1. Pick-up sheet from table.
Note your homework for the weekend. Due Monday/Tuesday is the following:
Typed interpretation of “The Log Goblin”
Annotations and summary to Log Goblin
Interpretation and summary of There Will Come Soft Rains
Have out your notebook
Have out “The Pedestrian”
Have out highlighters

2. Bellwork 17 August 2018 In your notebook, answer the following:
How would you describe your style? Think clothing, hair, accessories, etc. How does this reflect your attitude and who you are?

3. Reading for Style Why was the text created in the way it was?
Style=the writer’s voice
For sale: baby shoes, never worn. –Ernest Hemingway

4. Reading for Style
Tone

5. What is the tone? What words tell you that this is the author’s attitude?
“In the City of the Night”
John Gould Fletcher
“The Tropics of New York”
Claude McKay
Towards the end of night Life swelters in its gore, The roaring wheels run down, The flames of the gas no more Stab at the iron sky In hissing mockery: And the city takes such rest As its torn nerves know best.
Bananas ripe and green, and ginger root Cocoa in pods and alligator pears, And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit, Fit for the highest prize at parish fairs, Sat in the window, bringing memories Of fruit-trees laden by low0singing rills, And dewy dawns, and mystical skies In benediction over the nun-like hills.

6. I deserve to be angry. I deserve to survey the system that thrusts so many officers and black and brown people into contact in the first place, and be disgusted. I deserve to examine the biases that are exposed in officer/citizen encounters, and be disgusted. I deserve to take account of an utterly racially biased criminal justice system, and be disgusted… My fingers ache as I type this. I want to pound this keyboard. I want to delete until all the characters disappear, to make the pain of it simply vanish behind a retreating cursor, but it’s just not that easy. These words are all I have left. This agony pouring out of me onto the screen is all I have…. I am exhausted. I am repulsed. I am over all the circular dialogue. But I don’t know precisely where that leaves me other than in a hurt and festering place.

7. Elements of Style Reading for style=close reading
Why did the writer make this specific choice?

8. Elements of Style Diction
Connotation
Denotation
Formal
Informal
TIP: give a word to describe an author’s diction. All author’s use diction, so try to be specific.

9. “America” by Allen Ginsberg
America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, I can’t stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? I don’t feel good don’t bother me. I won’t write my poem till I’m in my right mind. America when will you be angelic? When will you take off your clothes? When will you look at yourself through the grave? When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites? America why are your libraries full of tears?
“America” by Allen Ginsberg

10. Elements of Style Syntax How words are arranged Rhythm Emphasis
Repetition
Sentence Variety
Sentence types: questions, exclamatory sentences, declarative sentences, imperative sentences

11. Elements of Style Figurative Language Simile Hyperbole Metaphor
Allusion

12. Elements of Style
Imagery
Appeal to senses
Literal or figurative

13. “The Daffodils” by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats high o’ver vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in a sprightly dance.
“The Daffodils” by William Wordsworth

14. Style The point is not to identify like a treasure hunt.
THINK—how does the style reinforce the meaning of the whole or the author’s attitude?

15. Closure “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury
What about the style of the story reflects Bradbury’s attitude towards the rise of technology? Focus on diction, syntax, imagery and figurative language.