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).