5/18/15 READ: Finish up through chapter 14 for tomorrow (and the guide questions) HW: 1.Complete the class work (chapters guide questions) – for Wednesday. 2.Finish vocabulary unit 12 for Thursday *** Unit 11 vocabulary quiz make ups! (it’s a speed quiz – you have 3 minutes to finish the quiz)

5/19/15 READ: Finish up through chapter 14 for tomorrow (and the guide questions) HW: 1.Complete the class work (chapters guide questions) – for tomorrow. 2.Finish vocabulary unit 12 for Thursday

5/20/15 TEST Chapters 1-14 TEST RULES: 1.You may work with ONLY one partner – write your partner’s name on your test. 2.You may use your books (no guide questions, no devices, NO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES). 3.Both partners must submit the test at the same time. HW: Finish vocabulary unit 12 for Thursday

5/21/15 Task: Rhetorical Analysis on VOICE DO NOW: SPEED QUIZ!!!!!!!!!! HW: Vocabulary Unit TEST next week THURSDAY, MAY 28 th on Units Vocabulary books will be collected and checked.

The rest of the year: Tuesday – Finish rhetorical analysis (TCOW) Wednesday – POST TEST Thursday – Unit Test on vocabulary units Friday – Mini research project Monday – Finish mini research project Tuesday – Brief review for the (skills based) final Wednesday – Final Day 1 Thursday – Final Day 2 Friday – Spelling? Monday – Creative writing project Tuesday – Creative writing project Wednesday – Creative writing project Thursday – Creative writing project Friday – Creative writing project

Voice is… An author’s distinctive use of language to express his or her persona. Another way of describing voice is that it is the narrator’s personality as established through the choices they make in his/her writing. OR Diction + Syntax + Imagery + Other Literary Devices = Voice (author’s personality)

Analyzing Voice in Literature

DICTION (word choice) is the foundation of voice and contributes to all of its elements DETAIL (facts, observations, and incidents) is used to develop a topic, shaping and seasoning voice IMAGERY (verbal representation of sense experience) brings the immediacy of sensory experience to writing and gives voice a distinctive quality SYNTAX (grammatical sentence structure) controls verbal pacing and focus TONE (expression of attitude) gives voice its distinctive personality

Some of you may be wondering what the difference is between voice and tone. You could consider tone a subset of voice. If voice is the personality of a story, then tone is the mood. Although lots of writers could describe their voice as funny, the mood of their individual pieces might be dark or biting or silly or sarcastic.

TASK – Rhetorical analysis: How does the writing demonstrate the difference between the voice of Ruth and the voice of James? Find a passage in any of the alternating chapters that epitomizes the voice of Ruth and then again for the voice of James. How are they different? Be sure to: – Establish a claim about Ruth and James’ voices. James’ voice is _________. Ruth’s voice is __________. – For both Ruth and James, find a passage that exemplifies their voices. – Within the passage, find examples of diction, imagery, syntax, detail, tone and any other rhetorical devices that help to develop each person’s voice. – Explain how the rhetorical devices develop each person’s voice.

“Sometimes without conscious realization, our thoughts, our faith, out interests are entered into the past. We talk about other times, other places, other persons, and lose our living hold on the present. Sometimes we think if we could just go back in time we would be happy. But anyone who attempts to reenter the past is sure to be disappointed. Anyone who has ever revisited the place of his birth after years of absence is shocked by the differences between the way the place actually is, and the way he has remembered it. He may walk along old familiar streets and roads, but he is a stranger in a strange land. He has thought of this place as home, but he finds he is no longer here even in spirit. He has gone onto a new and different life, and in thinking longingly of the past, he has been giving thought and interest to something that no longer really exists.”