Thursday, November 29, 2018

Agenda, November 29

  • Due Now: The Color Purple, pp. 1-289
  • Due Monday: Memorize Vocab Won - Fur
  • Due Tuesday: "How it Feels to be Colored Me," by Zora Neale Hurston, from 50 Essays, 2nd Edition (add it to your Bibliography). Do you remember how to take good newts?
Today's Agenda:
  1. Fun with timed writes ...
  2. When you're done, remove your sticky notes

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Bibliographical Information for The Color Purple


  1. Author.
Alice Walker
  1. “Title of source.”

  1. Title of container,
The Color Purple
  1. Other contributors,

  1. Version,

  1. Number,

  1. Publisher,
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co.
  1. Publication date,
2003
  1. Location.

  1. Date of Access. (for websites only)


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Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Color Purple Discussion Questions, Day 2


The Color Purple
Discussion Questions

All of the questions below should be answered with specific examples and direct quotations from the book. You may note those locations with sticky notes in your book. For ease in writing, you may want to remove sticky notes that don’t address those questions.

Your timed write question will most likely not be one of these questions, though the evidence you find will help you write your essay.

Answer questions one and two first, briefly. Revisit these questions again after you have considered the rest of the questions.

1.    What is Alice Walker’s purpose in writing The Color Purple? What does she want readers to do when they’ve finished the novel? How do you know?

2.    What is Alice Walker’s definition of justice? What behaviors are rewarded and punished in this book?

3.    Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple, explores a variety of attitudes towards religion. Locate moments where characters are discussing or practicing their faith. What conclusions can you draw about Walker’s attitude towards religion from these examples?

4.    While in Africa, Nettie witnesses the impact of white colonialism on the Olinka tribe. How do Nettie’s experiences in Africa contrast or reinforce Celie’s experiences in America?

5.    The Color Purple is a widely banned book, frequently appearing in the top 20 amongst lists of books that have been banned or challenged in an academic setting. What examples of language and content have caused this book to be so controversial? How does the inclusion of this content help (or hinder) Walker’s argument?


Agenda, November 27

Today's Agenda:
  1. How to Write a Timed Write
  2. About the Vocab ...
  3. Small Group Disco
  4. One last question ...

Need help cramming?

Thanks for the Quizlet, Sydney!

Monday, November 26, 2018

Color Purple Discussion Questions, Day 1


All of the questions below should be answered with specific examples and direct quotations from the book. You may note those locations with sticky notes in your book. For ease in writing, you may want to remove sticky notes that don’t address those questions.
Your timed write question will most likely not be one of these questions, though the evidence you find will help you write your essay.
Answer questions one and two first, briefly. Revisit these questions again after you have considered the rest of the questions.
1.    What is Alice Walker’s purpose in writing The Color Purple? What does she want readers to do when they’ve finished the novel? How do you know?
2.    Is Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, The Color Purple, a novel about race? gender? poverty? religion? something else? How do you know?
3.    Some of the characters in the novel could be characterized as submissive and some stand up for themselves. Over the course of the novel, identify moments of submission and moments when characters stand up for themselves? What are the consequences of these actions? What can we infer from these moments?
 
4.    In the early chapters of Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple, Celie meets a variety of characters who have an impact on the development of her identity. As the novel progresses, however, Celie begins to impact and shape other characters.  Looking at these incidents, what conclusions can we draw about Alice Walker’s beliefs about the way people develop their sense of self?

5.    How many families are there in the novel? How are they formed and how are they split? What makes families strong? Weak? Genuine? Artificial? What can we learn about families in the African American community from this novel? What can we learn about families in white society from this novel?

Agenda, November 26

  • Due Now: The Color Purple, pp. 1-289
  • Do for finals: Memorize Vocab Won - Fur
Today's Agenda:
  1. The Color Purple is about ...
  2. Two Index Cards
  3. Quick Whole Class Disco
  4. Small Group Disco

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Agenda, November 20

  • Due Now: The Color Purple, pp. 1-243
  • Due Next: The Color Purple, pp. 244-289
  • Due Now: Required revision of synthesis paper. Fix the five numbered issues (and more, if you'd like). Highlight your changes on the new draft. Clip new draft on top of old.
  • Do for finals: Memorize Vocab Won - Fur
Today's Agenda:
  1. The Color Purple is about ...
  2. Everyone leaves for Thanksgiving

Monday, November 19, 2018

Agenda, November 19

  • Due Now: The Color Purple, pp. 1-225
  • Due Next: The Color Purple, pp. 226-243
  • Due Tomorrow (or sooner): Required revision of synthesis paper. Fix the five numbered issues (and more, if you'd like). Highlight your changes on the new draft. Clip new draft on top of old.
  • Do for finals: Memorize Vocab Won - Fur
Today's Agenda:
  1. Per 4: Argument o' the Week, quick review
  2. Chapter Titles
  3. You get one quote
  4. Whole class disco

Friday, November 16, 2018

Agenda, November 16

  • Due Now: The Color Purple, pp. 1-191
  • Due Next: The Color Purple, pp. 192-225.
  • Due Tuesday (or sooner): Required revision of synthesis paper. Fix the five numbered issues (and more, if you'd like). Highlight your changes on the new draft. Clip new draft on top of old.
  • Do for finals: Memorize Vocab Won - Fur
Today's Agenda:
  1. Argument o' the Week, written portion
  2. Argument o' the Week, discussion

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Agenda, November 15

  • Due Now: The Color Purple, pp. 1-173
  • Due Next: The Color Purple, pp. 174-191
  • Due Tuesday (or sooner): Required revision of synthesis paper. Fix the five numbered issues (and more, if you'd like). Highlight your changes on the new draft. Clip new draft on top of old.
  • Do for finals: Memorize Vocab Won - Fur
Today's Agenda:

  1. Miss Celie's Blues
  2. While I was reading, I noticed ...
  3. More big ideas?

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Agenda, November 14

  • Due Now: The Color Purple, pp. 1-147
  • Due Next: The Color Purple, pp. 148-173
  • Do for finals: Memorize Vocab Won - Fur
Today's Agenda:
  1. Three urgent thoughts / questions
  2. Who is Bessie?
  3. Miss Celie's Blues

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Agenda, November 13

  • Due Now: The Color Purple, pp. 1-116
  • Due Next: The Color Purple, pp. 117-147
  • Do for finals: Memorize Vocab Won - Fur
Today's Agenda:
  1. Three Group Tasks: Chapter Titles, Big Ideas, A Purpose Statement
  2. Who is Bessie?
  3. Miss Celie's Blues

Friday, November 9, 2018

Agenda, November 9

  • Due Now: The Color Purple, pp. 1-83
  • Due Next: The Color Purple, pp. 84-116 
  • Do for finals: Memorize Vocab Won - Fur
Today's Agenda:

  1. Reading Strategies
  2. Make a Dialect Quiz
  3. Pages 58-68: connections to big ideas
  4. Pages 69-83: connections to big ideas
  5. Who is Bessie?

Thursday, November 8, 2018

Agenda, November 8

  • Due Now: The Color Purple, pp. 1-68
  • Due Next: The Color Purple, pp. 69-83 
  • Do for finals: Memorize Vocab Won - Fur
Today's Agenda:
  1. What did you see today?
  2. Pages 58-68: connections to big ideas
  3. Make a dialect quiz

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Agenda, November 7

  • Due Now: The Color Purple, pp. 1-57
  • Due Next: The Color Purple, pp. 58-68 
  • Do for finals: Memorize Vocab Won - Fur
  • Do Thursday: pay attention to the rhetoric at the Veteran's Day Assembly
Today's Agenda:
  1. Three (or four) things
  2. Whole Class Disco
  3. Make a dialect quiz

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Agenda, November 6

  • Due Now: The Color Purple, pp. 27-42
  • Due Next: The Color Purple, pp. 43-57
  • NaNoWriMo is here ... 
  • Do for finals: Memorize Vocab Won - Fur
  • Do Thursday: pay attention to the rhetoric at the Veteran's Day Assembly
Today's Agenda:
  1. Characters Continued
  2. While I was reading, I noticed ...
  3. Whole Class Disco
  4. A model TEP

Monday, November 5, 2018

Agenda, November 5

  • Due Now: Vocab Ate 
  • Due Now: The Color Purple, pp. 1-26
  • Due Next: The Color Purple, pp. 27-42
  • NaNoWriMo is here ... 
  • Do for finals: Memorize Vocab Won - Fur
Today's Agenda:
  1. I'm not exactly impressed with your control of litotes. Your understanding of its definition and uses is, shall we say, not precisely razor sharp. True understanding, of course, will not happen at the speed of light.
  2. Vocab Ate
  3. While I was reading, I noticed ...
  4. Whole Class Disco
  5. A model TEP

Friday, November 2, 2018

Agenda, November 2

  • Due Monday: Vocab Ate 
  • Due Monday: The Color Purple, pp. 1-26
  • Due Tuesday: The Color Purple, pp. 27-42
  • NaNoWriMo is here ... 
  • Due Now: Education Synthesis. Be sure to label your rhetorical devices. If you are ill, an electronic copy is due in my inbox by the beginning of class and a hard copy is due when you return.
Today's Agenda:
  1. Your best rhetorical device
  2. Effect and purpose in groups
  3. Effect and purpose solo
  4. Effect and purpose sharing

Thursday, November 1, 2018

The Color Purple Reading Schedule


Date
We will be discussing pages
Total pages to read
11/5
1-26
25
11/6
27-42
15
11/7
43-57
14
11/8 (Veteran’s Day Assembly)
58-68

10

11/9
69-83

14
11/13
84-99
100-106
107-116
15
6
9

32
11/14
117-147
30
11/15
148-173
25
11/16
174-191
17
11/19
192-207
208-225
15
32
17
11/20
226-243
17
11/26
244-255
256-276
277-289
11
20
12

45
11/27
Review

11/28
Finals

11/29
Finals

Education Synthesis Essay, 2018

Education Synthesis Essay

Due Friday, November 2


Considering several of the pieces we have read in this unit – as well as your personal reading, observation, and research – write an argument that explores ONE of the following questions: 1) What is the value of education?  OR 2) What is the best way for people to learn?

Typed. Double Spaced. Twelve point. No blank lines between paragraphs, except to indicate a major shift in tone or setting. Four – six pages. Don’t forget a title. Don’t forget your header.


Required:

·      Include three different rhetorical devices, used to create a specific effect. Underline and label your devices.

·      Support from a minimum of three classroom sources.

·      Support from a minimum of two additional source from a college level website. Consider looking at .edu, .gov, and .org websites.

·      At least two “synthesis” paragraphs.

·      Properly formatted Works Cited Page.


Suggested: End with a plan of action for the future. Employ anaphora in your conclusion.


Audience: 1) The editor of a nationally published magazine. 2) The well-educated readers of that magazine. 3) Yourself.


Purpose: 1) To explore contemporary issues regarding the way people learn and the way we teach 2) To evaluate the current state of education in America or the world at large. 3) To suggest a plan of action for the future.


How to approach this paper:

·      Develop an opinion on this subject.

·      Gather evidence (from our texts and from research) to support your opinion. This is an argument; therefore, personal experience is valid evidence and first person is an acceptable POV.

·      Create clear, defensible topic sentences.

·      Draft paragraphs with two quotations to support your topic sentences.

·      Draft paragraphs with an eye towards ethos, pathos, and logos.

·      Proofread to ensure your quotations are properly formatted and cited. For this essay, “you will need to include the author’s name in your parenthetical citation” (Kline 1).

·      Create your Works Cited page.

Agenda, November 1

  • Due Monday: Vocab Ate 
  • Due Now: Bring hard copies of all the essays we've read this year.
  • NaNoWriMo is here ... 
  • Due Tomorrow: Education Synthesis. Be sure to label your rhetorical devices. If you are ill, an electronic copy is due in my inbox by the beginning of class and a hard copy is due when you return.
Today's Agenda:

  1. He labors without complaining and without bragging rests.
  2. He labors without complaining and, without bragging, rests.
  3. A quick survey
  4. To the Library!
  5. The dominant rhetorical strategies