Novel Annotation Sets

Assignment 1

Novel Annotation set 1

Annotate passages that will be helpful to your interpretation of the novel (theme idea) based on other elements of literature. The novel has several possible themes, so it helps to highlight multiple things you're thinking about at this stage and then narrow your focus later for the essay.

I'm trying to keep your photo evidence requirement minimal, so upload five pictures of representative page spreads of your annotations here, including beginning, ending, and middle of the assigned section of reading. (A page spread is when you open the book and take a picture of the two pages that are spread out in front of you).

You may upload image files (jpg or png format) or a document in Word or PDF format here (you can just put your photos in the document that way). Note: Make sure page numbers are visible in the photos.

Read the novel The Road, annotate pages 3-69.

Assignment 2

Novel Annotation set 2

Annotate passages that will be helpful to your interpretation of the novel (theme idea) based on other elements of literature. Each of your novels has several possible themes, so it helps to highlight multiple things you're thinking about at this stage and then narrow your focus later for the essay.

Read the novel The Road, read and annotate pages 70-137.

Assignment 3

Novel Annotation set 3

Read the novel The Road, read and annotate pages 138-204.

Assignment 4

Novel Annotation set 4

novel The Road, read and annotate pages 205-250.

Assignment 5

Novel Annotation set 5

novel The Road, read and annotate pages 251-287.

Assignment 6

1a. Homelessness

1b. Write what could be a possible solution(s) to the topic stated in 1a that you would be able to explain what it's all about and not just the benefits of it.

2a. Adoption

2b. Write what could be a possible problem.

Assignment 7

Related to assignment 6

Answer the following questions for your speech that will get you thinking about what may go in each section of your speech.

1.What is the problem that currently exists?

2a.What is your solution or solutions?

2b.How will you meet the goal of describing what the solution is all about rather than stating benefits or outcomes of the solution(s)?

3.What are the benefits of your solution(s)?

4.What is a specific thing you want the listener to do that will get things started toward making your solution a reality?

5a.Out of the four main points above, which will be the hardest to complete?

5b.Why?

Assignment 8

Definitions of Persuasion

Persuasion is complex. In that complexity, it can be viewed and approached in many different ways. Ten different definitions of persuasion are below.

Instructions:

Write the number of the one that stands out to you and explain in one sentence why it speaks to you.

1. Persuasion is intended communication that affects how others think, feel and/or act toward some object, person, group, or idea.

2. It is symbolic and non-coercive. It creates, reinforces, or changes responses. It is transactional and it is ubiquitous.

3. Persuasion is the process of preparing and delivering verbal and nonverbal messages to autonomous individuals in order to alter or strengthen their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.

4. Persuasion is an activity or process in which a communicator attempts to induce a change in the belief, attitude, or behavior of another person or group of persons through the transmission of a message in a context in which the persuadee has some degree of choice.

5. It is the shaping, changing, or reinforcing of receivers’ responses, including attitudes, emotions, intentions, and behaviors.

6. We define persuasion as a conscious symbolic act intended to form, modify, or strengthen the beliefs, opinions, values, attitudes and/or behaviors of another or ourselves.

7. Persuasion is the transactional process among two or more persons whereby the management of symbolic meaning reconstructs reality, resulting in a voluntary change in beliefs, attitudes, and/or behaviors.

8. Persuasion is the co-production of meaning that results when an individual or group of individuals uses language strategies and/or visual images to make audiences identify with that individual or group.

9. A successful, intentional effort at influencing another’s mental state through communication in a circumstance in which the persuadee has some measure of freedom.

10. Persuasion is human communication designed to influence the autonomous judgments and actions of others.

Assignment 9

Goal

The goal of this assignment is to demonstrate understanding of the two persuasive methods you are not using for your last speech.

Instructions

Answer the questions below.

1. Fact Topics

Identify one possible Fact topic. Write it in a complete sentence, not just a word.

Ex: California is due for an earthquake in the next 5 years.

1. Value Topics

Identify one possible value topic that follows the same format as value topics. Write one sentence in both of the 2 main points as stated in value topic format.

Ex: Prius is a good car.

Main Point 1: : A good car gets over 40 mpg, can go in the car pool lane and costs under $30,000.

Main point 2: Prius gets 52 mpg and costs around $28,000 and is one of the cars that has been approved for the car pool lane in California.

Assignment 10

Novel Essay Research

Find and annotate 5 sources that will help you with your essay about the novel The Road. The sources may include critical reviews of the novel, critical analysis of other texts that are on a similar theme or topic that you're analyzing in the novel, or key texts that help to explain or apply a literary theory (critical reading strategy) that you think will be useful.

Sources should be in-depth (aim for pieces around 2000 words each) and you must also show that you've read them with some type of annotations on each piece. You need work that provides more than a 500 word fluff piece. A good set of search terms to start with is "literature and criticism" and then add your particular novel, particular symbol, particular critical reading strategy, and so forth to your search string.

you upload photos, you don't necessarily need to photograph every page of what you read, but I need to be able to see what source each piece is from and be able to read representative samples of your notes on it.

Assignment 11

Related to assignment 6 and 7

Write a speech outline just like the sample below using the info from assignment 6 and 7

Sample Persuasive Outline

Goal: My audience will be persuaded to help reduce air pollution.

Technique: The United States Health Organization states that pollution in our air is increasing at the rate of 5% each year.

Credibility: I have been studying the effects of air pollution over the last few weeks and have become more concerned than ever.

State Topic or Give Preview of Main Points or Overall Goal: I am here to talk about the devastating affects of air pollution, some viable solutions, the improvements we can expect from addressing this problem, and how you can be part of the solution.

1. Problem. Air pollution is increasing.

-Effects on our health

-Impact on wildlife and Mother Earth

-Changes through the last 100 years

1. Solutions. There are many possible solutions to fix air pollution.

-Regulation

-Underground cities

-Increase of trees

1. Benefits/Outcomes of Solution. Life will be better when this plan is implemented.

-Imagine you wake up without asthma. You walk outside and fill your lungs with clean air. (Ideal world)

-The human population will be healthier, Weather patterns will stabilize. Fewer people displaced by sever storms. (Problem items fixed)

1. Action. You can be part of the solution.

-Plant a tree this week. You can buy one at this location (Give hours and location address)

-Next time a proposition comes up, vote for regulations.

-Write your Congressperson today. This is their website.

Conclusion:

Review of Main Points or Reminder of Overall Goal: To end, I talked about the problem of air pollution, provided some viable solutions, showed how life will be improved once our solution goes into effect, and what you can do to make a difference.

Technique: I would like to leave you with the words of Stacy Lampert, Direct of Earth Save,"The solutions of tomorrow are developed today".

Works Cited

Clark, Gerald. The World Around Us, Global Weekly, 4/7/2012.

PollutionSolution.com, May 2022.

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