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Unit 4 – Work & Class
Essential Questions:
How does work define the worker?
In what ways does social class, and the perceived class of self and others, affect identity?
Assertions:
“And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work
is the achieving of self-preservation.” –D.H. Lawrence
“A man (woman) willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s
inequality exhibits under the sun” –Thomas Carlyle
Terms to Date:
pathos
ethos
logos
persona
diction
connotation
allusion
figurative language
bias
analogies
paradox
rhetorical questions
sentence variety
pacing
imperative sentences
irony
tone
repetition
parallelism
pronouns; 1st, 2nd, 3rd
juxtaposition
allegory
evidence
Additional Terms to Define:
mood
apostrophe
euphemism
metonymy
litotes
synecdoche
invective
didactic
colloquialism
motif
non sequitur
active voice
passive voice
Texts
“The Handicap of Definition” by William Raspberry
“On Dumpster Diving” by Lars Eighner
From Serving in Florida by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Atlanta Exposition Address by Booker T. Washington
“The Traveling Salesman’s Lessons” by Claudia O’Keefe
From Labour by Thomas Carlyle
From The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
“In Praise of a Snail’s Pace” by Ellen Goodman
Round Table Discussion: Marilyn Gardner, “More Working Parents Play ‘Beat the Clock’”; Amelia
Warren Tyagi, “Why Women Have to Work”; Claudia Wallis “The Case for Staying Home”;
Christopher Mele, Sick Parents Go to Work, Stay Home When Kids are Ill; Kimberly Palmer, My
Mother, Myself, Her Career, My Questions; Buzz McClain, Don’t Call Me Mr. Mom
“The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara
“Living it: Tim Blixseth” by Robert Frank
“Class in America -2006” by Gregory Mantsios
“Framing Class, Vicarious Living, and Conspicuous Consumption” by Diana Kendall
From The Missing Class by Katherine S. Newman and Victor Tan Chen
“Tent City, USA” by Maria L. La Ganga
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From America’s New Working Class by Kathleen R. Arnold
Varied Images of Workers (image)
I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen (fiction)
“Harvest Song” by Jean Toomer (poem)
“The Pedigree of Honey” by Emily Dickinson (poem)
“We Can Do It!” by J. Howard Miller (image)
Jeff Parker, The Great GAPsby Society (cartoon)
Episode of 30 Days – Minimum Wage
In-Class Essay
From an AP Exam Out of Class Essay
Draft of this essay will include peer-editing –
Please write an essay in which you argue a thesis about either work or class (or synthesizing the two) and
support it with your choice of 3-6 sources from this unit.
Ongoing Assignment
Infobank (Current Events Project)
Assignments:
-Blog posting – 1 post per week; You will receive a grade for this at the end of the semester
-Weekly vocabulary quizzes each Thursday – 25 points per quiz
-Nightly reading assignments (reading assignments always mean annotation)
-Regular rhetorical analysis assignments (SOAPS-Tone, OPTICS, etc.)
-Quarter 2 Reading List must be completed before Semester Exams
Approximate Schedule
Week 1
M, Nov 7 – Vocabulary Quiz 8; Discuss concept of work and class, review syllabus; begin reading “Traveling
Salesman…”
HW: Finish reading “Traveling Salesman…”
T, Nov 8 – News Assignment Given; Read excerpt from Nickel & Dimed
HW: Read “On Dumpster Diving”
W, Nov 9 – Discuss “On Dumpster Diving” and read “Living It”
HW: Read “Framing Class”
R, Nov 10 – Vocabulary Quiz 9; discuss “Framing Class”
HW: Please read the six “roundtable discussion” authors for our discussion on Monday.
Week 2
M, Nov 14 – News Assignment Part 1 due (introduce your news topic to the class); Roundtable discussion of
authors
HW: Read “Class in America – 2006”
T, Nov 15 – Discuss “Class in America – 2006” and “Handicap of Definition”
HW: Read “The Writing Life”
W, Nov 16 – Discuss homework; “Tent City” and “America’s New Working Class”
HW: Study for vocabulary quiz (word webs) and read “In Praise of a Snail’s Pace”
R, Nov 17 – Vocabulary Quiz 10; images
HW: Read excerpt from “Labor”
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Week 3
M, Nov 21 – News Assignment Part 2 due; Poem Comparison; Begin reading “The Missing Class”
HW: Finish reading “The Missing Class” and “I Stand Here Ironing”
T, Nov 22 – Discuss homework readings and Booker T. Washington essay
HW: First draft of Out of Class Essay due by midnight tonight
Week 4
T, Nov 29 – News Assignment Part 3 due; Read “The Lesson” and discuss
HW: Prepare for in class essay
W, Nov 30 – In Class Essay
HW: Study for vocabulary quiz (word webs)
R, Dec 1 –Vocabulary Quiz 11 & 12 (A random 15 words will appear on this quiz from the two lessons; you
may choose the 15 to turn in as word webs). Begin watching 30 Days
HW: TBD
Week 5
M, Dec 5 – News Assignment Part 4 due; Finish watching 30 days
HW: Out of class essay due tomorrow by midnight
T, Dec 6 – Out of Class Essay final draft due by midnight