Housekeeping: Pease make sure you keep up with your assignments. If there is a ZERO, that means I did not receive the work. Remember that we are using a class blog. You can always copy and paste work from the blog onto a google document and share with me. Don't forget to give sharing permission!
Remember that if you have an illegal absence, your work is considered late.
Missing work. You will see a zero as a holding place, until such time as you turn in your work for a maximum of 75 points.
Independent Practice... class handout. If you are absent, you can simply highlight the following; then copy onto a google doc; then share directly with me, making sure to give me sharing permission. (address above).
For the italicized word, the denoted word, in each of the following eight sentences,
give two potentially positive and two negative connotations. If there is an
unfamiliar word, look it up. See model
I recognized the familiar smell of my roommate's cooking.
delicious
enticing
Stinky
nauseating
2. 2. Scrapple is an inexpensive meal.
3. Kevin's interest in model cars has turned into a hobby.
4.Uncle Henry lives in a hut deep in the woods.
5.My parents are committed conservationists.
6.My old laptop has finally died.
7.The teacher was mildly intimidated by Roland's assertive behavior
Thursday/ Friday. We will be reading and discussing the following text in class.
1. Once we have reviewed the text, please highlight, copy and paste the 11 questions onto a google document.
2.Highlight the correct response. Take your time; this is numerically graded. (Don't hesitate to go back to the original text)
THEN:
3. Look over the vocabulary words and
for Honors classes: Select six of the vocabulary words and write a pithy sentence that clearly encapulates the meaning of the word.
Sample: Getting tickets to the Roland Garros, also known as the Friench Open, is both a difficult and an expensive venture for this prestigious tennis competition.
for Regents classes: Select four of the vocabulary words and write a pithy sentence that clearly encapsulates the meaning of the word.
SERENA WILLIAMS’ CATSUIT CONTROVERSY EVOKES THE BATTLE OVER WOMEN WEARING SHORTS
Vocabulary: please take the time to familiarize yourself with these words prior to reading the text.
1. * controversy-noun disagreement, typically when prolonged, public, and heated
2. * French Open- major tennis tounament held in Paris.
3. *scrutiny(noun) : critical observation or examination
4. * bifurcated (adjective): folded in two (note that the prefix bi means 2) (You also saw this word in the description of the bifurcated bloomers from Tuesday.)
5. * to rankle(verb) : to cause persistent annoyance or resentment
6. * aesthetics (noun): relating to the beautiful
7. *the old guard: the original or long-standing members of a group who are reluctant to accept change
8. *satorial: (adjective) relating to clothing or dress
In this informational text, Deirdre Clemente discusses the controversy* surrounding what Serena Williams, a famous tennis player, decided to wear to the 2018 French Open*. Clemente uses this example to explore the attention that female athletes’ outfits have received historically.
At the French Open, Serena Williams wore a custom-made black catsuit. On Aug. 24, the president of the French Tennis Federation said the outfit “wouldn’t be back.” It “went too far,” he continued. It didn’t “respect the game and the place.”
Among Williams’ defenders, the pushback was swift — the decision indicative of how female athletes face more scrutiny and are held to outdated dress standards.
[3]As a historian of the American fashion industry, I’m not surprised when an outfit worn by a female athlete generates outrage. I thought of Suzanne Lenglen, the French tennis star of the late 1910s who shocked onlookers with her knee-length tennis dress. Coincidentally, Stade Roland Garros, the stadium where Serena wore her suit during the French Open, has a court named after Lenglen.
This is simply the most recent chapter of a centurylong debate over the place of informality and immodesty in our dress: how short can that skirt be? Should the first lady be able to don a tank top? What about wearing sneakers to prom?
[5]Sportswear, which can be both informal and immodest, has served as a flashpoint in these debates — particularly for women.
In 1936, a sportswriter named Paul Gallico argued that female athletes and their clothing were offensive.
Women who play sports, he wrote, “stick out places when they play, wear funny clothes, get out of breath or perspire.” He didn’t like that because “it’s a lady’s business to look beautiful, and there are hardly any sports in which she seems able to do it.”
Nothing, it seemed, upset people more than women in shorts. Starting in the late 1920s, shorts became the much-contested replacement for bloomers, the puffy-legged, bifurcated garment worn under long skirts. Women who did wear athletic garb were supposed to keep out of the public eye because it was deemed unfeminine and, yes, immodest.
Female tennis players were on the frontlines of the battle for public acceptance of shorts. Even though tennis industry officials and country club muckety mucks wrote dress codes that outlawed shorts, many women refused to adhere to the rules and continued showing up to play wearing them.
[10]Some were thrown off the courts. But it’s hard to enforce dress codes when everybody’s doing it. Not surprisingly, this really rankled* the old guard.*
“If you gals really knew how cute you look in a well-cut dress, you wouldn’t hanker to wear shorts,” one etiquette writer grumbled in the 1936 book, “Co-Ediquette: Poise and Popularity for Every Girl.” “Of course, you’ve got to be comfortable, ah, me! Even if you have to insult the aesthetic* sense of men to do it?”
Most women shrugged — and kept on wearing shorts, on and off the court.
In time, shorts as hiking wear, shorts as gardening garb and shorts as loungewear became increasingly common. It seems the old guard had been worn down — or simply died off.
[15]By the end of the 1930s, younger women were acknowledging a shift in attitudes. “American women live 24 hours a day in sports clothes,” one college student told the Boston Post. “Husbands no longer come home and deliver stern lectures upon finding their wives cooking supper in shorts. It’s just taken for granted.”
While some husbands may have skipped the stern lectures, it took three more decades for shorts to fully reach widespread acceptance.
But in tennis, notions of immodesty and informality die hard. When female tennis players such as Billie Jean King wore very short, gored skirts and sleeveless polo shirts in the 1970s, they were criticized for their “radical” outfits. Time and again, the powers-that-be in tennis push back on immodesty, and the players push forward towards personal choice and — dare we say — personal style.
So, we’ve seen this all before. New stuff — never-seen-before stuff — has long spelled trouble for female athletes and sparked public outcry.
[19]Today, the satorial* standards of what you can and can’t wear in certain settings have changed so radically that institutions can’t keep up. You almost feel sorry for the French official who announced the ban on the catsuit. In the big picture, he won’t do anything to stop the crawl of social change.
[20]And how did Serena Williams respond to being chastised for wearing her black catsuit?
She simply showed up a few days later to win U.S. Open matches wearing a tulle tutu.
French Open 2021: Serena Williams vs. Irina-Camelia Begu | First Round Highlights | NBC Sports
SERENA WILLIAMS’ CATSUIT CONTROVERSY EVOKES THE BATTLE OVER WOMEN WEARING SHORTSBY
BY DEIRDRE CLEMENTE
We will be reading the informational text by Deirdre Clemente tomorrow, where she discusses the controversy surrounding what Serena Williams, a famous tennis player, who decided to wear a cat sut to the 2018 French Open.
Our learning targets:
1. to practice how an author's writing style reveals their point of view
2. to understand how diction, that is word choic, contributes to the power or persuasiveness of a text
3. to understand how figurative language devices contribute to the power or persuasiveness of the text.
4. to understand how point of view, word choice and figurative language devices are all interconnected.
Terms to review:
1. Point of view: first person, second person, third person
(limited / omniscient)
2. figurative language: imagery- all 5 senses and sometimes a sixth!
Point of view is a reflection of the opinion an individual from real life or fiction has. Examples of point of view belong to one of these three major kinds:
First person point of view involves the use of either of the two pronouns “I” or “we.”
“I felt like I was getting drowned with shame and disgrace.”
Second person point of view employs the pronoun “you.”
“Sometimes you cannot clearly discern between anger and frustration.”
Third person point of view uses pronouns like “he,” “she,” “it,” “they,” or a name.
“ Stewart is a principled man. He acts by the book and never lets you deceive him easily.”
VERY IMPORTANT TO NOTE LIMITED OR OMNISCIENT (all knowing)
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