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SW: "Explaining My Depression to my Mother"

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SW: "Explaining My Depression to my Mother"

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*use headphones* Watch the following spoken word and comment below THREE PERSUASIVE STRATEGIES about this spoken word that were effective. Think beyond just the words that are being said.

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Sabrina Benaim - Explaining My Depression to My Mother

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Short Story: "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. 

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Short Story: "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. 

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Read the following narrative and comment below what the focus/theme statement behind this piece could be. Provide three pieces of text evidence that backs up your predicted focus/theme statement.

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This story was first published in 1894 as The Dream of an Hour before being republished under this title in 1895. We encourage students and teachers to use our The Story of An Hour Study Guide and Feminist Literature Study Guide.

Carl Halsoe, Waiting by the Window, 1863

Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.

It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband's friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard's name leading the list of "killed." He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.

She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.

There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.

She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.

There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window.

She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams.

She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought.

There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. But she felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air.

Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will--as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been. When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under the breath: "free, free, free!" The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body.

She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her. A clear and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial. She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome.

There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.

And yet she had loved him--sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!

"Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering.

Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the keyhole, imploring for admission. "Louise, open the door! I beg; open the door--you will make yourself ill. What are you doing, Louise? For heaven's sake open the door."

"Go away. I am not making myself ill." No; she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window.

Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.

She arose at length and opened the door to her sister's importunities. There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory. She clasped her sister's waist, and together they descended the stairs. Richards stood waiting for them at the bottom.

Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of the accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine's piercing cry; at Richards' quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife.

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills.

Earlier, I pointed out that this story was first published in 1894 as The Dream of an Hour before being republished in 1895 as The Story of an Hour. Having read the story, why do you suppose Kate Chopin chose to change that one word? Given societal norms and expecations about women and marriage in 1895, do you see how simply changing a single word in the title may have been an answer to the controversy and criticism that the story received at that time?

The Story of an Hour is one of the stories featured in our collection of Short Stories for High School I and Short Short Stories to read when you have five minutes to indulge yourself reading a great story.

Add The Story of An Hour to your library.

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The Story of An Hour, a Short Story by Kate Chopin.

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Article: "The Argument Against Headphones"

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Article: "The Argument Against Headphones"

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Read the following article and identify two things that made the author's argument strong, and two things that made it weak, citing text evidence to prove your point.

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Not only do they isolate you, but they may also be making you deaf.

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Open Letter: "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King Jr. 

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Open Letter: "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King Jr. 

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Reading the section from the letter given to you. As a whole class, decide what two appeals King uses most effectively in this passage. Then, each group must identify two additional rhetorical devices in the paragraph and LIST THEM BELOW this column.

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*use headphones* This song has two sides being presented. Give two rhetoric devices that each side uses, and explain who you think was more effective in their argument and why.

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Awareness Campaign Video: "Know the Signs of Human Trafficking"

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Awareness Campaign Video: "Know the Signs of Human Trafficking"

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*use headphones* Watch the video below. Comment TWO APPEALS that this video utilized in order to get their message across. Explain how each appeal is used, whether or not you thought they were effective, and why.

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PSA: LEARN the signs of HUMAN TRAFFICKING

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Watch the following clip from the movie "We Are Marshall".  List THREE APPEALS that the coach uses in his speech, with text evidence. Why would he choose those specific appeals for his audience?

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We Are Marshall (3/5) Movie CLIP - We Cannot Lose (2006) HD

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Uses pathos to appeal to emotion about depression
Uses a lot of body language, she has face expressions, uses her hand to communicate and jitters alot.
Talks very loud and fast just like if she had problems with depression.

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alliteration : speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter...
simile: the stinging darts of segregation.

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Enumeratio
"When you have seen hate filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters."

Metaphor
"Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice"

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hyperbole: for years now ive heard the word wait
Amplication: Justice

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Enumeration: "when you have seen hate filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters."
Simile: not as an integrationist or a civil-rights leader but as a fellow clergyman and a Christian brother."

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Martin L. King Jr uses Allusion when references different authority figures. In the letter he says," I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference." With this information he refers to himself as a high figure. MLK also uses a metaphor to describe others. He says," that some noble souls from the ranks o organized religion have broken loose from paralyzing chains." He compares the ideas of others to being in chains. This idea works because it stresses his point.

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Oxymoron- this "wait" as always meant "never".  Antiphrasis - "since you have been influenced by the view which argues against " outsiders coming in" .

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I found a Enumeratio.

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Simile: "Let us hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifter from our fear drenched communities."
Enumeratio: "Hence segregation is not only politically, economically and sociologically unsound, it is morally wrong and sinful..."

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alliteration-stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter
Epanalepsis-organizations across the south

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simile: let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away...
hyperbole: have broken loose from the paralyzing chains of conformity.

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Parallelism: Justice too long delayed is justice denied
Simile: "let us all hope that the dark cloud of clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear drenched communities.

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appeal to emotion: talks about the plane crash
Appeal to reason: talks about how the opponent is just better on paper
Appeal to trust: the coach tells his team to trust him because he knows their heart because hes seen it and lay it all on the line then they cannot lose.

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Strong
1. "According to that report, headphone users who listen to music at high volumes for more than an hour a day risk permanent hearing loss after five years."
2. One in ﬁve teenagers in America can’t hear rustles or whispers, according to a study published in August in The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Weak

1. "...middle-class men began shutting out their families with giant headphones and hi-fi equipment"
2. "This produces sound. If you think about all the recordings, production tricks, conversions and compressions required to turn human voices and acoustic instruments into MP3 signals, and then add the coil-magnet-diaphragm magic in our headphones, it’s amazing that the intensely engineered frankensounds that hit our eardrums when we listen to iPhones are still called music"

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Alexander (Metaphor)
"My dog speaker more eloquently"
I think Alexander was more effective because he is being more disrespectful.
seabury (Epizeuxis)
"shame.. SHAMEEEEE"

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She uses facial expressions, body movements, and tone of voice to represent how passionate she is about the topic and to present her powerful emotions about depression.
She used metaphors and similes to help the listener to help understand how strongly depression affects her.

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1. repetition when she talks about her mom
2. facial expressions
3. similies

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independence is a forbidden pleasure that can be imagined only privately is the theme . one reason to support this she felt independence in her thoughts but she needed to push it away cause it was a pleasure she didn't have . Another example is she felt that independence was now her life it was her. last evidence when Brently returned her joy of that independence was taken away from her.

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strong:
1. "One in five teenages" uses factual evidence
2. "These teenagers exhibit whats known as slight hearing loss" shows the effects of what can happen
weak:
1. "When world war 2 ended" its not relevant because world war two isnt happening anymore
2. "Headphones and earbuds are now usued with mp3 players, mobile phones, tablets, computers & laptops" People already know what headphones are used with

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She uses a metaphor to describe how she is a party that she doesn't want to be at. This is comparing how she feels about herself vs how others perceive her. Her emotion is heard through her voice when talking about herself. Her emotion is also seen through her movements.

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she uses epizeuxis, by repeating "Dear Mom".
She also uses

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Appeal to reason - he states facts such as percentages of population that have been affected by human trafficking.
Appeal to normality - you never know how could be suffering from the issue

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Appeal to reason:  He explains signs of human trafficking like have possessions that they usually cant afford, or a new boyfriend or girlfriend that is older but not b a few years.
Appeal to normality: says that if you see someone changed to a post, you would do something about it. But in the days of the transatlantic stave trade, that would be a normal sight to see.

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Two things that made the argument strong is the facts that were stated. The author used facts and certain dates. “August report reinforces the findings of a 2008 European study of people who habitually blast MP3 players, including iPods and smartphones”

And “The Walkman appeared in 1979, the invention of Sony, and headphones became part of a walking outfit.” They are strong because theyre facts. Arguments that make them weak is all of the fluff.

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Appeal to reason: States facts about how slavery or human trafficking is still around
Appeal to normality: talks about sudden changes i normal behavior can be a sign.

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STRONG: he uses a good hook to get people reading... and his evidence is strong.
WEAK: some of it is hard to understand... and bad topic cuz i dont agree.

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1. appeal to emotion: "plane crash that took their lives were so severe"
2. appeal to reason "bigger, faster, better, more experience"
3. appeal to trust " they dont know your heart, i do"\

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The farmer tells the Congress that he is disappointed in their action by repeated "for shame". (Enumeratio)

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appeal to emotion: talking about the plane crash at the beginning
appeal to reason: Says the other team is bigger and pretty much better in every way
appeal to trust: "if you do that you cannot lose"

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He uses effects and facts to help his argument. The facts to support is argument make it stronger.(medical issues and signs) He also uses real life examples to help his argument.(appeal to reason) then he uses the appeal to normality to explain that it could happen to anyone.

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Independence is not guaranteed.
"Free! Body and soul free!"

"Go away. I am not making myself ill."

"of the joy that kills."

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simile one day it is as small as a firefly in the palm of a bear
Epizeuxis Repeating mom