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The Awakening: Chapter 6 Style Analysis Project

A Cooperative Lesson

Revised from a Lesson by Deborah Louis, AP Consultant

Goals:

• Work cooperatively to analyze assigned sentence(s) and present a thorough and thoughtful analysis that explains how the author’s style contributes to the tone and meaning, especially how the ideas of chapter 6 connect to the novel as a whole.

• Select and use digital tools to craft a multi-media presentation that presents analysis and invites feedback and discussion from a global audience, using any combination of the following digital tools:

o , wiki, blog

o text documents

o video

o photographs

o slideshow(s)

Assigned Roles:

1. Diction Detective

a. Determines, defines, and presents author’s strongest word choices (diction), their connotations, and associated tones.

b. Defines and presents ambiguous or difficult vocabulary of the sentence.

2. Syntax Sleuth

a. Presents the type of sentence, identifying the independent and dependent clauses and the subjects within the clauses. Explains syntax and its impact on the overall meaning.

b. Identifies any schemes or tropes (rhetorical devices) and explains their effect and author’s purpose in using them.

c. Explains how author’s diction connects to author’s purpose and meaning.

3. Imagery Imitator

a. Meets with team and examines other team members’ explanations and charts before drawing.

b. Draws the sentence to bring to life the imagery and tone of the sentence. Makes certain that no color exists on paper that does not exist in sentences. No white space exists unless there is white in the sentence.

c. Pays special attention to color inferences, shapes, and subordinated ideas vs. main ideas.

d. Mediums: markers, pencils, cut-outs, paints, crayons, PowerPoint, PhotoShop, etc.

e. Explains art decisions in presentation, explaining how details of drawing connect to meaning of sentence(s).

4. Attitude Analyst and Digital Director

a. Evaluates and presents author’s selection of detail and, if present, allusions.

b. Leads discussion with whole group to put sentence(s) in context of the whole novel, explaining these ideas in the presentation.

c. Crafts a tone thesis sentence that accurately pinpoints the tone of the sentence(s) and the “So What?”—the author’s purpose and point.

d. Leads discussion with whole group to select a format for presentation and decide which digital tool or combination of tools would work best to present analysis. Creates a storyboard to map out presentation format and identify digital tools used.

e. Coordinates digital tasks to complete and publish project.

“In good writing, words become one with things.”

- Ralph Emerson

#1 A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly with her—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

Circle the type of sentence: simple compound complex compound-complex

Circle the subjects in the sentence. Remember, each clause has a subject. Avoid those sneaky prepositional

phrases.

Questions to ponder, discuss, answer, and explain in your presentation. Identify the strongest words and/or phrases in your sentences and discern between diction, detail, imagery, and syntax.

DICTION

|Strong words |Denotation |Connotation |Tone |

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RHETORICAL/LITERARY DEVICE

|Quotations |Device |Purpose, Effect, Meaning |Tone |

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IMAGERY

|Images (Look for phrases) |Colors? |Shapes and Senses? |Connotation |Tone |

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Write a Compound Sentence: What is your interpretation of the purpose, effect, meaning of sentence(s)?

“In good writing, words become one with things.”

- Ralph Emerson

#2 At that early period it served but to bewilder her. It moved her to dreams, to thoughtfulness, to the shadowy anguish which had overcome her the midnight when she had abandoned herself to tears.

Circle the type of sentence: simple compound complex compound-complex

Circle the subjects in the sentence. Remember, each clause has a subject. Avoid those sneaky prepositional

phrases.

Questions to ponder, discuss, answer, and explain in your presentation. Identify the strongest words and/or phrases in your sentences and discern between diction, detail, imagery, and syntax.

DICTION

|Strong words |Denotation |Connotation |Tone |

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DETAIL

|Details which add factual elaboration |Importance to passage; Importance to reader |

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RHETORICAL/LITERARY DEVICE

|Quotations |Device |Purpose, Effect, Meaning |Tone |

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IMAGERY

|Images (Look for phrases) |Colors? |Shapes and Senses? |Connotation |Tone |

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Write a Compound Sentence: What is your interpretation of the purpose, effect, meaning of sentence(s)?

“In good writing, words become one with things.”

- Ralph Emerson

#3 In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight—perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman.

Circle the type of sentence: simple compound complex compound-complex

Circle the subjects in the sentence. Remember, each clause has a subject. Avoid those sneaky prepositional

phrases.

Questions to ponder, discuss, answer, and explain in your presentation. Identify the strongest words and/or phrases in your sentences and discern between diction, detail, imagery, and syntax.

DICTION

|Strong words |Denotation |Connotation |Tone |

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ALLUSION

|Quotations |Reference |Purpose, Effect, Meaning |Tone |

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RHETORICAL/LITERARY DEVICE

|Quotations |Device |Purpose, Effect, Meaning |Tone |

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Write a Compound Sentence: What is your interpretation of the purpose, effect, meaning of sentence(s)?

“In good writing, words become one with things.”

- Ralph Emerson

#4 But the beginning of things, or a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such a beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult.

Circle the type of sentence: simple compound complex compound-complex

Circle the subjects in the sentence. Remember, each clause has a subject. Avoid those sneaky prepositional

phrases.

Questions to ponder, discuss, answer, and explain in your presentation. Identify the strongest words and/or phrases in your sentences and discern between diction, detail, imagery, and syntax.

DICTION

|Strong words |Denotation |Connotation |Tone |

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RHETORICAL/LITERARY DEVICE

|Quotations |Device |Purpose, Effect, Meaning |Tone |

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IMAGERY

|Images (Look for phrases) |Colors? |Shapes and Senses? |Connotation |Tone |

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Write a Compound Sentence: What is your interpretation of the purpose, effect, meaning of sentence(s)?

“In good writing, words become one with things.”

- Ralph Emerson

#5 The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.

Circle the type of sentence: simple compound complex compound-complex

Circle the subjects in the sentence. Remember, each clause has a subject. Avoid those sneaky prepositional

phrases.

Questions to ponder, discuss, answer, and explain in your presentation. Identify the strongest words and/or phrases in your sentences and discern between diction, detail, imagery, and syntax.

DICTION

|Strong words |Denotation |Connotation |Tone |

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RHETORICAL/LITERARY DEVICE

|Quotations |Device |Purpose, Effect, Meaning |Tone |

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IMAGERY

|Images (Look for phrases) |Colors? |Shapes and Senses? |Connotation |Tone |

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Write a Compound Sentence: What is your interpretation of the purpose, effect, meaning of sentence(s)?

“In good writing, words become one with things.”

- Ralph Emerson

#6 The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

Circle the type of sentence: simple compound complex compound-complex

Circle the subjects in the sentence. Remember, each clause has a subject. Avoid those sneaky prepositional

phrases.

Questions to ponder, discuss, answer, and explain in your presentation. Identify the strongest words and/or phrases in your sentences and discern between diction, detail, imagery, and syntax.

DICTION

|Strong words |Denotation |Connotation |Tone |

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RHETORICAL/LITERARY DEVICE

|Quotations |Device |Purpose, Effect, Meaning |Tone |

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IMAGERY

|Images (Look for phrases) |Colors? |Shapes and Senses? |Connotation |Tone |

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Write a Compound Sentence: What is your interpretation of the purpose, effect, meaning of sentence(s)?

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