Today’s Game Plan

• Decontextualization: Notes & Activity
• Writer’s Workshop: Body Paragraphs

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Homework:

Due Thursday: Read Garcia Girls, 40-103

Due Tuesday: Body Paragraph assignment

Decontextualization

To determine a text’s audience and purpose, we need to ask ourselves:

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What do we know about the context in which a particular text is written?

Contextual Clues

• Title of work
• Name of the author
• Year of publication

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These clues give us a lot of information about the context!

Agree or disagree?

We often project our understanding of the world onto texts in order to make them meaningful.

Decontextualized Text

How can we determine a text’s intended audience, purpose, and context if the text is stripped of all its contextual clues?

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Read the mystery text & hypothesize:

• When was the text written?
• Who wrote it?
• Who was the target audience?
• What kind of effect did this text have on the target audience?

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Source Reveal

• When was the text written?
• June 17, 2014
• Who wrote it?
• Blogger on “Endangered Languages” website
• Who was the target audience?
• English speakers who use digital media and social networking and are interested in helping to preserve endangered languages.
• What kind of effect did this text have on the target audience?
• Encouraged the target audience to visit the other social networking sites and maybe even add a video.

Three Parts of a Paragraph

• Part 1 - Idea: Topic sentence supporting your thesis.
• Part 2 - Example: Quote from the text supporting your topic sentence.
• Part 3 - Explanation: An analysis of your textual evidence that is at least TWICE AS long as the textual evidence used.

Parenthetical Citations

Format 1: “Textual Evidence” (#).

Example 1: Hurston notes "the wife of the Mayor was not just another woman as she had supposed" (#).

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Format 2: “Textual Evidence” (Hurston #).

Example 2: “The wife of the Mayor was not just another woman as she had supposed" (Hurston #).