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Wednesday, October 12. We will have a shortened period today but plan on presenting the four sections of Machiavelli’s Morals of The Prince that you began last Thursday, October 6. If we have time remaining we will also discuss Cicero’s Duties of the Individual to the State as a comparison/contrast.

Friday, October 14. We will be taking an open-book/open-note test on the Italian, Roman and Greek philosophers, Socrates,Plato, Cicero and Machiavelli. There will also be a timed-writing essay (45minutes). You will later edit these essays before receiving a final grade on them. We will take the essay first and then the remaining time will be used for the multiple-choice test.

In order to prepare for this test, it is in your best interest to re-read the four essays and take copious notes all over them–MARK THEM UP.

In addition you may want to be familiar with the following term for the purposes of recognizing them in the texts.
alliteration
allusion
allegory
analogy
rhetorical question
parallelism
antonyms
juxtaposition
antithesis
personification

Week 9

Tuesday October 18. We will edit philosopher’s essays and begin discussion and notes of The Age of Reason. We will also be working on Patrick Henry’s speech.

Thursday October 20. We will begin a Socratic seminar on The Scarlett Letter and discussion on Thomas Paine’s The Crisis.

Tuesday- 9/27 We took a surprise quiz on The Scarlett Letter -Chapter 13. You should be read up through chapter 18 by thursday.

We briefly recapped some ideas from Socrates from last Friday. We began reading and analyzing Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.. We watched a short animated video on it and compared it to the movie, The Matrix.

Your homework was to complete questions 1,2 and 4 (skip 3) in preparation for your quiz on Allegory of the Cave on Thursday.

Thursday -9/29– We took a practice PSAT, Section 1 in preparation for the PSAT on October 12. We discussed test-taking strategies and you scored yourself to see how you did.

We also took a quiz on Plato’s allegory of the cave and graded it in class.

Your homework is to read Machiavelli’s “Morals of the Prince”–handout and to read chapters 19-22 for Monday.

Tuesday, 9/13– Today we will discuss the symbolism in the first three chapters of The Scarlett Letter.

We will also do a Tone analysis of the The Star-Spangled Banner.

Homework: Read Chapters 4 and 5

Thursday 9/15. Today will look at the idea of Synthesis in The Language of Composition. We will then view and discuss three examples of Synthesis with two speeches on the life of Princess Diana.

We will grade our quiz on Cofer’s Myth of the Latin Woman.

Homework is to read Chapters 4-11 for Monday. We will have a quiz on chapters 4-9 on Monday.

Wednesday 9/7/11. Homework due: Turn in Memoir and objects. Share objects in class.

Voice Lessons.

Language of Composition: Pages 17-25.

Homework: Begin reading a copy of The Scarlett Letter–Chapters 1-3 by 9/13.

Friday 9/9/11.

Quiz on Cofer’s Myth of the Latin Woman.
Finish reading and discussing pages 17-25.

Tone/Tune Anaylsis

Today you will turn in your humorous vocab word definitions and we will discuss Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris and watch a brief interview with David Sedaris

Read Cofer’s “The Myth of the Latin Woman”

allusion to West Side Story–Youtube video.

Don’t forget that your memoir and object d’art are due on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011.

Memoir+Project-1