Please copy the following chart into your notes leaving room to write down some notes on Chapter 15 "Icarus"

Complacency (happy in your position unaware that certain dangers may exist)	Textual evidence to support	Explanation/Analysis of how it shows a relation to Icarus
Failed ambition (not reaching a goal)
Hubris (too much pride; arrogance in your abilities)

Quick Write #6:Start with reading pg. 208-top of 212

By the end of class today, you should have the following assignments finished:
1. Questions #1-8 on worksheet #6 (9 and 10 will be bonus questions)
2. Quick Write #6

Quick Write #6: Analyze how style and content contribute to the power and beauty of Ch. 12

style- rhetorical devices (characterization, diction (word choice), conflict, setting, metaphor, symbolism, allusion)
content-what happens in the plot during this section

power and beauty-- How does it help him get his point across? How does it make the section memorable (lasting images or information)? How does it help strengthen the central ideas expressed (racism, identity, oppression, etc.)?

 (TAG/Thesis)  In The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley, the author uses style and content to add power and beauty to Ch. 12. (Reason) This is because the rhetorical devices of __________ and _______ and the content about ______________ make it memorable to the reader.

(Don't start the body paragraph with "a quote that proves this to be true is"--Use a topic sentence: tells the reader what the paragraph is about--keep it in order of how you laid it out in the intro (in the example above the writer used rhetorical devices first"

(E/E)The author uses the rhetorical device metaphor to add power to chapter 12. On page ___ he states, "______________________". This metaphor adds power to the chapter because________.
He also uses imagery in describing ________________ when he states, "__________ ". This adds power to the chapter because_____________________.

(E/E) The author uses specific content in his writing to add power and beauty as well. He gives a description of slavery on page _____ as it states, "_______________________________." This information adds power to the chapter because_________________.

(S) Chapter 12 is an important chapter in the book because _______________________.

Today's reading and quiz..

Ideas for content:

• To highlight Malcolm X’s early experiences speaking to Nation of Islam followers,
• the author includes quotations of the content from Malcolm X’s lectures about the horrors of slavery. 
• The quotations the author includes focus on the degrading and harmful effects of the slave masters’ rape of African-American women.

We will start p. 200 and stop top of 205.

Quiz:
Read from the first full paragraph on page 205 (Today, when thousands of Muslims and others…” to the top of page 208 (“3604 South Wayne Road, Wayne, Michigan”) and use this section of the reading to answer the questions below

When you are finished with the quiz, make sure questions #1-8 on worksheet #6 are complete

Remember, college essays are due no later than Friday!!!

Today we will:
1. Take the following notes in red:

Quick Write #6: Analyze how style and content contribute to the power and beauty of Ch. 12

style- rhetorical devices (characterization, diction (word choice), conflict, setting)
content-what happens in the plot during this section

power and beauty-- How does it help him get his point across? How does it make the section memorable (lasting images or information)? How does it help strengthen the central ideas expressed (racism, identity, oppression, etc.)?

2. Read pages 196-top of 200 (Chapter 12 "Savior")

3. Questions 1-5 worksheet #6 (you downloaded it with worksheet 5 if not here is the link again)

4. Watch movie*

Agenda for Thursday! Note: For those people who were absent on this day--make sure get the STEAL notes from a friend--they are not available on the blog

1. Take your STEAL notes
2. Finish the chapter reading p.189-194
3. Work on QW #5

Quick Write Help:

T—In The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley, Malcolm develops more during the course of Chapter 11. (R-)This is mostly because going to prison is a major turning point in his life.

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E—

E*--

S—

When you come in start -IMMEDIATELY--by finishing #1-5 from yesterday: we will start on page 182 in about 5-10 minutes

Today we will:

• Read the following pages: 

                  182-183 from "Mr. Muhammad, to whom I was writing daily," to "sometimes as much as                                               fifteen hours a day"
                 

                                             skip ahead

                  185-87 from "Two other areas of experience" to "of that black convict's lifelong                                                          experience"

• Finish questions #6-10

• Begin our STEAL notes for the next Quick Write (#5)--we will work on this tomorrow after finishing the chapter (if there is time available)

Note: Tomorrow we will work on the notes above if we run out of time and work on writing QW #5---(on the back of Worksheet #5).

Friday--College Essay Writer's Workshop----come prepared!!!!!

Today's Agenda: Preparing for Friday and Quiz #3

1. Start a Word Document for your college essay/MLA Heading
(See the MLA Sample paper)

2. Read pages 176-middle 180
Questions #1-4 should be done by the end of today

3. Fill in #5:
Malcolm accuses the white man of using "promises, trickery, and manipulation" to control India through Great Britain's East India Company because they were "brown" and "heathen". In China, they brought opium in to keep the Chinese "narcotized" to take control of their trade (181).

4. Quiz--when you are finished please sit quietly while others are working

Homework: Please continue to work on your college essay (personal narrative) for Friday.