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Thinking Routine | Values, Identities, Actions Antigua: Today, you will embark on some research about the island of Antigua using the thinking routine Values, Identities, Actions. Fill out the thinking routine by researching the following categories: Demographics
Reflection
Thinking Routine | Values, Identities, Actions
Do Now | See, Think, Wonder
Do Next | Rhetorical Strategies Posters
Rhetoric is the use of language to persuade an audience to understand the writer's perspective in nonfiction text. There are several rhetorical strategies we will analyze when reading A Small Place this unit. Today, you will each receive one rhetorical strategy to present to the rest of the class. To develop an understanding of this strategies do some quick research: define the strategy in our own words, construct a symbol you think represents the strategy, and explain your symbol in writing. Then create a mini-poster to hang on the wall for us to reference during this unit. Include the name of the strategy, the definition of the strategy and your symbol. Also be sure to leave space for us to record examples from A Small Place.
Presentations | Present your poster to the rest of the class. As each person is presenting, copy their definition of the rhetorical strategy into your notes. Exit Slip | Posters, maps
Do Now | The Patriot Act
Watch selection (0-7 minutes) from Netflix's The Patriot Act episode titled Amazon. Accordion Book Reflection Amazon
Rhetoric is the use of language to persuade an audience to understand the writer's perspective in nonfiction text. There are several rhetorical strategies we will analyze when reading A Small Place this unit. To develop an understanding of these strategies do some quick research: define the strategy, construct a symbol you think represents the strategy, and explain your symbol.
Making Workshop | Accordion Book Create a new accordion book OR if you were in World Lit last semester, add on to your existing accordion book. Create a cover page that uses images and symbols about the following terms: Entry 1
Do Now | Rehearse your group's movements a final time.
Recording | 15 minutes sessions in the dance studio, there may be time available tomorrow as well
Artist Statement | When you are done filming, you need to finish and finalize your artist statement. Have Addie review and give feedback before publishing it on the Academics Artifacts page of your writing portfolio. Theme | The connection to A Small Place and the world you know and understand. The argument that you want your views to appreciate from the novel, about the novel.
Creation | The breakdown of meaning within the movements of the dance.
General Format
General Advice
Publication | Enhance your portfolio by publishing your artist statement and dance creation (or something that represents it, like your notes or drawings) on the Academic Artifacts page. Do Now | Who writes history?
Writing Workshop | Final Cyberjournal!!! Paragraph 1:
Paragraph 2:
Professional Publication
Do Now | How can you see something for first time, multiple times?
Thinking Routine | On Seeing England for the First Time, Jamaica Kincaid
Annotations
Exit Slip | What is one narrative connection to A Small Place?
Do Now | Compass Points
Reconsider: The Effects of Gentrification in Milwaukee, WUWM
Add to your Compass Points by (re)considering the same questions in regards to this podcast:
Cyberjournal | Read Part III to the break on page 52 Turn your Compass Points into a comprehensive Cyberjournal that considers thoughts on gentrification using evidence from the two audios from yesterday as well as considers gentrification within the novel: What “gentrification” happened in Antigua in part three?
Professional Publication
Do Now | Four Corners
There is a direct quote from Part II in A Small Place in each corner of the room. As you enter the room, you will be designated a specific corner of the room. Consider the meaning of the quote on the paper, by responding directly on the paper.
Direct Quotes
Discussion | Symbolism After discussing our Four Corners response, let's reconsider the the quotes through a symbolic lens. Remember that a symbol is an object, person, or idea that is supposed to represent something else, something more, something meaningful to help us better understand the argument that is being presented through the text.
Writing Workshop | Cyberjournal *You will have tomorrow to continue working on this cyberjournal, so do not rush through it today. In Part I, Kincaid discusses the idea of "ordinary" and how it propels people to leave their world behind to visit new, more exotic lands on holiday. What does it mean to be ordinary? To live an ordinary life? Why are some people compelled to leave the ordinary? In Part II, Kincaid outlines how the British taught Antiguans to be ordinary.
Direct Evidence: provide a piece of direct evidence from the novel to support your ideas in this week's cyberjournal Professional Publication
Exit Slip | How might the Mills Reef Club relate or connect to what you have learned with Molly in movement? Do Now | Turn and Talk
Every other person in the class will receive a rhetorical strategy we have discussed while reading Part I of A Small Place. Turn and talk to the person you. Recall the definition of the rhetorical strategy. Discuss one way Kincaid has used the rhetorical strategy thus far in the novel.
Rhetorical Strategies
Jeremiad Define the term Jeremiad in your own words based on the following definition: "A jeremiad is, by its most basic definition, a long literary work criticizing and lamenting the flaws of society. In A Small Place, Kincaid draws from the long history of the American jeremiad — so much so that Salman Rushdie described the novel as “a jeremiad of great clarity and force that one might have called torrential were the language not so finely controlled.” The Jeremiad is a form which first originated among 17th century New England Puritans. The Puritans believed they had been called by God to flee a corrupt Anglo Church in England and to start their own “beacon on the hill” in the New World. According to historian David Howard Pitney, “the American jeremiad arose as a form of ritualistic complaint and self- reproach because of the apparent failure of Puritan society to fulfill its task of self-perfection and world redemption” (482). Jeremiads were named after the biblical prophet Jeremiah and were characterized by a “long list of perceived social ills, denounc[ing] people for their sins and misconduct, and warn[ings] of worse tribulations and divine punishments to come if they did not quickly repent and observe their social covenant” (482). The traditional jeremiad was composed of three parts: citing of God’s promise, lamenting the current moral decline of society, and prophesying the promise’s imminent fulfillment" (Great World Text). Analysis | David Walker's Appeal
Do Now | Maps of Antigua
Analysis | Part I, A Small Place Pull out your rhetorical strategies quick guide. Today we will be introduced to the novel by reading the first couple of pages together. While reading consider the following questions for discussion:
Exit Slip | Cyberjournal I Used to Think....Now I Think Add one last paragraph to your cyberjournal from yesterday. Consider the start of the novel compared to your original thoughts on tourism.
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éPortfolio Submission FormCourse DescriptionA Small Place is an interdisciplinary course inspired by the controversial nonfiction novel, A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid, about Antigua—the lasting effects of British colonialism, criticism of the tourist industry and corruption of Antiguan government. Throughout this course, Étudians will research and analyze a wide variety of multimedia texts about Antigua, Sheboygan, and Native American history in Wisconsin; focused on the themes of tourist and native, colonialism and gentrification, and the cultural importance of movement.
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