Authorial choices

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Spread out!

Do not sit together, spread out through the classroom.

You will need pen, paper and your telephone this lesson.

(This is not a test)

Authorial choices

This is not a quiz

This is a formative quiz, i.e., it is not for a grade.  It is for me to see where each student stands in understanding what authorial choices are and how to discuss them in a Paper 1, Paper 2, Individual Oral or Higher Level Essay.  

Instructions

You will have two minutes to read through and make notes about the authorial choices on each slide, which will contain an excerpt from a literary or non-literary text.   Then you will have two minutes to write down as many authorial choices that you have identified, together with the effect you think the author wants them to have.  

We will start with some texts you have already studied. 

Slide 1 

You have two minutes to read the passage on the next slide and note down all authorial choices that you see, as well as the effect you think the writer intended them to have.  Then you have two minutes to write your answers into LessonUp.  Only write answers when you can identify the choice and its effect.

Slide 1

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

Slide 1: List authorial choices
together with their intended
effect. You have two minutes.

Slide 2

You have two minutes to read the passage on the next slide and note down all authorial choices that you see, as well as the effect you think the writer intended them to have.  Then you have two minutes to write your answers into LessonUp.  Only write answers when you can identify the choice and its effect.

Slide 2

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much.  They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did...in fact, they admired it.  They simply believed in that fundamental American promise that, even if you don't start out with much, if you work hard and do what you're supposed to do, then you should be able to build a decent life for yourself and an even better life for your kids and grandkids.

Slide 2: List authorial choices
together with their intended
effect. You have two minutes.

Slide 3 

You have two minutes to read the passage on the next slide and note down all authorial choices that you see, as well as the effect you think the writer intended them to have.  Then you have two minutes to write your answers into LessonUp.  Only write answers when you can identify the choice and its effect.

Slide 3

When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don’t see any American dream. We’ve experienced only the American nightmare. We haven’t benefited from America’s democracy. We’ve only suffered from America’s hypocrisy. 

Slide 3: List authorial choices
together with their intended
effect. You have two minutes.

Slide 4 

In this excerpt from Othello, Cassio has just been fired by Othello for being drunk on duty and getting into a fight.  He is complaining to Iago that he's lost his good name, his reputation.  Read Iago's answer and list authorial choices with their intended effects.  You have two minutes.

Slide 4

As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving: you have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser. What, man! there are ways to recover the general again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice, even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he's yours.

Slide 4: List authorial choices
together with their intended
effect. You have two minutes.

Slide 5 

You have two minutes to study this page from Persepolis and identify any authorial choices you see and their effects.  

Slide 5

Slide 5: List authorial choices
together with their intended
effect. You have two minutes.

Slide 6 

For this course, the IB also considers photographs to be (non-literary) texts.  This next photograph is by Hosam Katan.  You have two minutes to study it and write down any authorial choices you see and their effect on the viewer.  Then you will have two minutes to put your answer into LessonUp.

Slide 6

Slide 6: List authorial choices
together with their intended
effect. You have two minutes.

Slide 7 

Obviously, advertisements are also (non-literary) text types. 

What authorial choices can you see in this ad and what are their effects?  Once again, 2 minutes to study and write down, 2 minutes to upload to LessonUp 

Slide 7

Slide 7: List authorial choices
together with their intended
effect. You have two minutes.

Slide 8 

Song lyrics are also texts that can be studied as (literary) works.  What authorial choices do you see in this fragment of a song, and what are the effects?

Mother, mother

There's too many of you crying

Brother, brother, brother

There's far too many of you dying

You know we've got to find a way

To bring some lovin' here today

Father, father

We don't need to escalate

You see, war is not the answer

For only love can conquer hate

You know we've got to find a way

To bring some lovin' here today

Slide 8: List authorial choices
together with their intended
effect. You have two minutes.

Slide 9 

Graphic novels are literary works.  Collections of cartoons and comics are classified as non-literary bodies of work.  Again, you have 2 minutes to study this slide and then 2 minutes to put in your response.  

Slide 9

Slide 9: List authorial choices
together with their intended
effect. You have two minutes.