English I PreAP

Mrs. Rammos

*“I Have a Dream” &

Close-Reading

*Get Ready…

*Pick up a copy of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” from the table.

*Turn in your six word memoir and/or contact sheet to your class period’s drawer. (Remember: contact sheet and supplies are DUE tomorrow!)

*Get out your “Dreams” free write from yesterday.

*Warm Up

*What’s the difference between a dream and a goal?

*My goal is to become an architect. My dream is to inspire people to express themselves with the structures I design as an architect.

*Dr. Martin Luther King’s goal was to become a civil rights activist. His dream was for there to be peace between whites and blacks. He dreamt of integration and equality.

Look at what you wrote. Did you write about dreams or goals? Choose one paragraph to rewrite, focusing on the dream and how it will impact the world.

Your paragraph must be 5 – 7 powerful and profound sentences.

*Close Reading & Annotating

*Annotating = Thinking on Paper

*You must:

*Highlight + Comment

OR

*Underline + Comment

OR

*Star + Comment

THE COMMENT = ANNOTATION

COMMENT = why did you highlight, underline, star…

whatever?

*Get Ready…

*Do you have your supplies?

*binder

*dividers: “Sacred Pages”, “Notes”, “Reading”, “MAV”, “Graded”

*Composition notebook or spiral

*notebook paper

*pens, pencils, highlighters (pink, green, blue, yellow)

Did you turn in your contact sheet?

Pick up handouts on the table and get out your “I Have a Dream” speech from yesterday.

*WARM UP

*In your writer’s notebook (composition or spiral), write the following sentence:

With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

*Imitate the structure and write your own sentence.

*Continue Close Reading &

Annotating

*Annotating = Thinking on Paper

*You must:

*Highlight + Comment

OR

*Underline + Comment

OR

*Star + Comment

THE COMMENT = ANNOTATION

COMMENT = why did you highlight, underline, star…

whatever?

*EXIT TICKET

*Review the literary terms on the bottom of the back page

*Highlight the terms you are familiar with (can define and recognize an example)

*Get Ready…

*Turn in your “A Raisin in the Sun” essays to your class period’s drawer/box

*You will need your own copy of Animal Farm by George Orwell by Friday of this week! Write it in your planner/set a reminder in your phone!

*Any “late” contact sheets? Put it in the drawer/box.

*Get out your “I Have a Dream” speech and Rhetorical Analysis packet you got on Friday.

*Warm Up

* In your writer’s notebook, list and define the following literary terms:

- Alliteration

- Allusion

- Anaphora – repetition of a series of words at the beginning of lines

- Assonance

- Metaphor

- Metonymy – figure of speech in which a thing or concept is called not by its name but by a word associated with its meaning

- Hyperbole

- Parallelism

- Personification

- Simile

- Synecdoche – figure of speech in which a part is made to represent a wholeTry and define the terms based on your understanding and knowledge. If you are stuck, use the index in the back of the literature book.

*Rhetorical Analysis Chart

*Determine which of the literary devices are sound devices and which are figurative language. Write the terms in the boxes under the category.

*Any term that doesn’t fit those two categories, should be written in the “Other” box.

*With a partner, work on finding examples from MLK’s speech for each of the elements.

*Note the effect on the audience – why did MLK use that particular element? What effect did he achieve with it? (analysis)