Allusions

For Tuesday-
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Content requirements

1. Brief history of the expression.  
2. Explain the context and connotation of how/ when it is most effective to use
3. Find two professional examples.

5/6   and 10

Reviews Day 1! Steal this sentence

For Friday:

• Via Classroom- Write a 230+ word review of (movie/album-song/restaurant/tv episode/etc) Can be +/-.
•  I want you to steal a sentence from one of the AV Club reviews and make it yours with your word choice. Highlight it.
• Continue layer examples of participial/appositive/prepositional/adjective/adverbial as the opportunity arises in your critique.  

Round 3- We're All Water...

James Franco Grammie Round 2 Winners-

Winner 5/6

Able to unmask the reality of his hopeless destiny with a true love and too apprehensive to utter even a word to another human being, he finds the only person able to ever fulfill his infatuations is his own self. Hypnotized by his appearance, his longing for seduction grows with every stare at himself. He tries to amuse himself on a conversation of passion with the mirrored image but finds his only satisfaction can be  Kirsten!

Winner 10-

Tremors rippled through his core, failing to breach the surface of his countenance. Once more, he gazes into the glass only to find cold isolation: he is utterly alone. The corners of his mouth suddenly reach upward, shattering any reluctance. As he attempts to quiet anxiety he reaches in for the first kiss, a gentle caress. Closing his eyes, he imagines meeting soft, warm, kind flesh but instead is greeted by glass-- Jenna!

1. What do you see?
2. What do you hear?
3. How do you describe the events of this performance from start to finish?
4. What extended metaphor might capture the feel of this performance?

Yoko Ono - We're All Water Lyrics | MetroLyrics 

There may not be much difference
Between Chairman Mao and Richard Nixon
If we strip them naked
There may not be much difference
Between Marilyn Monroe and Lenny Bruce
If we check their coffins

There may not be much difference
Between White House and Hall of People
If we count their windows
There may not be much difference
Between Raquel Welsh and Jerry Rubin
If we hear their heartbeat

We're all water from different rivers
That's why it's so easy to meet
We're all water in this vast, vast ocean
Someday we'll evaporate together

There may not be much difference
Between Eldridge Cleaver and Queen of England
If we bottle their tears
There may not be much difference
Between Manson and the Pope
If we press their smile

There may not be much difference
Between Rockefeller and you
If we hear you sing
There may not be much difference
Between you and me
If we show our dreams

We're all water from different rivers
That's why it's so easy to meet
We're all water in this vast, vast ocean
Someday we'll evaporate together

What's the difference?
What's the difference?

There's no difference
There's no difference
What's the difference?

What's the difference?


For this memorable performance by Yoko Ono-
Let's attempt to capture 2 parts:
A) Extend a metaphor of comparison
B) Use participial, appositive, prepositional, adjective, and adverbial clauses (See Sentence Spice)

What is an antithesis?

Monday! Time to draft the essay

For Tuesday:

• Today in class you will select the prompt for your essay.  You may use the prompt worthy quote you posted on Tricider but I would like you to take time to see what your classmates posted in both periods 5/6 and 10.
• After you finalized your decision, the essay doc is posted via Classroom.  Follow my sample here but we are modeling how to write a successful Q3, only this time you have 2 full days to outline and draft it.  This means initially you will make an outline composed of recently covered texts as well as other forms of varied support.  
• What you will need to demonstrate in this essay is a deliberate introduction that features sentence variety and successful handling of prompt.  Your support will be be patiently developed, varied, and also pay attention to syntax when opportunity exists.

#wegoreads @ItsCaptOz pic.twitter.com/lOVaVEhaKh

— Brian Turnbaugh (@wegotwits) July 16, 2015

From yesterday's opinion section in Trib (use of anaphora)

I, like Martin Luther King Jr., still have the audacity to believe that, "peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive good will proclaim the rule of the land. "And the lion and the lamb shall lie down together and every man shall sit under his own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid." I still believe that "We shall overcome!"

I believe, as the Tribune series proclaimed in its closing paragraph, that every person deserves the "chance to be productive citizens participating in the American dream."

Or from conservative Opinion writer Ross Douthat (use of parallel structure with rhetorical question)

The fed-up columnists have reasonable questions for Trump-supporting Republicans. How can fiscal conservatives support a single-payer-praising crony capitalist? How can social conservatives support a thrice-married sybarite? How can anyone who mocked the celebrity element in Obama’s 2008 campaign embrace the host of Celebrity Apprentice?

or from liberal Opinion writer Gail Collins (effective use of : and periodic finish.)

If an elected official wants to try to drive Planned Parenthood out of business, there are two honest options: Announce that first you’re going to invest a ton of new taxpayer money in creating real substitutes, or shrug your shoulders and tell the world that you’re fine with cutting off health services to some of your neediest constituents.

Prompt Spotting...

For Monday-

1. Create the Snagit screen capture video of your ITW passages.  Remember this is a casual conversation of you linking the patterns of your evidence.  This should not take longer than 15 minutes.  Post Snagit link(s) to Classroom question-only I can see it.
2. Post the most prompt-worthy quote or passage from any of our readings.  This may be the prompt you choose to defend/challenge/ or qualify for the essay on Wednesday.  Post this... 5/6 and 10
3. If you choose to start collecting ideas/evidence...use the ITW Notes posted via Classroom.  

Listen to this fascinating story from Radiolab as a connection to Harris essay.

These opening paragraphs to the LA Times feature on refugees...

The gray rubber dinghy that carries Huda Malak, pregnant with her first child, sags to sea level as it approaches Lesbos. The overloaded raft has been taking on water since it launched from a crag off the Turkish shore, about six miles away.

The 18 Syrians on board desperately try to bail water from the sinking craft. Weight, they need to shed weight. They start jettisoning backpacks that hold most everything they still own. A trip that should have taken 45 minutes has lasted double that, and they are still a mile from the Greek island.

Suddenly, Malak’s husband, Tarek Sheikh, stands up.

“I’m doing this to save you, our child, and everyone on board,” Sheikh tells her.

Then he jumps overboard.

His weight makes the difference, and the raft chugs toward land as Malak looks back to where her husband disappeared into the Aegean.

Should we optimize our design?

For Friday:

• Read/annotate Sam Harris Edge Response Optimizing our Design (Posted via Classroom)
• Insert 4 comments observing persuasion/effect Harris makes to move reader closer to his thesis
• Insert 3 comments of personal reaction (agree/disagree/maybe) and briefly explain why...
• Defend, Challenge, or Qualify Harris claim of the need to "optimize our design." (1 paragraph minimum- complete on Harris doc & turn in)

        1) Adverbial conjunction 
        2) Evidence (in absence of available logos), use pathos 
        3)Two forms of sentence variety(See sentence spice)



Scariest Movie of the year?

Enjoy the Silence

You will be busy today:

• Briefly share your connections from your Style/ Characterization/ Theme within your groups.
• Now using your Snagit screencapture, I want you to thread the connections so I can hear how you recognize the patterns of your choices.  Hopefully you did not sling whatever first caught your eye and you indeed cultivated appropriate evidence that reveals patterns.  This will be obvious in your verbal defense in the screen capture discussion.  This is a casual discussion of your observations.  I am the only person who will hear it and if you want to post three separate videos instead of ones longer one, no worries.  What I want to hear is solid connection among the passages.  Finish by SUNDAY by posting the link(s) to question on Classroom.  
• Annotate the Emerson excerpt from Self Reliance (via Classroom)