1. Enter Sokol and/or Gannon. Post what you entered on the blog (example: I entered a short story in Sokol and two poems for Gannon).
2. Put work from this marking period in your portfolio. Finish any incomplete work. Monday is last day of marking period for you.
3. David Sedaris: On writing: Read.
http://ydrstorytelling.blogspot.com/2012/04/david-sedaris-on-writing-write-everyday.html
4. Tricks for Great First Sentences: Read.
http://thecopybot.com/sedaris-first-sentence/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Talk_Pretty_One_Day
DISCUSSION:
Think, pair, share:
Look at Prezi regarding "Go, Carolina":
https://prezi.com/wxtfo3kql7pe/david-sedaris-go-carolina/
Now do a similar literary analysis of "Genetic Engineering." Post your response on the blog.
1. What is the author's PURPOSE (examine the THEME) in writing this essay?
2. ETHOS, PATHOS, LOGOS: How does Sedaris use ethos, pathos, and logos in this essay?
3. What other strategies does he employ such as satire and wordplay?
I entered a poem for Sokol and two poems for Gannon
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ReplyDelete"Genetic Engineering" is a specific memoir about the author's father. The purpose of the essay is to create a greater understanding of his father, and unravel how introspective the man was. The themes throughout this essay was the rocky relationship between a parent and a child, and finding an appreciation for your parent when they reveal to you one of the many other facets of their personality you don't necessarily see all the time.
ReplyDeleteSedaris uses pathos in how he tells his story of his father, and the reader can feel a kinship with him in how his relationship with his father, as most of his siblings have and as most children have with their parents. He establishes his ethos with his father being the topic and how a child will know the most about their parent than anyone else. His logos is in how he structures his essay, with making fun of his father, disclosing how estranged his feels from his father, and then introducing a better side of his father in order to humanize him a bit.
Other strategies the author uses is his tone to make the essay a bit more personal, and more informal in order to reel his audience in. His use of diction helps establish such tone, and the queerness of how he describes certain situations that make his work unique. For example, how Sedaris transitioned from swimming to tanning as described as: “No longer interested in the water, we joined our mother… and dedicated ourselves to the higher art of tanning” (Sedaris 35).