Virtual Learning w/ Mr. Clark: Nairah

Virtual Learning w/ Mr. Clark

Session 2

Literary Devices Pt. 1

Juxtaposition: the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect

Diction: style of speaking or writing, determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer

Syntax: the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language

Juxtaposition

Examples of juxtaposition: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

Open Ended

Can you name different sets of words or phrases that can be juxtaposed? Place them here.

For example: Best, worst

Open Ended

Diction: What are the different ways you can say that you are 'mad'?

Open Ended

Diction: What are the different ways you can say that you are 'happy'?

Syntax

Each of the following sentences have the same SYNTAX but different DICTION.

The boy jumped happily.

The girl sang beautifully.

The dog barked loudly.

Each of the following sentences have similar DICTION but different SYNTAX.

The boy jumped happily.

The boy happily jumped.

Happily, the boy jumped.

Open Ended

Create Two Sentences with the same SYNTAX but different DICTION

Open Ended

Create Two Sentences with similar DICTION but different SYNTAX

Vocabulary List: Part One

• accomplish

• adaptation

• approached

• argued

• automatically

Vocabulary List: Part Two (cont'd)

• avoid

• border

• calculate

• cause

• circular

Phrases and Terms to Help Understand History

• Racial Profiling - When someone makes an assumption based on negative stereotypes

• Ex. A tall, Black man walks into a store and the employees in the store automatically watch him because they think he might steal

Phrases and Terms to Help Understand History (cont'd)

• Wealth Gap - When one group of people continues to have way more money than other groups of people

• Ex. At the end of 2019, the top 10% of wealthy people had more money than the bottom 50% combined

Even More Info

So look at this...

Say we have $10,000 available

50 people have access to $3,000 ($60 per person)

10 people have access to $7,000 ($700 per person)

Does that seem fair?

Well, this is what the Wealth Gap is like in America