Friday, 6 November 2015

November 6

Root quiz 2 handed back today, REDO IF NEEDED BEFORE NOVEMBER 20th. Ask Hanlon after school or at lunch hour.


Take out Literary terms, and the article of "Bliss not found in stores next to iPhones"-
What is the epigraph?
What is the allusion?
Where can you find rhetorical question?
Consider how it is an informal essay.
What persuasive technique does he use- to convince the reader of?

Allusion: To "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".
Epigraph: Quote at beginning of article.
Informal Essay: -Everyday problem (Phone dependence).
                          -Intimate tone.
                          - His perspective (personal).
Persuasive technique: -Alludes poem
                                   -Contrast (Poem-today)
                                   -Intimate tone
                                  - Rhetorical question
Rhetorical question: "How's your inward eye these days?"

Course question article: "Bliss not found in stores next to iPhone".

Read: "The Taxpayer" March 2000 today! Why do you think this is called "The Taxpayer"?

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Double block!

"April 2000: The Third Expedition" by Ray Bradbury worksheet and read.

Religion and Music list.

Chapter breakdown: 

  • Rocket voyage.
  • Approaching Mars.
  • Responses to Mars.
  • The Earth-like house.
  • The town.
  • Part one: 41-46: Land on Mars, cautious about exiting rocket. 
  • Part 2: 47-48: Debating theories to explain this town. 
  • Part 3: 48-50: they think they landed on Earth in the past.
  • Part 4: Settling on a theory; meeting Lustig's grandparents. 
  • Part 5: 53-57: All crew leaves with family. 
  • pg 57- 62: Capt. Black with family; in bed, he figures it out!!!
  • pg.62-63: Funeral for the crew. 

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