Honors English 9
March 4, 2019
BELL WORK
Grab a Chromebook.
Open the “Scarlet Ibis” First Paragraph Analysis that you completed with a partner.
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ORCHESTRA STUDENTS:
Open your “American History” Essay and unsubmit it.
GRAMMAR RUBRIC
Open the grammar rubric shared on Classroom and copy and paste it to the bottom of your AH Essay.
WHAT YOU MISSED:
Revise your “American History” essay as needed to meet the requirements on the grammar performance rubric
LEARNING TARGET
I can use quotes effectively when analyzing a text.
I will show this by embedding the quotes in my “Scarlet Ibis” analysis paragraph.
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Analysis Paragraph Revision
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Answer Complexity
Even if they don’t say it explicitly in the prompt, AP always prefers a complex answer over a simple one
Hurst creates a sad mood.
vs.
Hurst creates a mood that is both melancholy and hopeful.
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Answer Complexity
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Embedding Quotes
Long quotes make it difficult to tell what device you are actually analyzing
“It was the clove of seasons, summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born” makes the mood darker.
What in that quote are you analyzing? A certain word? Symbolism? Contrast?
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Embedding Quotes
“Embedding quotes” means to take only the pieces of the quote you are actually analyzing and incorporating them into your own sentence.
When Hurst chooses to describe summer as “dead,” a word loaded with pain and grief, rather than just “over,” he is beginning to establish the dark mood of the story.
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Dropped-In Quote
Embedded Quote
Hurst compares Doodle to the scarlet ibis. “‘Doodle! Doodle!’ I cried, shaking him, but there was no answer but the ropy rain. He lay very awkwardly, with his head thrown far back, making his vermilion neck appear unusually long and slim. His little legs, bent sharply at the knees, had never before seemed so fragile, so thin. I began to weep, and the tear-blurred vision in red before me looked very familiar. ‘Doodle!’ I screamed above the pounding storm and threw my body to the earth above his. For a long long time, it seemed forever, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain.”
Hurst compares Doodle to the scarlet ibis. In the last paragraphs of the story, when Brother finds Doodle’s body, he notices Doodle’s “vermilion neck” and his “little legs, bent sharply at the knees.” Brother even goes so far as to call Doodle “my fallen scarlet ibis.”
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Dropped-In Quote
Embedded Quote
Doodle had an unusual birth, “Everybody thought he was going to die—everybody except Aunt Nicey, who had delivered him. She said he would live because he was born in a caul and cauls were made from Jesus’ nightgown.” This shows that he was different from the time he was born.
Doodle was different from the time he was born, not just because of his physical limitations, but because he was “born in a caul.” Cauls were associated with many superstitions, just as Aunt Nicey demonstrates when she says that Doodle will live because “cauls were made from Jesus’ nightgown.”
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EMBEDDING QUOTES: Practice
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