Transcript Monday, August 18th, 2008

Monday
September 22nd, 2008
HOMEWORK STRIKE SYSTEM IN EFFECT: COMPOSITION
NOTEBOOK OUT BEFORE BELL
Agenda
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Word of the Day
PP Notes: Theme, author’s
purpose/POV
Mastering FCAT
MODEL pg. 104-105
INDIVIDUALLY ON PAPER: pg. 107-113
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Answer only short/extended response
questions
Objective(s):
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Identify theme and
author’s purpose by
taking notes in
composition
notebook.
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Analyze selected
benchmarks by
answering questions
in Mastering FCAT.
Word of the Day, 9/22
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• Redundant
– Excessive
– Unnecessarily repetitious
Theme
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• The theme of a work (fiction/non-fiction) is
how it relates to “the human condition.”
– Human life
– Human behavior
– Growing up
– Love/relationships
How to analyze theme
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• Ask yourself some questions of the:
– Title: does it point to truth’s about life?
– Characters:
• does the main character realize something at the
end that they didn’t know in the beginning?
• do any characters make any important statements
about life?
• EXAMPLE: FOREST GUMP
“Two Kinds”
Take a look at Jing-Mei …
• BEFORE
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• Doesn’t like mother
• Complains a lot
• Plays “Pleading Child”
AFTER
Author’s Purpose
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• Is the goal or aim of the writer writing
his/her work
• If you can recognize the TYPE of writing, the
PURPOSE can be identified.
Author’s Purpose
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• Type
Purpose
• NARRATIVE to tell a story
• EXPOSITORY to explain or present
information.
• PERSUASIVE to express an opinion;
change the way a reader
thinks/feels
Author’s POV
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• Before we looked at character POV (people
who NARRATE the story!)
• Now we must look to Author POV (people
who write the story)
Author’s POV
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• Fiction (short stories/novels)
– Author uses characters to express his/her
attitudes about subjects.
• Non-Fiction (newspaper/biographies)
– Author’s POV is neutral (unbiased)
• Persuasive (editorials/advertisements)
– Author directly/indirectly states their opinion
about subjects with the hope of
convincing/persuading the reader
Mastering FCAT: pg. 104
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Mastering FCAT: pg. 107-113
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• Answer questions on a separate sheet of
paper, hand in at end of class.
• Answer ONLY short/extended responses
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