Wednesday, April 3, 2019

76 minutes

      1.   SSR 

      2.   Review and complete connotation exercise 

      3.   Re-read and annotate the passages from Joseph Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness 

      4.   Groups: Share your annotations and discuss how connotation and tone reveal the narrator’s attitudes.

      5.   In Google Classroom, write a 150-word analysis of the passages, focusing on how connotation and tone convey the narrator’s attitude toward his subject. In your analysis, be sure to comment on the use of specific words or phrases that convey the narrator’s attitude. This assignment is to be completed in Google Classroom during class time. 

       6.   Craft lesson: Use the following sentence frame to craft your opening sentence:

In the passages from Joseph Conrad’s novel The Heart of Darkness, the narrator’s attitude towards ____________ is conveyed by____________. For example, __________...

HOMEWORK DUE by midnight, Thursday, April 4: Conrad and Connotation Analysis. Turn this in on Google Classroom.