Spartan Charge

An aged man is but a paltry thing

A tattered coat upon a stick....
W. B. Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium
1. What picture is created by the use of the word
tattered?
2. By understanding the connotations of the word
tattered, what do we understand about the narrators
attitude toward an aged man?

Essential Question
Objectives
Agenda
Homework

Finish Rhetoric Notes (3rd period only)

Ethos, Pathos, Logos Practice

American Dream Phrase Guide

Using your American Dream Phrase Guide, write

what comes to mind when you hear each phrase.

If you have absolutely no idea, go ahead and take a
guess
After writing each guess on your chart, write your
guesses on the paper located around the room.

Rose-Colored Glasses
Definition: the tendency to see things in an

unrealistically positive light

Example: I wish I could go back to elementary

school. Things were so much simpler because I didnt

have anything to worry about.

Rags to Riches
Definition: a situation in which a person begins their

life very poor and later on becomes very rich

Example: Oprah Winfrey was born to unwed teenage

parents in Mississippi. Her grandmother made her

dresses out of potato sacks. Her empire is now worth
$2.7 billion.

Self-Made Man
Definition: a person who was born poor or

disadvantaged but who achieved great economic or

moral success thanks to their own hard work and
ingenuity rather than to any inherited fortune, family
connections, or other privilege.
Same as Rags to Riches?

American Frontier
Definition: a symbol of the can-do spirit where

American citizens could start over and do anything

they wanted to do because of the limitless amount of
space and the limitless number of options
Example: In Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman,

Biff decides to go out west after graduating from high

school because he is not sure what to do with his life.
He believes that traveling out west will give him
options and make him successful.

Good Ol Days
Definition: past times that are remembered fondly;

often used to refer to a time when things were

easier

Same as rose-colored glasses?

Set up Binder
Locate the list of assignments listed on the front

board.
Fill in the list of assignments on your table of
contents.
Put everything into your binder in order.
You may place other assignments, notes, homework,
etc. BEHIND the last item on the table of contents.

Vocabulary Review
__________: the main idea or underlying meaning of a

literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly

__________: techniques used by an author or speaker in
hopes of persuading a reader or listener to consider the topic
from a different angle
__________: a conversation between two or more people as
a feature of a book, play, or movie
__________: a sequence of two or more words that acts as a
unit
__________: a major character in a work of fiction that
encounters conflict and is changed by it; a character that is
described in length and fully developed by the author

Vocabulary Review (continued)

_________: a character in a work of fiction that does not

change over the course of a text and is relatively

uncomplicated
_________: the leading character in a drama, movie, novel,
or other fictional text
_________: a character or concept that stands in opposition
against the protagonist in a drama, movie, novel, or other
fictional text
_________: a meaning that is different from the basic
meaning and that expresses an idea in an interesting way by
using language that usually describes something else
_________: to take words in their most usual or basic sense