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Artist Statement
Example Sarah Doe Étude High School, Addie Degenhardt & Dan Stenz, Issues and Ethics Escaping Ordinary Life, Darkening Realities Glass Installation This glass installation project demonstrates the conflict of interest between native Antiguans and modern-day tourists in A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid. The light-filled prisms represent the expectations of the tourists - to visit a land of sandy beaches, crystal clear waters and sunny skys. The tourists aim to escape the realities of their dull, ordinary lives by filling themselves, for even a short time, with paradise regardless of the impact they have on Antigua. The dark hidden prisms represent the realities of the native Antiguans. While the tourists seek paradise, the realities of the Antiguans are overlooked - long working hours, minimal pay, deep debts and daily existence of corrupt government officials. Studio Time | Studio Time Goal Setting sheet
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Do Now | Review Deadlines
Studio Time | Goal Setting + Conferences
Exit Slip | Studio Time Reflection Today you will begin creating a proposal/outline for your final A Small Place project. This will be done using the Project Starbursting ideation technique. This starburst will be continually added to throughout the project process, including direct quotes, symbols, references to other readings/activities. Do Now | Prepare for ideation
Susan Sontag claimed that “a display of intelligence” is one aspect of a good essay. Well instead of giving you one shot to display your intelligence, you will receive several by constructing separate rhetorical analysis paragraphs that combine to convey your understanding of A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid.
While I will give you some specific prompts that you may want to consider within your analysis, the general focus of your writing is up to you. General Analysis Questions
Kincaid Focused Questions Argument Analysis Analyze Kincaid’s argument:
Rhetorical Analysis Analyze Kincaid’s use of second person point-of-view:
General Analysis Format
Studio Time
Accordion Book Checklist | A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid
Reminder: British Imperialism | Circle of Viewpoints should be completed if you left Dan's class with it on Monday. Silent Reading | Part III of A Small Place Annotations
Writing Conference | Addie will conference with you on your rhetorical strategies sticky note annotations.
Please grab your Accordion Books. As you watch the TedTalk, complete the following activity in your accordion book:
Compass Points:
Reconsider: The Effects of Gentrification in Milwaukee, WUWM
Add to your Compass Points by (re)considering the same questions in regards to this podcast:
A Small Place | Read Part III to the break on page 52
Do Now | Prepare you sticky notes
Read Part II Quote Analysis
Do Now | Turn and Talk
Every other person in the class will receive a rhetorical strategy we have discussed while reading Part I of A Small Place. Turn and talk to the person you. Recall the definition of the rhetorical strategy. Discuss one way Kincaid has used the rhetorical strategy thus far in the novel. Find a direct quote from Part I that represents the strategy. When you have a response, please select one person to write both the strategy and the quote on the board. Be prepared to discuss as a group. Rhetorical Strategies
Accordion Book | Jeremiad Define the term Jeremiad in your own words based on the following definition: "A jeremiad is, by its most basic definition, a long literary work criticizing and lamenting the flaws of society. In A Small Place, Kincaid draws from the long history of the American jeremiad — so much so that Salman Rushdie described the novel as “a jeremiad of great clarity and force that one might have called torrential were the language not so finely controlled.” The Jeremiad is a form which first originated among 17th century New England Puritans. The Puritans believed they had been called by God to flee a corrupt Anglo Church in England and to start their own “beacon on the hill” in the New World. According to historian David Howard Pitney, “the American jeremiad arose as a form of ritualistic complaint and self- reproach because of the apparent failure of Puritan society to fulfill its task of self-perfection and world redemption” (482). Jeremiads were named after the biblical prophet Jeremiah and were characterized by a “long list of perceived social ills, denounc[ing] people for their sins and misconduct, and warn[ings] of worse tribulations and divine punishments to come if they did not quickly repent and observe their social covenant” (482). The traditional jeremiad was composed of three parts: citing of God’s promise, lamenting the current moral decline of society, and prophesying the promise’s imminent fulfillment" (Great World Text). Analysis | David Walker's Appeal
Exit Slip: Accordion Book Do Now | Accordion Book Reflection
Annotations | A Small Place, Part I
Consider the use of pronouns in the narrative, the opening you, as well as moments when Kincaid switches from we to they in referring to the native Antiguans.
Do Now | Accordion Book
Analysis | Compass PointsNorth: What does the speaker believe to be true? What is his argument? West: What do you believe to be true? Do you agree? Why or why not? East: What evidence does the speaker use to support his argument? South: So What? What does this topic or argument suggest about us as humans? Connections: What are the narrators truths in A Small Place? What are the Antiguans truths? What are the tourists truths? Rhetorical Analysis | A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid Sticky Note Annotations
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