Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Accents and Jargons and Slangs, Oh My!


Blue:

I love talking about language. Power Point presentations can get very boring very quickly, but today was fun. On Friday, we will be look at the dialects present in TKAM and discussing why Harper Lee would choose to include it in her text. In addition, we will be looking very closely at the language used to describe First Purchase Church and its parishioners in order to make some well-informed inferences. Your homework tonight is meant to be preparation for that.

Read the summary for chapter 7 and all of chapter 12. While you read, annotate pages 4-7 of chapter 12 with the following question in mind: “What is Harper Lee indirectly telling you about the Black community of Maycomb County with her descriptions of First Purchase?”

As for tomorrow, be sure to remember your books for "Sustained Silent Reading" time. It's too important to skip, even on a half-day.

Word hard: luck means nothing.

We’ll talk tomorrow.

- AC

No comments:

Post a Comment