Read the following essay, "Superman and Me" by Sherman Alexie.
"Superman and Me"

It is both an eye-opening account of what life was like for an intelligent child on an Indian reservation and a skillful rendering of the moments surrounding language acquisition, the spark for reading and writing, and the influence on a child of a well-loved parent.  Use any or all of these avenues for discussion of the essay.

 Also comment on what rhetorical devices Alexie uses in the essay.  For example, by using the analogy of a paragraph to a fence, Alexie is providing a visual connection that all readers can understand in order to express his moment of epiphany that opened him to the world of reading: an understanding that words "worked together for a common purpose".  The use of this visual analogy between a paragraph and a fence lends meaning to the extension of his analogy in the remainder of paragraph 3.  As Alexie explains his understanding of the reservation as a paragraph within the country, his home and neighborhood as paragraphs on the reservation, and each member of his family as a separate paragraph yet part of a larger "essay of seven paragraphs," the reader grasps Alexie's inherent desire to write and his identity as a writer.  This is just one example.  You should find and cite at least two. Do your best not to repeat the devices used by other students.

Come Holy Spirit!

YIPPEEEE! It is confirmation weekend!  You officially have a vacation from the blog so that you can really celebrate this important sacrament.  All I ask is that you listen to this presentation some time before you get confirmed on Sunday.  When you have finished, just log on and type, DONE.
Congratulations to all of you!  I love it!
Mrs. Messineo
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/810680/LH27_9_Dr.%20Pitre_Confirmation-The%20Sacrament%20of%20Evangelization%20and%20Martyrdom.mp3

It is around 40 minutes.

Spy Day

Click on this link and listen to it.  It is approximately 50 minutes long.  After listening to it, explain how the presentation is structured as an argument.  In some arguments, the author's goal is to get someone to do something.  What is he trying to get his audience to do?  After completing that portion of the blog, list 3 things that you consider talents given to you from God.


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/810680/lh17-6_gangland_to_promised_land.mp3