"Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Open the link below and read the first three pages of the Letter.   After you have read the Letter, identify the techniques below that MLK uses.

MLKJr Letter

TECHNIQUES

A. Appeals

1. Logos

2. Pathos

3. Ethos

B. “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

1. Thesis

2. Appeals?

3. Rhetorical Techniques

a) Example

1. historical

a. biblical

b. philosophers

c. revolutionaries

2. everyday life

b) Cause and Effect

c) Classification/ Division

d) Definition

e) Process Analysis

"Story of an Hour" and "Richard Cory"

Write your responses to both of the following writing tasks in the Google document that you created and shared with me yesterday (if this is unclear, look at the previous post- from yesterday).

You must finish both of these writing tasks, below, by the end of this period.

A. Write a well-developed paragraph in which you use ideas from both "The Story of an Hour" (628-) and "Richard Cory" (644) to establish a controlling idea about appearances. Develop your controlling idea using specific examples and details from both poems.

B. Choose a specific literary element (e.g., theme, characterization, structure, point of view, etc.) or literary technique (e.g., symbolism, irony, figurative language, etc.) used by one of the poets. Using specific details from either “The Story of an Hour" or "Richard Cory”, in a well-developed paragraph, show how the author uses that element or technique to develop the passage.

Homework- Read Martin Luther King Jr.s "from Letter from Birmingham Jail" (p 1109-1112) and answer the questions that follow.

Exploring Modern Poetry with Comprehensive Responses

Write the following responses in a google document.

A. Write a well-developed paragraph in which you use ideas from both “anyone lived in a pretty how town” and “Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” to establish a controlling idea about individuality. Develop your controlling idea using specific examples and details from both poems.

B. Choose a specific literary element (e.g., theme, characterization, structure, point of view, etc.) or literary technique (e.g., symbolism, irony, figurative language, etc.) used by one of the poets. Using specific details from either “anyone lived ……” or  “Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”, in a well-developed paragraph, show how the author uses that element or technique to develop the passage.

Prufrock and anyone...

Second Half of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot

Your homework assignment from the previous class- read stanzas 7, 8 and 9.

A.     Summarize stanzas 7, 8, and 9 (Homework Grade)

7-

8-

9-

*What common point do all of these stanzas share?

B.     After listening to a reading of the rest of the poem, with annotations, read the rest of the poem to locate the literary elements that support the different aspects of the work; find at least three images that express each of the ideas below.  Be sure to identify three images for each idea. (Class work Grade)

Speaker rejected by women

Speaker attracted to feminine beauty

Speaker feeling unimportant, having no effect upon his environment

Speaker feeling misunderstood or reduced to lesser than he understands himself

Speaker’s indecision

Speaker’s sense of over self consciousness

C.     Answer questions 2, 3 and the Big Question (p 712)

Homework- 1. read e.e.  cummings’ “anyone lived in a pretty how town” (p 781)

2. Answer questions 4-6 (p 782) and 3. explain the meaning of the poem with support from the poem itself. 

Prufrock First Half

1. First Half

The Essential Question-

What does the character (speaker) represent in his Society (Modernism)?  

How is this a love song?  What does a love song consist of?

Vocabulary-

Alienation: reluctance, companionship, self consciousness

Stanzas 1-6

The Footnote/Allusion

What does the footnote promise and why?

Allusion- Dante’s Inferno – what is the relevance?

Simile-line 3- explain and identify

Imagery-lines 4-8; what kinds of places are these? Why do they choose to visit them?

Speaker’s Instruction-overwhelming question in lines 10-12; why

Significance of Allusion-significance of Michelangelo, characterization of women

Stanza 3: Imagery– What does this suggest about our speaker and his view of the city?

Connection –how is this similar to Paul Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask”- thematically?

Symbolism- in line 30, why “a plate”?  What does this suggest about the listener/ audience?

Speaker’s State of Mind  What happens before Tea?  What does this suggest about the speaker’s state of mind?

Repetition of Stanza 2-

What thematic connection can you make to explain the repetition?

Stanza 6: Speaker’s Characterization-

Explain the personality of the speaker, communicated in this stanza; use evidence to support your claim.

April 17- "Story of an Hour"

Read "Story of an Hour", beginning on page 628.  Summarize the events of the story, analyze the central idea of the story as a whole and identify the irony that contributes to the central idea.

Due by the end of the period- shared with me, as a google doc.

Macbeth Essay- last grade for the quarter

Make sure that you have written a critical essay in which you discuss William Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Macbeth, from the particular perspective of the statement that is provided in the Critical Lens, from the last post.  

This should have been written into a Google doc. and shared with me by the end of class on April 15.

This is the last project grade for the quarter. If it is not shared with me, it is a zero in my gradebook.

If you were absent April 15, this is due by the end of the period on April 16.  Those of you that were present on April 15, this work is late.

Macbeth Essay

Read the task to plan and then write a critical lens essay.

Apply the quote to:

Macbeth

Task- Write a critical essay in which you discuss William Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Macbeth, from the particular perspective of the statement that is provided in the Critical Lens.  In your essay, provide a valid interpretation of the statement, agree or disagree with the statement as you have interpreted it, and support your opinion using at least two specific references to appropriate literary elements from Macbeth only.  Write this into a Google doc. and share it with me.

Critical Lens:

“Much, however, of what we call evil is really good in disguise …” 
—Sir John Lubbock The Pleasures of Life, 1887

Guidelines:

            Be sure to

• Provide a valid interpretation of the critical lens that clearly establishes the criteria for analysis
• Indicate whether you agree or disagree with the statement as you have interpreted it
• Discuss only aspects of Macbeth by William Shakespeare that you believe best supports your opinion
• Use criteria suggested by the critical lens to analyze the work of Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Avoid plot summary.  Instead, use specific references to appropriate literary elements (for example: theme, characterization, setting, point of view) to develop your analysis
• Organize your ideas in a unified and coherent manner
• Specify the titles and authors of the literature you choose
• Follow the conventions of standard written English