Ms. Moraites' Research

Hi everyone!

I am doing research on integrating pop culture in the classroom. I would like to involve you in my research and writing process! Please go to this website and post your answer to the following question:

(Click the link below and double click the wall.)

What is your favorite song, music artist, or music video of '08/'09? Of all time??
If you can't decide, what songs do you DISLIKE?

Thank you!
Ms. Moraites

Week of 10/19-10/23 Vocab and Readings

Continue work on Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Bluest Eye projects.


Finish reading your book by Friday.There will be a quiz on Friday about the vocabulary words and the books.


Vocabulary for this week: Literary Terms

generic conventions
genre
prose
poetry: lyric dramatic epic narrative
drama: tragedy comedy farce melodrama
hyperbole
homily
imagery: visual auditory tactile gustatory olfactory
inference/infer
invective
irony: verbal irony, situational irony, dramatic irony

Readings for Monday, Oct. 26 in The Bedford Reader

Maya Angelou Champion of the World pg. 93
Brent Staples Black Men and Public space pg. 180
Gloria Naylor The Meanings of a Word pg. 406


Check online for quizzes on books.

Figures of speech

New literary terms for next week:

hyperbole
irony
metaphor
metonymy
oxymoron
paradox
personification
simile
synedoche
understatement (litote)
asyndeton
polysyndeton

The Bluest Eye Group

Here is a good website for materials about The Bluest Eye:

academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/morrison.html

Zora Website

Here is a good website for Zora Neale Hurston:

www.zoranealehurston.com

Go to this website, explore, set up a reading and discussion schedule for your group

Week of 10/5 Agenda Hurston/Morrison

This week we will begin to discuss and read Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison

Mon. Finish discussion of Alice Walker's "Beauty"

Tuesday--Go over AP Packet 2 passages/ Turn in O'Brien papers

Wednesday--Go over AP packet 2 more passages; Set reading schedules with groups

Thursday--Discuss first reading assignments

Friday--Continue discussion of novels

Fri. Agenda Hurston/Walker/Morrison

1. Discuss "How It Feels to be Colored Me"

2. Chunk and read Alice Walker's "Beauty: When the Other dancer is the Self"

3. Set up reading schedule for reading group. End of marking period is Oct. 16. Projects should be presented on Oct. 14, 15, and 16.



LINK TO MLA CITATION WEBSITE:

http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/legacylib/mlahcc.html

How it Feels to be Colored Me/Nobel Lecture

Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize Lecture
nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1993/morrison-lecture.html


How It Feels to be Colored Me: finish reading for Homework
grammar.about.com/od/60essays/a/theireyesessay.htm


Zora Neale Hurston website:
www.zoranealehurston.com/

The Toni Morrison society:

www.tonimorrisonsociety.org/readers.html

Video interview with Toni morrison:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUr_XoMCPFA