1. Figurative Language: #4 Vocab Pic Quiz 9 – some of 2nd and all of 3rd
Agenda (for me)
Figurative Language: #4
Vocab Pic Quiz 9 – some of 2nd and all of 3rd
Senior Project Presentations (1-2)
ATSS – Discuss remainder of book
SB Rhetorical Analysis 2.16 – Nobel Prize speeches
HW: finish the SB 2.16 reading

2. Reminders – 4-16-18 Upcoming www.Turnitin.com
Unit Socratic Seminar – Wednesday in class 4/18
Research Paper – due Wednesday, 4/18 by 11:59 PM via Turnitin
No abstract required!
ATSS/Rhetoric Unit Test – Thursday 4/19 (study guide will be posted tonight)
Photo Essays – Monday, 4/23 (in Google Drive) / Presentations Mon (4/23) & Tues (4/24)
2nd Block Class ID: Password: spruill2
3rd Block Class ID: Password: spruill3
**Need a copy of Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell) by April 23! First reading will be due 4/25!

3. Voice Lesson: Figurative Language #4
Eusebio talks in a hoarse whisper that smells of tobacco, one hand on Mama’s shoulder, one hand grasping my T-shirt. He’s like a sheepdog, and we are the sheep. He makes us go in little groups, watching the road, listening.
-- Frances Temple, Grab Hands and Run
Write About It:
Find one simile and one metaphor in the passage, and identify the literal and figurative terms.
Simile: Literal Term: Figurative Term:
Metaphor: Literal Term: Figurative Term:
What is communicated through the use of the simile and metaphor? (meaning in passage)
He’s like a sheepdog/Lit Term: he/Fig term: sheepdog
We are the sheep / Lit Term: we / Fig Term: sheep
Expresses that Eusebio is loyal, protective, guiding, able to keep many people going in the same direction
The people are dependent, innocent, helpless
Power of figurative language to bring multiple meanings sharply and succinctly into writing

4. ATSS Discussion How are Mariam and Laila similar? different?
Do you think Laila and Tariq can be happy? Why or why not?
Mariam refuses to see visitors while she is imprisoned, and she calls no witnesses at her trial. Why does she make these decisions?
The phrase “a thousand splendid suns,” from the poem by Saib-e-Tabrizi, is quoted in the novel – once as Laila’s family prepares to leave Kabul, and again when she decides to return there from Pakistan. It is also echoed in one of the final lines: “Miriam is in Laila’s own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.” Discuss the thematic significance of this phrase.
At several points in the story, Mariam and Laila pass themselves off as mother and daughter. What is the symbolic importance of this? In what ways is Mariam’s and Laila’s relationship with each other informed by their relationships with their own mothers?

5. Vocab Pic Quiz 9
If already finished, begin work on Nobel Prize Speeches assignment

6. Rhetorical Analysis
Read Solzhenitzyn’s One Word of Truth Outweights the World (p )
1st Read – annotate and mark for his argument, evidence, and reasoning. Does he present a counterclaim?
2nd Read – Answer questions 1-3 p. 205
Read Wiesel’s Hope, Despair, and Memory (p )
2nd Read – Answer questions 4-6 (p. 208)
Begin prepping for Wednesday’s Socratic Seminar (see below for topics) – you can start prepping by using the Working from the Text section and Pre-seminar Questions (p. 209)