1. Write into the day 19 September 2018
You’ll need paper for notes today.
Write into the day 19 September 2018
We’re almost a quarter of the way through the year.
What have you done to actively achieve the goals you have for Junior year? What do you still need to do? What do you need help with?

2. Tentative Schedule
Wednesday, 19 September: Begin identifying vs analyzing unit
Thursday, 20 September: Commercial Analysis work with partner
Friday, 21 September: Library day to go over research sources
Monday, 24 September: MCM
Tuesday, 25 September: Commercial analysis work with partner
Wednesday, 26 September: Commercial Presentation
Thursday, 27 September: Commercial Presentation
Friday, 28 September: Receive Definition paper back.

3. Essential Questions for all Analysis
What’s the writer’s purpose?
What strategies does the writer use to achieve that purpose and WHY?
Write these questions in big, purposeful letters on your notes. 

4. Strategies
Not necessarily metonymy or synecdoche, even though it's impressive if you know what these are. 
Strategies = words and details
What words and details does the writer use to get the point across and why? 
Identify the important words and details in the text, then explain the effect— that’s the analysis part.

5. Strategies and analysis: In sports
Let's watch the game!
Your job: focus on what they hear from the announcers
What two categories does their commentary fall under?

6. Strategies and Analysis: In Sports

7. Strategies and analysis: In sports
The Play-by-Play
The Color Commentary
Play-by-Play = identifying the moves/what's happening in the text
Color Commentary = analysis...Why are they doing it? What effect does it have on the purpose or the audience?

8. Strategies and Analysis: Commercials
Task: Watch the commercial and identify SOAPSTone
Speaker
Occasion
Audience
Purpose
Subject
Tone

9. Strategies and Analysis: Commercials

10. Homework Read LOC Chapter 2 Pgs. 39-48
Do the activity for Ellison's essay. The activity is on pgs
Typed or hand written. Create questions different than the list provided for you on pg. 47. 

11. Talk into the Day 20 September 2018
Share and answer the questions you wrote for homework with your team.
Discuss how you could apply these same kinds of questions to create color commentary for a commercial.

12. Tentative Schedule
Thursday, 20 September: Commercial Analysis work with partner
Friday, 21 September: Library day to go over research sources
Monday, 24 September: MCM
Tuesday, 25 September: Commercial analysis work with partner
Wednesday, 26 September: Commercial Presentation
Thursday, 27 September: Commercial Presentation
Friday, 28 September: Receive Definition paper back.

13. Sample Play-by-Play and color commentary

14. Strategies and analysis: in commercials
Task:
Watch the commercial once
Get in pairs and create the play by play and color commentary in a chart that looks like this:
Time stamp
Play-by-Play
Color Commentary
0:10-0:15
What happened
Why did it happen? How does it progress the commercial's purpose? How does it effect the audience? Why does it work?
0:15-0:20
Etc.

15. Strategies and Analysis: Commercials

16. Homework Read LOC Ch. 2 Pgs. 48-58
Pay special attention to the chart’s “Paraphrase or Summarize” and “Effect or Function” sections.
Do the activity for Virginia Woolf’s “Death of a Moth” on pg. 56.
Answer all of the questions listed (What effect is Woolf striving for? How does she create that effect? How does the effect serve the purpose of her writing?); do not develop a thesis or an outline.

17. MCM
24 September 2018

18. Write into the day 25 September 2018