Transcript Class agenda/power point

Senior
British Literature
Ms. McDermott Greaney
Block 5th and 6th (B)
February 22, 2016
Good morning
At the corner of your desk is a number; Please
pick up the text book with the same number.
Take out your novels. You will have ten
minutes to meet with a student in the room and
discuss your reading and compare annotations.
Entry Task
Things to consider:
• What is Richard Prestons’ writing style in the novel? How would
you describe it?
• What is the tone of this story? Reassuring or frightening? Does it
lend an air of confidence or add to the fright factor?
Hot Zone - Reflect
Cornell Notes
On a piece of notebook paper create Cornell note taking outline
Essential Questions:
How and Why did Jonathan Swift write “A Modest Proposal”
Restoration – Jonathan Swift
Read the background of Jonathan Swift (620). In the 2/3 section of notes document
4 significant facts about him.
Who is Jonathan Swift?
Read the Text Analysis: Satire (621). In the 2/3 section of notes define satire, how
does Swift use satire, and the tools of satire
What is satire? What is the purpose of satire?
As we are reading A Modest Proposal you should be looking for examples of
appeals, his position statement and his solution/call to action, and the
opposing view.
Restoration – Jonathan Swift
Hot Zone reading pages 283 - 326
Annotations w/post-it or notecards
Homework