The 5 Canons

Happy Thursday, Lovelies -

Below you will find the notes you need for The 5 Canons.  Please make sure you copy the info down into your class notes...And sorry it has to be done like this.  Y'all know how I feel about mindless staring at the computer and calling it teaching.

Invention: have something to say instead of having to say something; develop and generate ideas

Arrangement:  put ideas together for effect; what is WHERE and WHY? ***key to success on AP exam

Style: text to itself; specific word choice (diction)

Memory: oral culture in Aristotle's era - you would memorize the speech or text; now we're a print and media culture BUT you need to know HOW to access the information you need and the VALUE of knowing things (culture literacy).  This canon is basically SAS so pay attention and wake up.

Delivery:  how does the text appear on the page; graphics and visuals

Put this info IN YOUR MIND.  I remember them with the acronym of I.M.S.A.D.

Your job for today/tonight is to Adler up the "Haiku History" text and pay close attention to how the 5 Canons are alive and well in Spike Gillespie's piece.

Also, don't forget that SAS #2 is tomorrow.  BE PREPARED.

Love and Light (and happy almost Friday!!),
Beltran

Today's Song: Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"