Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Satirical Cartoon Examples
Remember the goal of satire is to effect change.
Political Cartoon American Revolution
social satire
Racism
Political Cartoon American Revolution
social satire
Racism
Political Cartoons and Cartoonists
Political Cartoons and Cartoonists
Use the cartoons below or select and analyze other cartoons at:http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/child_labor_intro.html
Cartoon 1
Early investigations of conditions in southern cotton mills made it appear to be a regional problem until it was discovered that many of them were owned by northern capitalists.
Citation: "White Slavery: Northern Capital and Southern Child Labor." New York American and Journal; rpt. Literary Digest 28 (Oct. 18, 1902). http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/cl021018.html In Jim Zwick, ed., Political Cartoons and Cartoonists. http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/pc_intro.html (Sept. 25, 2004).
Cartoon 2
PARENT: "No, Sir, I don't send 'em to work from greed, but because I've got to. But if I done it from downright Selfishness, what do you think of the Social conditions of a Republic that would turn parents into something worse than brutes?"
Uncle Sam holds a document labeled, "Land Monopoly System, High Tariff, Trust Rule."
Citation: Bengough, John Wilson. "The Child Labor Question." The Public 6 (May 16, 1903). http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/cl030516.html In Jim Zwick, ed., Political Cartoons and Cartoonists. http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/pc_intro.html (Sept. 25, 2004).
Check for Understanding | Printable Student View |
- What is the message of each of the cartoons?
- What more can you learn about child labor by studying each of the cartoons more carefully?
- How does a cartoon differ from a picture?
- Which cartoon affected you the most and would make you want to do something to help ban child labor?
Week 15 2012-2013
Week 15
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Class Work
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Homework
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Monday
Academic Vocabulary Words
Synthesis
Exposition
Symbol
Allegory
Ambiguity
Irony
Verbal Irony
Situational Irony
Dramatic Irony
Biographical Knowledge
Biographical approach
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Read Irony and Ambiguity pp. 92-93
Symbolism and Allegory by John Malcolm Brinnin
Highlight and Annotate p. 94-95
Do Test Practice pp. 95
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Vocabulary Book C Unit 4
Completing the sentence
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Objective:
Students will be able to identify a work as a satire,
identify the object of ridicule of the satire, and the various techniques of
the satirist.
From ancient times satirists have shared a common aim: to expose foolishness in all its guises — vanity, hypocrisy, pedantry, idolatry, bigotry, sentimentality — and to effect reform through such exposure. |
Do pp. 100-103
Answer After you Read questions, p
100
Complete Table p. 101
Answer Questions pp. 102
a. Society and its institutions b. Types of people c. A particular person d. A place (city, state, nation) |
Vocabulary Unit Book 4
Synonyms and Antonyms
Student is to bring 3 different
satirical cartoons to class and answer the following questions:
What is being satirized in each of them-what is the object of
ridicule?
The cartoons
should/could have as targets: Individuals, Types of Individuals,
Institutions, Society, and Places.
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Wednesday
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Read prologue from Walking with the
Wind By John Lewis p. 103-110
Take Cornell Style Notes
Answer questions After You read questions p.
111-112
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Vocabulary Book C Unit 4
Choosing the Right Word
Finish After you read questions p. 11-112
Go to John Lewis Website
http://johnlewis.house.gov/John Lewis Congressional Webiste
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Thursday
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Visit John Lewis Websites
Allegory Chart
Complete In teams
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Vocabulary Book C Unit 4
Vocabulary in Context
Do pp. 114 A and B
Do a Roman Numeral Outline 5-paragraph
Constructed response Essay
The story Lewis relates in this
section has guided him in his Life. What does this story symbolize to him?
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Friday
Innocuous
Visceral
Filial
Melodramatic
Mundane
Ravenous
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Study for Book C Unit 4 Vocabulary Exam on
Monday
This is practice for the essay section your final exam. Essay- try to write this essay in 1 hour. Use a timer!
Remember to write neatly or type, skip lines or triple -space,
Save time to proof read.
Check for topic sentences, use of transition words, no sentence fragments or run-on sentences.
Remember you can practice for the vocabulary test
online at
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Targets and Vehicles of Satire
Targets
of Satire
Objective:
Students will be able to identify a work as a satire,
identify the object of ridicule of the satire, and the various techniques of the satirist.
From ancient times satirists have shared a common aim: to expose foolishness in all its guises — vanity, hypocrisy, pedantry, idolatry, bigotry, sentimentality — and to effect reform through such exposure. The many diverse forms their statements have taken reflect the origin of the word satire, which is derived from the Latin satura, meaning "dish of mixed fruits," hence a medley.
From ancient times satirists have shared a common aim: to expose foolishness in all its guises — vanity, hypocrisy, pedantry, idolatry, bigotry, sentimentality — and to effect reform through such exposure. The many diverse forms their statements have taken reflect the origin of the word satire, which is derived from the Latin satura, meaning "dish of mixed fruits," hence a medley.
a. society and its institutions
b. types of people
c. a particular person
d. a place (city, state, nation)
Vehicles
of Satire
1. art
2. music
3. poetry, prose
4. drama, films
5. cartoons / comic strips
Satire and Irony Definitions
Definitions
1. Satire: The art of criticizing a subject by
ridiculing it and evoking
toward it an attitude of amusement, contempt,
or scorn
2. Satire (in relation
to literature): A literary
technique used in
prose and poetry that combines a critical attitude with wit and humor for the purpose of
improving society
3. Juvenalian Satire: Satire, the attitude of which is bitter
and angry and
attacks sometimes viciously the vices of men
4. Horatian Satire: Satire, the attitude of which is amused
at
the foibles of mankind and merely pokes fun at them
5. Hyperbole: A figure of speech that uses
exaggeration to emphasize
strong feelings or to create a satiric effect
6. Understatement: The technique of creating emphasis by saying less
than what is actually or literally true
7. Sarcasm: a type of verbal irony often in the
form of a remark
in which the literal meaning is complimentary but the actual meaning is critical
8.
Verbal Irony: words of praise which convey criticism
and words
of criticism which convey praise
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Week 14 2012-13
Week 14
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Class Work
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Homework
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Monday
Academic Vocabulary Words
Synthesis
Exposition
Symbol
Allegory
Ambiguity
Irony
Verbal Irony
Situational Irony
Dramatic Irony
Biographical Knowledge
Biographical approach
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Veteran’s Day
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Revise 1st Draft of
essay.
Bring in typed tripled spaced.
Bring Purple Workbook to class on
Tuesday!
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Exposition
Read Pp. 65-68
Synthesizing sources
Main Idea
Supporting Evidence
Compare and Contrast
Synthesize
Draw conclusions
Connect to other sources
Recognize an author’s purpose
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Read Homecoming by Richard
Rodriguez pp. 69-70
Highlight and Annotate and Answer
After you Read Questions p. 79
Vocabulary words
Silty
Cumulative
Diminutive
Mesh
Expedite
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Wednesday
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Read Wild as It Ever Was pp. 73-76
Answer Questions page 79-80
A Night to Remember
Revise Outline Culminating Essay
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Read The repatriation
of Ishi, the Last Yahi Indian pp. 77-78
Answer After reading Questions page
80 and complete Table
Page 81 on a separate piece of
paper
Final Draft of Essay due
No Late work accepted
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Thursday
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Do Page 82 Vocabulary, reading Comprehension, and author’s
purpose essay.
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Study for Vocabulary Exam on Units
1-3
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Friday
Innocuous
Visceral
Filial
Melodramatic
Mundane
Ravenous
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Vocabulary Exam Units 1-3
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Vocabulary Book C Unit 4
Definitions
Read Adrienne Su “ Codes of Conduct”
page 83-88
Answer questions page 89-90
Do Vocabulary and Comprehension
page 91 A, B, and C only.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Essay Tips
While you write your essay, be thinking about an
answer to the following question:
- What major things do we learn about this event and the people who experienced it?
- How have you structured your essay so that it incorporates multiple perspectives?
- How is your structure similar to and different than the way Lord structured his text in A Night To Remember?
- Where do you include information from secondary sources about the event, team, and/or players/participants.eyewitnesses in event? What does this information add to the overall effectiveness of the essay?
- Where in the beginning section of your essay do you see the support for your statements regarding what you have learned about the significance of the event and why people experienced this same event differently?
- What are the similarities and differences among the three perspectives represented in your essay?
- What do the multiple perspectives represented in your essay teach us about the event being described?
- How effectively do you as a writer use multiple perspectives to convey the significance of the event?
READ YOUR DRAFT OUT LOUD
- What might you do to make this essay stronger?
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Week 13 2012-13
Week 13
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Class Work
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Homework
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Monday
Academic Vocabulary Words
Sonnet
Petrarchan Sonnet
Rhetorical Questions
Personification
Theme
Style
Tone
Diction
Connotation
Source
Argument
Claim
Opinion
Evidence
Elaboration
Credibility
Intent/Purpose
Loaded Language
Sensory images
Figurative language
Anecdotes
Emotional appeals
Logical appeals
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Expository Writing
Writing an informational
Essay about an event
MLA Format Citations
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Vocabulary Book C Unit 3 Study for Vocabulary quiz on Unit
3
Use Quizlet.com to practice
Access to Quizlet is available at LACER from 3-5 after school
daily if you don not have internet access at home.
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Allusions
Anaphora
(repetition of words at beginning of sentence)
Articulate
Enunciate
Parallelism
Metaphor
Refrain
Speech
Ballad
Rhythm
Thyme
Repetition
Folk
ballads
Irony
Dramatic
Irony
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Unit 3 Vocabulary Exam
Research for Essay
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Do: Review Units
1-3 Vocabulary Book C
Analogies
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Wednesday
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A Night to Remember
Revise Outline Culminating Essay
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Do Vocabulary Book C Review Unit 1-3 Word
Associations
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Thursday
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Do review Unit 1-3
Vocabulary in Context,
Choosing the Right Meaning, and Antonyms in pairs or trios
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Do Vocabulary Book C review Unit
1-3 Word families, and Two-word completions
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Friday
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A Night to Remember
Culminating Essay
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Vocabulary Book C Unit 1-3
Do Building with Classical Roots
and Finish Draft 1 of Expository
Essay.
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