Catch the Moon Pt. 1

Catch the Moon

English 1
(23-24)

By: Judith Ortiz Cofer

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POP QUIZ!!!

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1.​

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refers to the author’s reason for writing a literary text.

2. ​
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is the vantage point from which a story is told. (1st, 2nd, and 3rd Person.)

3. A ​
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is a person or animal who takes part in the action of a story, play,or other literary work.

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Author's purpose

Point of View

Character

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• The attitude that a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character

• The truth about life or main message revealed in a work of literature.

• is the emotional atmosphere of the text.

tone

theme

mood

• tone

• theme

• mood

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• techniques that use language to engage the audience and make the argument more vivid and concrete

• the methods that a speaker uses to persuade an audience

• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

• A comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."

• a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

figurative language

Rhetorical appeals

Personification

Similie

Metaphor

• figurative language

• Rhetorical appeals

• Personification

• Similie

• Metaphor

Open Ended

Think of a time in your life when you got in trouble. What happened? How did that trouble cause you to reflect and change your actions or thoughts afterward?

Before you read...

Catch the Moon

"Catch the Moon" is a short story from the Ortiz's An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio (1995).

• Born in 1952 in Puerto Rico, Ortiz moved to New Jersey four years later. Her family traveled back and forth to Puerto Rico.

• Often writes about the experiences of young people trying to forge their identifies while straddling two or more cultures.

• Writes based on her own experience growing up in the United States and struggling both to assimilate to American culture and honoring the traditions and values of parents who were born and raised elsewhere.

​About the Author: Judith Ortiz Cofer

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Catch the Moon Vocabulary

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• a person in whom power and clout is vested

• done poorly or carelessly

• to cut off the head of (a person or animal)

• being of high quality, especially something from the past

• relating to a young animal, human or other organism

authority

botched

decapitate

vintage

juvenile

• authority

• botched

• decapitate

• vintage

• juvenile

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