Announcement: **** If you want to use your mastery learning on anything that has been graded you can select one thing and make sure it is submitted to me through email by 10:20am on Tuesday December 12th. I will not grade or accept anything past that time.
Introductions examples: I have added the slide of introduction examples. These are actual examples from your alls writing. I would like you to notice how the first example does not clearly state the tone and the rhetorical devices are absent. Example 2 does a great job of being clear about the tone (though not necessarily accurate) and moving on. Example 3 has style and voice while they are still stating the tone accurately and giving the rhetorical devices that help demonstrate that tone.
Questions for McTeague
Please look at line 4 and look up the word “charlatan”
Why does the narrator use this word? Do you believe that McTeague has truly given up his charlatan ways? What evidence do you have for that or not?
“Polk street called him ‘doctor’ and spoke of his enormous strength” (9-11). Why is the word doctor be in quotations (more than one reason)? Then what qualities would be expect or want out of their dentist/doctor and how does “enormous strength” support or violate that expectation.
Find other moments of characterizations and details that either support or conflict with what you would expect of a dentist/doctor. Include the line number
Setting: go to line 30-43 and read about the space and what is in the office. First, describe on your own what you see when into your own dentist or what you would expect from a dentist. What details support or do not support that vision of a dentist office? How does that demonstrate how the narrator feels about McTeague.
Line 45-50 “Alens Practical Dentistry” is similar to today’s “Dentists for Dummies” how does this detail of the book convey the narrators attitude (you can use the handout I left with Mr. Pacas)
McTeague’s advertisement highlights “gas given” why would this trouble you if your dentist’s advertisement stated “laughing gas given”?
How does the last line make clear his attitude?
Home work:
Due Tuesday: Please read the introduction of Native Son and make sure you take notes on what stood out to you and to figure out why Richard Wright may have written this book.
Due Thursday 1. You are to write a one-page reflection on the process of ranking who is most to blame. You can explore how you decided your ranking. What was it like discussing it with your partner vs. your group? What was effective in discussion? Who was actually most to blame? Did the larger group make the right decision? What was most frustrating>
Please make sure it is typed because we will be submitting onling
2. Write half a page (double-spaced) where you ruminate on who or what each character represents in the real world. Please do not look anything up. This can all be on the same document .