Grammar page 143-144 Review A & B.
SOAPSTone Notes & FIDDS Notes
Practice on The Giving Tree
Re-read MLK's Letter From Birmingham Jail and identify SOAPSTone. Due Wednesday.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
REHUGO #1
Nisha Rangel
Mr. Soeth
English 3 AP
January 27, 2011
REHUGO Analysis #1 – Reading: In Search of the Good Family.
A. Essay: In Search of the Good Family. Author: Jane Howard.
B. Howard’s thesis is that all human beings need a family, clan, or a tribe in order
to survive in the world. No matter how far we move away or how we no longer keep in
touch, we will always have someplace that we came from and a home to fall back and
rely on.
C. Towards the beginning of Howard’s essay, she strongly emphasizes the importance
of family and how we should rely on them more often and even consider family as a
part of our friends,unless they do not want to be considered friends. “For this we
must rely on our families of friends. If our relatives are not, do not wish to be,
or for whatever reasons cannot be our friends,then by some complex alchemy we must
try to transform our friends into our relatives.”, this provides an example of
pathos, by showing how family needs to be valued more and considered as more than
just family. As Howard goes on she begins to provide evidence on ethos by
giving advice on how to maintain or start good families. For example, she lists
steps one through ten beginning with “1. Good families have a chief, or a heroine,
or a founder – someone around whom others cluster, whose achievements, as the
Yiddish word has it, let them kvell and whose example spurs them on to like feats.”,
and by giving advice to the reader, it shows that she has experienced these events
and is trying to help others correct what may have been something her family has and
other families may need.
D. Some of the rhetorical strategies Howard uses is process analysis, repetition,
and rhetorical questions. Howard uses process analysis by listing ten steps on how
to begin or maintain a good family, such as “1. Good families have a chief or a
founder…2. Good families have a switchboard operator…3. Good families are much to
all their members, but everything to none…4. Good families are hospitable...5. Good
families deal squarely with direness…6. Good families prize their rituals...7. Good
families are affectionate…8. Good families have a sense of place…9. Good families
find some way to connect with posterity…10. Good families also honor their elders.”
She also uses repetition throughout the essay to emphasize certain points of her
argument to her audience. In her first paragraph, for example, she opens with
repetition of the word call and you, “Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a
tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. You
need one because you are human. You didn’t come from nowhere. Before you, around
you, and presumably after you, too, are others.”, this helps better her argument
because it make the audience focus on how the essay relates to themselves and how
their family is. Another strategies Howard uses is rhetorical questions. By using
questions like “What can such times teach us about forming new and more lasting
tribes in the future?” and “Have not the Japanese for years had an honored,
enduring – if perhaps by our standards rather rigid – custom of adopting
nonrelatives to fill gaps in their families?” to get the audience to think about how
their families are and what could be learned and improved within their family as
well.
MLA Citation for Essay:
Howard, Jane. In Search of the Good Family. From Families in Atlantic Magazine.
Copyright © 1978 by Jane Howard.
Mr. Soeth
English 3 AP
January 27, 2011
REHUGO Analysis #1 – Reading: In Search of the Good Family.
A. Essay: In Search of the Good Family. Author: Jane Howard.
B. Howard’s thesis is that all human beings need a family, clan, or a tribe in order
to survive in the world. No matter how far we move away or how we no longer keep in
touch, we will always have someplace that we came from and a home to fall back and
rely on.
C. Towards the beginning of Howard’s essay, she strongly emphasizes the importance
of family and how we should rely on them more often and even consider family as a
part of our friends,unless they do not want to be considered friends. “For this we
must rely on our families of friends. If our relatives are not, do not wish to be,
or for whatever reasons cannot be our friends,then by some complex alchemy we must
try to transform our friends into our relatives.”, this provides an example of
pathos, by showing how family needs to be valued more and considered as more than
just family. As Howard goes on she begins to provide evidence on ethos by
giving advice on how to maintain or start good families. For example, she lists
steps one through ten beginning with “1. Good families have a chief, or a heroine,
or a founder – someone around whom others cluster, whose achievements, as the
Yiddish word has it, let them kvell and whose example spurs them on to like feats.”,
and by giving advice to the reader, it shows that she has experienced these events
and is trying to help others correct what may have been something her family has and
other families may need.
D. Some of the rhetorical strategies Howard uses is process analysis, repetition,
and rhetorical questions. Howard uses process analysis by listing ten steps on how
to begin or maintain a good family, such as “1. Good families have a chief or a
founder…2. Good families have a switchboard operator…3. Good families are much to
all their members, but everything to none…4. Good families are hospitable...5. Good
families deal squarely with direness…6. Good families prize their rituals...7. Good
families are affectionate…8. Good families have a sense of place…9. Good families
find some way to connect with posterity…10. Good families also honor their elders.”
She also uses repetition throughout the essay to emphasize certain points of her
argument to her audience. In her first paragraph, for example, she opens with
repetition of the word call and you, “Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a
tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. You
need one because you are human. You didn’t come from nowhere. Before you, around
you, and presumably after you, too, are others.”, this helps better her argument
because it make the audience focus on how the essay relates to themselves and how
their family is. Another strategies Howard uses is rhetorical questions. By using
questions like “What can such times teach us about forming new and more lasting
tribes in the future?” and “Have not the Japanese for years had an honored,
enduring – if perhaps by our standards rather rigid – custom of adopting
nonrelatives to fill gaps in their families?” to get the audience to think about how
their families are and what could be learned and improved within their family as
well.
MLA Citation for Essay:
Howard, Jane. In Search of the Good Family. From Families in Atlantic Magazine.
Copyright © 1978 by Jane Howard.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Updates
Sorry I have been off the grid for a couple of days, here is what you missed from Monday and Wednesday.
Monday:
Grammar - review A page 130
Finished group notes on the reading and sharing out what we covered/searched for as far as rhetorical devices.
Research project, we began our discussion on research projects.
Choose a topic, narrow it down (it is an argumentative paper) and create some questions to guide your research. Type this up for credit.
If you have time, start looking for sources.
Wednesday:
Grammar - Read page 137 and 138, take notes.
Complete exercise 8 and Review B on page 139-140.
We refined our research piece, if you have questions come and see me now. More info on research at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/658/01
REHUGO due tomorrow.
Monday:
Grammar - review A page 130
Finished group notes on the reading and sharing out what we covered/searched for as far as rhetorical devices.
Research project, we began our discussion on research projects.
Choose a topic, narrow it down (it is an argumentative paper) and create some questions to guide your research. Type this up for credit.
If you have time, start looking for sources.
Wednesday:
Grammar - Read page 137 and 138, take notes.
Complete exercise 8 and Review B on page 139-140.
We refined our research piece, if you have questions come and see me now. More info on research at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/658/01
REHUGO due tomorrow.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
REHUGO Assignment
Here is a link to the document
REHUGO 3rd quarter
First entry is due this Thursday. All entries should appear as blog posts. Do not forget to cite your sources, you should have a works cited appear at the end of the document.
Let me know if you have questions.
Mr. Soeth
REHUGO 3rd quarter
First entry is due this Thursday. All entries should appear as blog posts. Do not forget to cite your sources, you should have a works cited appear at the end of the document.
Let me know if you have questions.
Mr. Soeth
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
1-19-11
Grammar
—Read and take notes page 124-125 Nominative, Possessive, & Objective.
—Exercise 1 on page 126-127 1-10
HW for next Monday, bring in - either written or typed - your research topic and hypothesis. Remember, you are the funnel that narrows your topic down. Look for connections in your questions and hypothesis.
Continue work on REHUGO 1 - due on the blog by next Thursday. Additionally, email me so that you can be added to the correct blog for your class, period 1 or period 2.
We finished reading Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, answer the questions on rhetoric and style, 1-12, due tomorrow. Also, I will be asking for your notes on the reading.
—Read and take notes page 124-125 Nominative, Possessive, & Objective.
—Exercise 1 on page 126-127 1-10
HW for next Monday, bring in - either written or typed - your research topic and hypothesis. Remember, you are the funnel that narrows your topic down. Look for connections in your questions and hypothesis.
Continue work on REHUGO 1 - due on the blog by next Thursday. Additionally, email me so that you can be added to the correct blog for your class, period 1 or period 2.
We finished reading Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, answer the questions on rhetoric and style, 1-12, due tomorrow. Also, I will be asking for your notes on the reading.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
1-18-11
Hope you enjoyed your three day weekend, here is what we did today.
Grammar page 122 Preview A & B 1-20
Passed back papers
Reviewed - basic - your REHUGO's turned in thus far and looked ahead to REHUGO for this quarter.
For Wednesday, make sure you have your Job Application and make sure you have your test answer key from the final.
We will also be working on the book.
Also, check out anything you can find on Steve Jobs stepping down from Apple for a leave of absence. After this announcement, Apple's stock overseas fell 8%. Why woudl this happen?
Your REHUGO assignment will be posted online soon, I will send it out here on the blog and via Twitter, www.twitter.com/SoethEngClass.
Grammar page 122 Preview A & B 1-20
Passed back papers
Reviewed - basic - your REHUGO's turned in thus far and looked ahead to REHUGO for this quarter.
For Wednesday, make sure you have your Job Application and make sure you have your test answer key from the final.
We will also be working on the book.
Also, check out anything you can find on Steve Jobs stepping down from Apple for a leave of absence. After this announcement, Apple's stock overseas fell 8%. Why woudl this happen?
Your REHUGO assignment will be posted online soon, I will send it out here on the blog and via Twitter, www.twitter.com/SoethEngClass.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Homework Assignment
If you are in AP you need to read this article. http://ow.ly/3AvTg One to two pages, rhetorical strategies, agree or disagree and why. Due on Thursday, let me know if you have questions. I also encourage you to print out the article, high light and label just as we do in class.
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