Monday, October 18, 2010

Do Now: Review these definitions of figurative language: simile, metaphor, personification. Copy the definitions in your notebook under vocabulary. (5 minutes)

Simile :A comparison using “like” or “as.”

The wolf stood still as a statue.

Metaphor : The author writes that an object or person “is” or “was” another thing.

During fall, the tree on my block is a golden umbrella. 

Personification: The author gives human qualities to an animal or object.

The Washington Monument touched the sky.

Evidence Based Writing Revisited. 

1. Using the rubric, score the sample on the board.

2. Score your response. State the reasons for the score. Resubmit.

The Crucible: Act 2 -

1. Review the Proctors' marriage with these quotations: Are they metaphors?

It's winter in here yet.

I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

2. Mary Warren is an official of the court. P. 28 -30. Clips from the movie illustrate the hysteria!

Thirty-nine people have been arrested. Mary sews a doll ( poppet ) for Elizabeth. Elizabeth has been accused, but Mary has the charge dismissed. Goody Osburn will hang. Sarah Good will not hang; she has confessed and she's pregnant!

Important quotations:

I made a gift for you today. I had to sit long hours in a chair, and passed the time with sewing.

Oh, the noose, the noose is up.

Why does she call my name...I am no Goody Good who sleeps in ditches, nor Osburn, drunk and half-witted. She'd dare not call out such a farmer's wife but there be monstrous profit in it.

Homework: You've seen and read the beginnings of hysteria in Salem. Who is to blame? The girls? The judges. The townspeople? All of them?  Write your response with at least three reasons for your opinion. This will be turned in tomorrow. (50 points)