Tuesday: 2/22 - Happy birthday, Shane!
IC: You will turn in your completed satirical genre poem with the workshop sheet and draft stapled neatly underneath. Then you'll complete a reading quiz over chapters two through four of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. We'll discuss the reading selection, addressing characterization and the development of key concepts. We'll focus on the passage that describes the war movie Billy watches backwards as a starting place for your Writer's Notebook Entry #8. Then you'll work together to complete a Lesson Seven Vocabulary Review Exercise, and we'll go over an introduction to Lesson Eight Vocabulary (test on Monday, 2/28).
Materials: Bring your completed satirical genre poem, copy of Slaughterhouse-Five, class notes, and vocabulary book to class.
HW: Complete Writer's Notebook Entry #8.
Wednesday: 2/23 - Change of plans: you'll have a substitute teacher in today.
IC: You will receive a copy of Kurt Vonnegut's "Fates Worse Than Death." You will have the class period to read and annotate the speech. Your annotations are due in class tomorrow.
Materials: Bring your class notes.
HW: Complete annotations of Kurt Vonnegut's speech for class tomorrow.
Thursday: 2/24
IC: We will review the elements of the rhetorical situation, using a PIGSAC chart as a guide. We'll read and discuss Vonnegut's speech, identifying elements of the rhetorical situation. Then we'll review the concept of rhetorical strategies, and you'll work together to identify Vonnegut's use of rhetorical strategies in the speech.
Materials: Bring your class notes and completed annotations of "Fates Worse Than Death."
Friday: 2/25
IC: You'll begin by completing a brief reading quiz over chapter five of Slaughterhouse-Five. We'll discuss the reading selection. You'll work together to complete a Lesson Eight Vocabulary Review Exercise. We'll return our discussion to the concept of rhetorical analysis, this time focusing on the author's use of rhetorical strategies in order to achieve a specific purpose. We'll generate a list of the techniques that Vonnegut employs in his speech, and you'll make connections to his purpose. We'll discuss the structure of a written rhetorical analysis (much like a literary analysis), and we'll work together as a class to begin composing a rhetorical analysis of Vonnegut's speech.
Materials: Bring your class notes, copy of Slaughterhouse-Five, vocabulary book, copy of "Fates Worse Than Death," and class notes.
