Inconsistent Tim marries Lisa and then abandoned her.
Consistent Tim marries Lisa and then abandons her.
Consistent Tim married Lisa and then abandoned her.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
WUP for Tuesday, 3/25
"You can't change the world. You can only change yourself." --Beatrice Wood
Beatrice Wood was 102 years old when she gave the above advice! If you could change one thing about yourself today, what would it be? If you could change one thing about the world today, what would it be?
Lit Term
An implied metaphor does not state explicitly the two terms of the comparison: "I like to see it lap the Miles" (Emily Dickinson) contains an implied metaphor in which the verb lap implies a comparison between "it," which is a train, and some animal that "laps" up water.
Vocab Word
extricate (v.) to free from entanglements or difficulties; to remove with effort
SYNONYMS: disentangle, extract, disengage
ANTONYMS: enmesh, entangle, involve
Grammar/Punctuation
Use a colon (:) when a list of items is to follow. A colon is not necessary after most uses of "is," "am," "are," "was," "were."
Ex. For safety, follow these rules: do not run, do not push or shove, and be sure to leave the area by 8:00 P.M.
Reflection
1. What was Douglass's purpose in writing this narrative? Explain.
Stop and Talk about your answer to someone sitting next to you.
2. When you hear the term human rights what does it make you think about? Why?
Stop and Talk
3. What is the main idea of Douglass's narrative?
Stop and Talk
Homework
Read "from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" --Harriet A. Jacobs pp 407-410
Answer questions 6-9
Beatrice Wood was 102 years old when she gave the above advice! If you could change one thing about yourself today, what would it be? If you could change one thing about the world today, what would it be?
Lit Term
An implied metaphor does not state explicitly the two terms of the comparison: "I like to see it lap the Miles" (Emily Dickinson) contains an implied metaphor in which the verb lap implies a comparison between "it," which is a train, and some animal that "laps" up water.
Vocab Word
extricate (v.) to free from entanglements or difficulties; to remove with effort
SYNONYMS: disentangle, extract, disengage
ANTONYMS: enmesh, entangle, involve
Grammar/Punctuation
Use a colon (:) when a list of items is to follow. A colon is not necessary after most uses of "is," "am," "are," "was," "were."
Ex. For safety, follow these rules: do not run, do not push or shove, and be sure to leave the area by 8:00 P.M.
Reflection
1. What was Douglass's purpose in writing this narrative? Explain.
Stop and Talk about your answer to someone sitting next to you.
2. When you hear the term human rights what does it make you think about? Why?
Stop and Talk
3. What is the main idea of Douglass's narrative?
Stop and Talk
Homework
Read "from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" --Harriet A. Jacobs pp 407-410
Answer questions 6-9
Monday, March 24, 2008
WUP for Monday, 3/24
Welcome Back!!!
"We don't ask a flower to give us any special reasons for its existence. We look at it and we are able to accept it as being something different, and different from ourselves."
--Gwendolyn Brooks (poet)
Substitute the word "person" for "flower." What deeper issue do you think Gwendolyn Brooks is talking about?
Lit Term
A metaphor is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles. There are several kinds of metaphor:
1. A directly stated metaphor states the comparison explicitly: "Fame is a bee" (Emily Dickinson).
Vocab Word
affable (adj.) courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to
SYNONYMS: genial, amicable, agreeable, cordial
ANTONYMS: surly, cantankerous, dour, inhospitable
Grammar/Punctuation
The Adverb Clause
An adverb clause is a subordinate clause that modifies a verb, an adjective, or an adverb. An adverb clause tells how, when where, why, to what extent, or under what condition. An adverb clause is introduced by a subordinating conjunction.
Ex. William Cullen Bryant wrote the first version of "Thanatopsis" when he was a teenager.
Ex. Thomas can explain naturalism to you better than I can.
Homework
Read "from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" pp 399-403.
Answer questions 1-7 on p 404.
"We don't ask a flower to give us any special reasons for its existence. We look at it and we are able to accept it as being something different, and different from ourselves."
--Gwendolyn Brooks (poet)
Substitute the word "person" for "flower." What deeper issue do you think Gwendolyn Brooks is talking about?
Lit Term
A metaphor is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles. There are several kinds of metaphor:
1. A directly stated metaphor states the comparison explicitly: "Fame is a bee" (Emily Dickinson).
Vocab Word
affable (adj.) courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to
SYNONYMS: genial, amicable, agreeable, cordial
ANTONYMS: surly, cantankerous, dour, inhospitable
Grammar/Punctuation
The Adverb Clause
An adverb clause is a subordinate clause that modifies a verb, an adjective, or an adverb. An adverb clause tells how, when where, why, to what extent, or under what condition. An adverb clause is introduced by a subordinating conjunction.
Ex. William Cullen Bryant wrote the first version of "Thanatopsis" when he was a teenager.
Ex. Thomas can explain naturalism to you better than I can.
Homework
Read "from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" pp 399-403.
Answer questions 1-7 on p 404.
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