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THEN, read AT LEAST two of the following non-fiction essays/speeches and be prepared to take a quiz tomorrow!

This is a woman's story who is shunned by everyone she knew after getting pregnant at 16.

This is a man's appeal for the enjoyment and treasure of reading.

John F. Kennedy's first speech as President.

Yes, the famous Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech.

Nelson Mandella's opening speech at his trial for treason.

Soujourner Truth's speech to the National Women's Convention in 1851.

For tomorrow, be considering what it is that makes a speaker/writer persuasive and engaging. What do you want to hear when you listen to someone speaking for a prolonged amount of time? What makes you interested in what people have to say? Are there gimmicks that keep your attention? Are there any of these elements in the selections you read today? Do the selections have anything in common?

The song only 1st period heard:

- This gives many examples of adjectives used to describe mood and those used to describe tone. (These will come in handy here shortly...)

- This will offer practice after the explaination so you can try your hand at differentiating between the two. (Also a skill that will come in handy shortly...)

Below are the videos... Please watch one... or BOTH! :)

Last week...

Monday and Tuesday...

You will do the exercises for the Adj. phrases Monday and Adj. clauses on Tuesday...

• skim milk is made by allowing the fat to rise to the top of the milk where it is then skimmed off, creating a healthier, but much less tasty beverage... skimming a reading selection allows you to gather the main ideas, or 'the good stuff' from a quick overview.
• scanning a bar code of a product gives you specific information about that item, like what it is and how much is costs... scanning a reading selection is an effort to find particular information in the article, story, advertisment, etc.

• According to Bloom's Taxonomy (rendered as a butterfly below) synthesizing - creating new ideas from the combined analysis and assessment of pre-existing ideas - is of the highest level of cognition (define this word for me and I'll give you bonus points) whereas summarizing - a general retelling of main points - is on the lower levels.

• At first glance these defintions may look better suited for a science lesson, especially the second that shows Chemistry in italics, indicating where that definition should be applied. However, consider that the word 'element' can have multiple meanings in different academic areas and use the first definition for our purposes in English IV.

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• 1st person - where the narrator is involved in the story - Common pronouns used are: I, our, me, mine, us
• 2nd person - (the most complex) where the narrator is aware of the reader - Common pronouns used are: You, though it is in addressing the audience
• 3rd person - where the narrator is removed from the story - Common pronouns used are: He, she, they, them, their
  • 3rd person omniscient - the narrator is aware of the outward actions, inner thoughts and feelings of ALL characters
  • 3rd person subjective/limited - the narrator is limited to only one chracter's inner thoughts and feelings, but can still observe the outer actions of all characters
  • 3rd person objective - the narrator only see the outer actions of the chracters and knows no inner thoughts or feelings of any characte