Today in class, we shared our Pithy Quotations and discussed the verities of authentic essay writing. Additionally, we discussed the rhetorical strategies in Joyas Voladoras as a model of an authentic essay. Today, I distributed an essay titled Living Like Weasels by another of my literary favorites, Annie Dillard. Students are reading and annotating for homework. What are the rhetorical tools that Dillard is using to convey her ideas? What is her argument? What are the notable moves that she is making with syntax, imagery, figurative language, diction? Here's a link to the essay: http://www.courses.vcu.edu/ENG200-lad/dillard.htm
After all of this, we had a bit of time left to read Story of the Door from Jekyll and Hyde. Whatever we did not finish is homework.
On Friday, we will do some rhetorical analysis with Story of the Door and the ways in which Stevenson sets up the idea of duality.
On Monday, we will take the first vocab quiz and you will receive the next crossword for the next section for which we will again explore context clues. We will quiz on that one on Friday, 11/ 21.
Here's something to look forward to: I don't like for any of us to have homework over Thanksgiving, Winter or Spring Breaks. So, there will be none.
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