- Students will read texts of appropriate complexity from multiple genres and themes in order to analyze the author' ability to incorporate purposeful language. Examples are the poem A Time to Tell by Robert Frost; the novels A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor; and the short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut.
- " Students will analyze and evaluate the author's use of purposeful language in the text as preparation for the literary magazine job interview. Students will answer the following "Interview Questions:"
Interview Questions
- At this magazine, it is very important for our staff to understand how language is used to create meaning and style (Objective a). Please discuss the style of a literary text of your choice. Explain how the author has used specific language choices to create a specific style, including the denotations and connotations of words and the use dialect, idioms, or colloquialisms to create style. Explain which language choices were most effective in creating the style (analysis).
- At this magazine, it is very important for our staff to understand how language choices create tone and the appropriateness of that tone (Objective b, c). Please discuss the tone of a literary text of your choice. Explain the words and phrases that are used to create the tone and the appropriateness of the tone for the meaning and style of the text. Explain which language choices were most effective in creating the tone.
- At this magazine, it is very important for our staff to understand how an author uses figurative language, images, and symbols to create meaning (Objectives d, e). Please give examples of figurative language from a literary text of your choice and explain how each example contributes to the style, tone, or meaning. Explain which language choices were most effective in contributing to meaning.
- At this magazine, it is very important for our staff to understand how the elements of style contribute to meaning (Objective f). Please give examples of elements of style, such as repetition, hyperbole, understatement, or rhetorical questions from a text of your choice. Explain the connections between the element of style and the text's meaning tone, or style. Explain which elements of style were most effective in contributing to meaning.
- The teacher will organize students in pairs for the interviews, assigning the role of the "Editor-in-Chief" to one student and "job applicant" to the other (auditory learning style). The Editor-in-Chief will ask the applicant the interview questions, and based on the thoroughness and accuracy of the applicant's answers, will assess the applicant's ability to perform the job functions (evaluation). The students will then switch roles, and the Editor-in-Chief will become the applicant to be interviewed.
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