Objectives:
Master tone
Understand and use complex sentence structure
Identify and analyze advanced diction
Tuesday March 29
Diction exercise with par on 154-155 "However . . .crystal"
select 8 challenging words, (4 verbs, 4 modifiers) write down definition, etymology and synonyms
Discuss how selected words contribute to what Achebe claims as Conrad's practice of "inducing hypnotic stupor
in his readers through a bombardment of emotive words and other
forms of trickery" ("Image of Africa")
Finale for Kurtz and misrepresentations of Marlow evaluated through student DIDLS tone work
Collective examination of prompt:
In both Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and in Conrad's The Heart of Darkness, the authors center their novels around a megalomaniac. According to wikipedia, "Megalomania is a psychopathological condition characterized by fantasies of power, relevance, omnipotence, and by inflated self-esteem."
Contrast Gatsby with Kurtz in a well-developed essay, focusing on the layers of story-telling, the varieties of myth, the capacity for self-delusion, their place in history and the similar fates of these two larger-than-life men.
Discussion, quote selection and planning for timed write.
Thursday 3/31
Thesis comparison
Evidence evaluation
Writing time for Heart of Darkness prompt.
Collect Heart of Darkness
Issue Mrs. Dalloway
HW) Read Mrs. Dalloway 1-28 make character book mark
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