Textual analysis redux

TEXT


What is it?  (what kind of text? how precise can you be?)

What does it do? (what's the big idea?)

How does it do what it does?   (what are the golden nuggets?)

• Rhetoric
• Imagery and other literary devices
• Diction and syntax
• tone and mood

Why does it do what it does?   persuade? inform? entertain?

Who is the audience?           How is this indicated?

Macbeth

Themes

power and corruption
the dagger of the mind
all is not what it seems
natural and supernatural
past vs present vs future



Motifs

supernatural occurrences
weather
night time
blood and gore
swords and knives


Characters

Macbeth - waaaaaay to suggestible
Lady Macbeth - so determined, so certain, it goes so wrong
Banquo - too smart, too trusting, Foil no.1
Macduff - if only he were a bit smarter, beware Macduff, Foil no.2
Malcolm - smaaaaart
Duncan - really? who would have thought the old man would have so much blood in him?

Gatsby

Themes: (you need to raise the bar on these)

• I do not want what I already Have
• East vs West 
• The rich are Different...
• Can’t live in the Past?…Of course you can.
• American dream? It’s a lie.
• What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon?  And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

Motifs:

•  Car Crashes
•  The green light
•  Light
•  The Valley of Ashes and the 'Eyes' 
•  Alcohol  
• Weather 

Important Characters:

• Nick- a reliable/unreliable narrative voice, judgmental
• Daisy- unreliable in almost every way
• Jordan- reliably self-centered
• George Wilson- Reliable in every way; dull, dull, dull
• Tom- Reliably, predictably, a self-centered bully
• Meyer Wolfsheim- utterly reliable (he knows a guy)
• Gatsby- Who am I?

Rubrics

Orals


SL Paper 1


SL Paper 2


SL Written Task

Paragraphs reminder

Paragraphs????

OH YEAH!

Paragraphs 101

The paragraph

-Hook
- Introduction
-Thesis
-Example (2-3 maximum)
-Explanation (50-70 % of the paragraph, including context)
-Conclusion/link to next paragraph

Q

How have writers used narrative voice and/or characterization to explore a social or intellectual concern in the two works you have studied?

Air France campaign

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