Weekend Homework 9/8

Juniors 

Watch the two performances of the Star Spangled Banner linked below. Then, compare them, using the rhetorical situation framework that you learned in class yesterday using the following questions: 

-What is the context of each situation? 
-What is the specific occasion? 
-Who is the speaker? (This should be a more detailed answer than the name of the artist and may require brief research.) 
-Who are the audiences, both intended and unintended? 
-What is the purpose? 
-What is the relationship between the purpose and audience in this situation? 
-How do the two performances compare and contrast? Cite at least three details from each performance in your answer. How does this comparison alter the meaning of the "Star-Spangled Banner?" 

*Bonus questions - How would you describe the tone of each performance? 

Whitney Houston Performing the Star-Spangled Banner
Jimi Hendrix Performing the Star Spangled Banner

Seniors 

Repeat the process we did in class on Friday. You can use a timer or give yourself more time. It is up to you. 

1. Draw what you think of when you think of a hero. (4 minutes) 
2. List times in your life when "did the RIGHT thing" (1.5 minutes) 
3. Circle the memory that is clearest in your mind. 
4. Start a new page, and write up that moment, using the following questions to develop the narrative. Spend five minutes on 20, writing it up in the first-person, present tense. 

Use these questions to help you write the narrative - the actual telling of the story’s events.

Where are you? What time of day or night does it seem to be? What season does it seem to be? How do you know? Where does the light seem to be coming from? What kind of light is it? What’s the temperature like? What does the air smell like? What are you doing? Is there anyone else in the image with you? What are they doing? What does he/she look like and say? Why are you there? What are some of the sounds you can hear? What are some of the things you can see? What’s directly in front of you? If you turn your head to the right, what’s there? If you turn your head to the left, what’s there? What’s behind you? What’s below and around your feet? What’s above your head? There’s something you haven’t noticed yet. What is it? (It can be very small.

20. If you wrote the answers to the above questions as a list. Rewrite in the first person PRESENT tense, as if it is happening to you right now.