Periods 2, 4, 6, and 7
1. Primary and secondary sources PPT
2. Revisit Satire
3. What is a Persuasive Essay (persuasion)
What techniques would you use to persuade your friends, parents, teachers, grandparents,
4. “A Modest Proposal”
5. Horatian (Includes a tinge more humor) vs. Juvenalian Satire (touches deep nerves in the reader, playing on majoring emotions- -if there is humor is dark or black humor or irony)
6. Pop culture: Rap, Hip Hop use satire
Hw: Finish The Giver by Tuesday, November 15.; Past, Present, and Future utopia (Thursday)
Tuesday
1. Continue “A Modest Proposal
2. What persuasive elements are used by the author?
3. Tone, voice, diction
4. Background on “A Modest Proposal” and questions
5. Primary and secondary sources checkup
5. Primary and secondary sources checkup
Hw: Finish Swift assignment due Wed.; Utopia research Thursday
Wednesday
1. Satirical Persuasive Essay (Select a social issue that needs addressing, but you have to approach it in such a way that the solution, like Swift, is irrational and out there.
2. Eugenics in N.C. (SOAPSTONE)
HW: SOAPSTONE; Utopia research; finish novel; I.R. assignmnet 11/15
HW: SOAPSTONE; Utopia research; finish novel; I.R. assignmnet 11/15
Thursday
1.Persuasive Essay due Tuesday (draft)
2. Utopia groups formed
Hw: essay draft
Friday
NO School
5th period
Monday
Persuasive techniques
“Letter to Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Banneker”
Primary and secondary source review
Hw: TOAT finish the novel by Thursday
Tuesday
Continue Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson
Grammar
Hw: Writing piece
Wednesday
Grammar
Persuasive writing: What are the characteristics?
"Address: First Women's Rights Convention"
Discussion questions:
Satire Intro.
Persuasive writing: What are the characteristics?
"Address: First Women's Rights Convention"
Discussion questions:
Satire Intro.
Hw: Reading in TOAT due tomorrow; What would life be life if no one had fought for women? (1 page)
Thursday
Women's Rights continued
Satire Intro
Women's Rights continued
Satire Intro
Finish persuasive pieces in textbook
Begin Persuasive Essay in a day
Discuss TOAT
Hw: What did you find interesting in Elizabeth Stanton's address? Why do you think she reacted that way? (1 page) due Monday
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