Just wanted to let parents know what we have been learning now that we've moved past summer reading, get to know yous, and grammar reviews. Take a peek...
Unit One: Personal Narratives – Memoir and Autobiography
Contemporary texts: excerpts from
A Million Little Pieces
Life in Prison
Stick Figure
A Child Called It
Classic texts: excerpts from
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (p. 168)
A Narrative of the Captivity (old book 40)
Essential Questions:
How does literature shape or reflect society?
How can people use their personal stories to change the opinions of society in terms of a certain issue?
How does society shape its individual members (Equiano? Rowlandson?)
SC Standards:
E3-1.2 Evaluate impact of point of view
E3-2.1 theses within informational texts
E3-1.5 Analyze author’s craft (writing style)
E3-1.7 Evaluate author’s use of genre to convey a theme
E3-2.3 Analyze informational texts for author bias
E3-3.2 Analyze meaning of words using Greek and Latin roots and affixes (vocabulary)
E3-4 Conventions of grammar – nouns, verbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions
E3-4 Mechanics of editing – Comma usage!!!
Important Literary Terminology:
Slave narrative – book pg. 168
Point of view – handout pg. 6
Author’s purpose
Imagery, descriptive language - handout pg. 4
Memoir – handout
Diction – handout pg. 3
Allusion – handout pg. 1
Voice – handout
Tone – handout
Author bias – handout pg. 2
Pay attention to writing style:
Equiano: descriptive imagery, long sentences, diction (word choice)
Rowlandson: Biblical allusions, imagery, diction
***You will be expected to recreate (emulate) some aspect of their writing style in your own. For example, you may include an allusion to something in popular culture, use a specific dialect in terms of diction, or use imagery or long sentences in your personal narrative.
Minor writing: We will write a small literary analysis of one of the above classics. (1 page)
Major Writing: You will write a personal narrative/memoir about an event in your life. (2 pages)
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