Tuesday 12/8 ~ Power of One Ch. 3

JOURNAL CHECK ~ WEST ONLY
*ON Block Day!!! Journals 25-32 are game! Click here to see all links.

FINALS REVIEW

• Focus: Literature Review
• Could you recognize plot elements from the short stories we've read?
• Could you match each literary device to its definition?
• Could you name the writer of significant quotes from the writings we've studied?

Literary Devices

• Allegory
• Symbol
• Irony
• Theme
• Tone
• Allusion
• Conflict (internal and external)
• Point-of-View (first, various versions of third and unreliable)
• Direct Characterization
• Indirect Characterization (STEAL)
• Plot (exposition, complication, rising action, climax, epiphany, falling action, denouement)

THE POWER OF ONE

*Discuss Ch. 2.

*Add to your vocabulary list vocab for future reading:

• Neophytes (n.) - recent convert; beginner or novice (p.159)
• incongruous (adj.) - lacking in harmony; incompatible (p.165)
• Esoteric (adj.) - religious practices that come from mixing orthodox religious ideas with science, but the result is accepted by neither mainline religions or science. Ex/ new age and occult practices. Generally, this adjective describes something that is understood by very few (p.180)
• Punctilious (adj). - Following fine points of etiquette (p.180)
• fervent (adj.) - very emotional or heated
• equivocation (n.) - the use of ambiguous language; using noncommittal language (p.207)
• recidivist (n.) - one who has a tendency to laps into previous pattern of behavior, especially criminal activity (p. 207)
• imperious (adj.) - arrogangly domineering or overbearing, urgent pressing (p. 211)

*HW: Read Ch. 3 & do Journal 33

Journal 33 ~ WEST ONLY

After reading Chapters 1-4, write a 1/2 page response. What is the lesson or theme that the author most likely wants readers to learn about the nature of human cruelty and prejudice.

*Make sure your journal is complete with a basic thesis about a specific lesson and plenty of evidence grounded in the text to prove your idea.