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 Vocab quiz
 Go to T101 for guidance presentation

 DOL #23
 The plan for now until the test.
 Present symbols poster & take notes
 Determine central argument of each critical essay and discuss
 Homework:
 Read pgs. 48-81 in Everyday Use . Be ready to apply ideas on Tuesday. Quiz on reading on
Thursday. You can use one large index card.
 Vocab 12 quiz Tuesday.
 Vocab 13 quiz Monday, 3/17

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 Objective: Students will understand the meaning of five symbols in The Great Gatsby and will identify the central argument and supporting details in five critical essays.
 DOL #24
 Vocab 12 quiz
 Present symbols posters & take notes
 Finish discussing critical essays
 Homework:
 Everyday Use quiz Thursday
 Vocab 13 quiz Monday

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Objective: Students will know how to do a “what/how analysis” by practicing with passages from The Great Gatsby.
 DOL #25
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Finish discussing critical essays
Close reading using “what/how analysis”
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What does the author say?
What is the author’s purpose?
 How does the author achieve that purpose?
 Homework:
 Everyday Use quiz tomorrow
 Vocab 13 quiz Monday

 Everyday Use quiz
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Gatsby synthesis essay
“I Can’t Even” article
 Homework:
 Vocab quiz and what/how passage analysis due
Monday
 Vocab quiz 14 Thursday, March 20 th
 Gatsby paper due Thursday, March 27 th at 5:00 P.M. to turnitin.com
 Read Declaration of Independence and Declaration of
Sentiments and Resolutions, identify syllogism / enthymeme by Monday

 The thesis should be your original idea. It should say something about the text that isn’t immediately apparent.
 Each paragraph should begin (statement) and end (analysis) with your own idea. Use the articles and text to back up your argument about the text (proof). You can quote directly or paraphrase, but remember to cite an idea that you get from the scholars even if you don’t quote it.
 Make sure the paper and the Works Cited are properly formatted according to MLA style.

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Objective: to identify and compare syllogisms and rhetorical devices in the
Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
DOL #26
Vocab 13 quiz
Hand in paragraphs
 Identify the major premise, minor premise, and conclusions in both Declarations
 Discuss how Jefferson and Stanton achieve their purposes.
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Homework:
Gatsby paper due Thursday, March 27 th at 5:00 P.M. to turnitin.com
Read Of Cannibals for tomorrow
Read Uncle Tom’s Cabin for Thursday
Read “Common Sense” for Friday
Declarations of Independence due Friday @ 5PM to turnitin

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Objective: To generalize our discussion of the declarations into a partial framework for rhetorical analysis, apply that framework to another text, and learn how to do a “says / does” analysis.
DOL #27
Discuss papers
Hand in what/how analyses (from yesterday —oops!)
Finish discussion of declarations
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Meta-analysis: what did we discuss?
Discuss Of Cannibals : “Says/Does” Analysis
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Homework
Gatsby paper due Thursday, March 27 th
Read Uncle Tom’s Cabin for Thursday
Read “Common Sense” for Friday at 5:00 P.M. to turnitin.com
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Declarations of Independence due Friday @ 5PM to turnitin
Letter reflections due Monday, 3/24 (paper copy)

Jump-starting a says/does analysis for Of
Cannibals (paragraph-by-paragraph)
What does the paragraph say?
1. American Indians are not savage;
Europeans only think they’re savage because they’re unfamiliar to
Europeans. What we think of “savage” is actually closer to nature, uncorrupted by civilization. There’s no reason to think that the ability to alter nature is superior to living in nature without changing it. Europeans are actually
“savage” because we’ve altered things that nature made perfect to fit our
“corrupted taste.” Nevertheless, nature is superior to technology and art.
What does the paragraph do?
Montaigne introduces his argument by countering the European definition of
“wild” and arguing for a redefinition of the term “savage.” He develops a contrast between art (technology or any alteration of nature) and Nature, personifying nature with reverent diction
(“beauty,” “riches,” “purity”) and using violent diction to characterize the actions of Europeans toward nature
(“surcharged” and “overchoked”). He emphasizes the inherent superiority of nature by dismissing all human enterprise to change it, using diction that belittles and undermines those to seek to alter nature, like “vain,”
“frivolous,” and ashamed.”

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Objective: To continue practicing different approaches to rhetorical analysis
DOL #28
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Vocab 14 Quiz (10 minutes)
Finish Of Cannibals “says / does” analysis and discuss
Good examples of Gatsby what / how analyses
Analyze Uncle Tom’s Cabin in groups, then together.
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Homework
Gatsby paper due Thursday, March 27 th at 5:00 P.M. to turnitin.com
Read “Common Sense” for Friday
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Declarations of Independence due Friday @ 5PM to turnitin
Letter reflections due Monday, 3/24 (paper copy)
Read “The Devil and Tom Walker” for Wednesday, 3/26