5/18/15
READ: Finish up through chapter 14 for
tomorrow (and the guide questions)
HW:
1. Complete the class work (chapters 11-14 guide
questions) – for Wednesday.
2. Finish vocabulary unit 12 for Thursday
*** Unit 11 vocabulary quiz make ups! (it’s a speed
quiz – you have 3 minutes to finish the quiz)
5/19/15
READ: Finish up through chapter 14 for
tomorrow (and the guide questions)
HW:
1. Complete the class work (chapters 11-14 guide
questions) – for tomorrow.
2. Finish vocabulary unit 12 for Thursday
5/20/15
TEST Chapters 1-14
TEST RULES:
1. You may work with ONLY one partner – write your
partner’s name on your test.
2. You may use your books (no guide questions, no
devices, NO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES).
3. Both partners must submit the test at the same
time.
HW: Finish vocabulary unit 12 for Thursday
5/21/15
Task: Rhetorical Analysis on VOICE
DO NOW:
SPEED QUIZ!!!!!!!!!!
HW: Vocabulary Unit TEST next week THURSDAY,
MAY 28th on Units 10-12. Vocabulary books will be
collected and checked.
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Tuesday – Finish rhetorical analysis (TCOW)
Wednesday – POST TEST
Thursday – Unit Test on vocabulary units 10-12
Friday – Mini research project
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Monday – Finish mini research project
Tuesday – Brief review for the (skills based) final
Wednesday – Final Day 1
Thursday – Final Day 2
Friday – Spelling?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Monday – Creative writing project
Tuesday – Creative writing project
Wednesday – Creative writing project
Thursday – Creative writing project
Friday – Creative writing project
Voice is…
An author’s distinctive use of language to
express his or her persona. Another way of
describing voice is that it is the narrator’s
personality as established through the choices
they make in his/her writing.
OR
Diction + Syntax + Imagery + Other Literary
Devices = Voice (author’s personality)
Analyzing Voice in Literature
• DICTION (word choice) is the foundation of voice
and contributes to all of its elements
• DETAIL (facts, observations, and incidents) is used
to develop a topic, shaping and seasoning voice
• IMAGERY (verbal representation of sense
experience) brings the immediacy of sensory
experience to writing and gives voice a distinctive
quality
• SYNTAX (grammatical sentence structure) controls
verbal pacing and focus
• TONE (expression of attitude) gives voice its
distinctive personality
Some of you may be wondering
what the difference is between
voice and tone.
• You could consider tone a subset of voice. If
voice is the personality of a story, then tone is
the mood. Although lots of writers could
describe their voice as funny, the mood of their
individual pieces might be dark or biting or silly
or sarcastic.
TASK – Rhetorical analysis: How does the
writing demonstrate the difference between
the voice of Ruth and the voice of James?
• Find a passage in any of the alternating chapters that
epitomizes the voice of Ruth and then again for the voice of
James. How are they different? Be sure to:
– Establish a claim about Ruth and James’ voices.
• James’ voice is _________. Ruth’s voice is __________.
– For both Ruth and James, find a passage that exemplifies
their voices.
– Within the passage, find examples of diction, imagery,
syntax, detail, tone and any other rhetorical devices that
help to develop each person’s voice.
– Explain how the rhetorical devices develop each person’s
voice.
• “Sometimes without conscious realization, our
thoughts, our faith, out interests are entered into the
past. We talk about other times, other places, other
persons, and lose our living hold on the present.
Sometimes we think if we could just go back in time we
would be happy. But anyone who attempts to reenter
the past is sure to be disappointed. Anyone who has
ever revisited the place of his birth after years of
absence is shocked by the differences between the
way the place actually is, and the way he has
remembered it. He may walk along old familiar streets
and roads, but he is a stranger in a strange land. He has
thought of this place as home, but he finds he is no
longer here even in spirit. He has gone onto a new and
different life, and in thinking longingly of the past, he
has been giving thought and interest to something that
no longer really exists.”