Summary Versus Analysis

Visit the links tonight to review how to differentiate summary from analysis:
https://www.fitchburgstate.edu/uploads/files/ExpandingHorizons/SUMMARYvsANALYSIS.pdf
and second: http://www.westga.edu/~bjames/Analysis%20vs.%20summary%20doc.pdf

H. English Ten Period 5

Text of the week for SOAPS Analysis
Nikki Rosa by Nikki Giovanni. Read, listen and analyze the poem. Then complete your SOAPS and precis based on the poem. Also create 3 questions based on the poem.

Evening

Review Test

H. English Ten period 5

1. Be sure you have finished your research of the hijab, by visiting the sources that have been hyperlinked.  You only need to complete ONE Reflective Journal, although you are visiting 4 sources.  You complete ONE reflective Journal in which you combine information from the other sources.

H. Expository Composition Period 6 Homework

1. Read Article of the Week: What Non-Black People of Color Owe African-Americans. Complete a SOAPS sheet and read, highlight and annotate the article.  Be prepared to discuss the article in at least two small groups.
2. Read, listen, review EACH of the following materials regarding THESIS statements. Jot down notes as you see fit.
https://depts.gpc.edu/gpcltc/handouts/communications/literarythesis.pdf
Literacy Analysis Thesis Statement
Crafting A Literary Thesis

H. Expository Composition period 6

Following is the rough draft of an opening paragraph for an essay on a theme. read the paragraph and then answer the questions that you were unable to answer in class:

In The Three Theban Plays, more commonly known as Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, a  subtle universal theme lays the foundation for the tragedy that dogs Oedipus and his entire biological line.  Most readers attend to  the horrific details the oracle predicts: that Oedipus was doomed to kill his father and marry his mother.  No matter how heinous those crimes, the fault of the story neither lies in blind Oedipus doing exactly what the Oracle predicted nor his denial of it. Rather the tragedy lies in the plot Lauis and his wife Jocasta hatch to outsmart the Gods, fate, destiny, in the first place.  Although man is knowing, he fashions “words and stagecraft too” words are tamed in “the net of his mind”. Nevertheless, pleads  the chorus, man is a finite being, and although he exerts much control over his being, ultimately there are many “things” he cant not control, order, escape or outwit.  The true tragedy lies in thinking we can do so. 

Questions: Write out the sentences that appear to make claims or express opinions. 

2. Which sentences appears to be the thesis statement?  3.  What does the paragraph do well and in what areas is attention needed? 4. Based on the opening paragraph, we would expect the next paragraph to.......

Prologue of the Invisible Man

Today, we will begin our new unit by reading the Prologue of the Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
After reading it once, listen to it here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdGdtRmF6J98eJiv0UfDFYTFRBPk7kKWh
Next, we will answer text dependent questions found here:

Text Dependent Questions—Prologue to The Invisible Man

1.      In what ways are you invisible? List was you are invisible to peers, teachers, people…..

2.      Why does the author need to clarify that he isn’t a spook?

3.      Why might people refuse to see someone?

4.      Why would someone say, “I might even be said to possess a mind?”

5.      What does it mean to be seen?

6.      How might it feel to be “unseen”? List four adjectives that might describe the feeling.

7.      Whose fault is it that the narrator is invisible? Defend your response with a sentences or evidence taken from the text.

8.      What can we infer about the blond man who “still uttered insults though his lips were frothy with blood”?

9.      Explain the irony of the Daily News reporting of the incident.

10.  Why might rates for electricity been so expensive for the narrator?

11.  Describe the invisible man’s “hole.”  What items in or aspects of his hole might be metaphoric and what might they mean?

12.  Why does the narrator label himself “Jack the Bear” and how does this idea of his current existence give significance to the rest of his narrative?

13.  Find as many oxymorons or paradoxes as you can in the prologue.  Consider especially the fact that the Invisible Man needs light, as well as his statement that Broadway and the Empire State Building are “the darkest spots in our culture.”  What is the meaning and/or significance of each paradox that you have identified?  (If you struggle to interpret the individual paradoxes, try to discuss the overall significance of paradox in the prologue.)

14.  What role does paradox in general play in the invisible man’s existence?

15.  Is the invisible man’s mode of existence heroic?  Why or why not?