Update Oct. 21

Bellwrite: Define the following terms and give an example of each:

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• onomatopoeia
• oxymoron
• alliteration

We reviewed the distinction between WHAT someone says and HOW they say. HOW someone says in writing is determined by choices about the following elements. (Note, bolded words are most likely new literary terms that students should know.)

• organization (groups of paragraphs working together to establish "chunks" of thought)
• images (including literary tropes such as metaphors, similes, personification, etc.)
• syntax (how clauses, phrases, and words are put together to create sentence fluency and emphasis)
• diction (including attention to the sounds the words make--consonance, assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, etc.)

Decisions about HOW to say something in writing influence determine WHAT is communicated. They create the emotional and logical appeals of messages.  Imagine the different ways to "deliver" a first kiss, and you will quickly get the idea that HOW determines WHAT. The tone of a text is the writer's attitude and emotions towards the subject and towards the audience.

Students received a set of study questions to guide their thinking about Dillard's essay. They worked in pairs on responding to these questions, writing their responses on lined paper.

Homework
Finish responding to the study questions for Dillard's essay.
Study vocabulary from Dillard's essay:
exult (15)
minutiae (17)
nonchalant (16)
appall (19)
pallor (19)
roil (20)
sere (20)
limpid (25)
unencumbered (26)
tactual (27)
dissimulation (28)

AP
Students worked to rewrite their essays on the Thomas Paine prompt. This effort represents a synthesis of all that we learned during Term 1 about argument.