Good Monday to you all! Hope you had a great weekend. I enjoyed going to the LA Opera and watching one of the most beautiful of all opera's, Puccini's Madam Butterfly! If you would like to share an example watch this clip. For your Final you need to know the following vocabulary: Persuasion Argument Opinion Assertion Evidence Primary Source Secondary Source Expository Generalization Elaborate Connotation Denotation Compare Contrast Synthesize Paraphrase Irony: Situational, Verbal, Dramatic Counter Claim Opposing View Metaphor Be able to write a summary of Paper Clips. What was the principal's original idea and how did that grow? Be able to compare and contrast the characters Napoleon and Snowball from George Orwell's Animal Farm. What was the fatal flaw that caused the Titanic to sink in Walter Lord's A Night to Remember?