5th Week - November 9 through November 15
"I cans:"
I can write using parallel structure.
I can write using antithesis.
I can write using subordinate clauses to introduce two ideas.
I can define what I believe integrity to be.
I can identify tone, audience, puropse and key strategies in autobiographical
essays.
Homework: Read four pieces this week. Identify tone, audience, purpose and key strategies in three autobiographical essays. Identify structure in an argumentative essays; define "integrity" along with Carter, identify an example which supports his case and one which might rebutt his case.
EACH NIGHT (Monday-Thursday) resive one paragraph of your Postman prompt. USE PARALLEL STRUCTURE (underlined) and ANTHITHESIS (circled) and TWO SUBORDINATE CLAUSES (boxed) in this revision. Monday - 1st paragraph. Tuesday - 2nd paragraph Wednesday - 3rd paragraph. Thursday - 4th paragraph and conclusion.
Readings: In order, one per night ALL in 50 Essays: Stephen L. Carter's Insufficiency of Honesty (MONDAY), Judith Oritz Cofer's The Myth of Latin Women: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria (TUESDAY), Bharati Mukerjee's Two Ways to Belong in America (WEDNESDAY) and Bernard Cooper's A Clack of Tiny Sparks (THURSDAY).
Writing: USE PARAGRAPH FORMAT to do each of these responses.
For Monday's Carter piece Identify structure in an argumentative essays; define "integrity" along with Carter, identify an example which supports his case and one which might rebutt his case. USE PARALLEL STRUCTURE (underlined) and ANTHITHESIS (circled) and TWO SUBORDINATE CLAUSES (boxed) in this response.
For Tuesday's, Wednesday's and Thursday's readings Idetify tone, audience, purpose and key strategies in three autobiographical essays. USE PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE AND COMPLETE SENTENCES. USE PARALLEL STRUCTURE (underlined) and ANTHITHESIS (circled) and TWO SUBORDINATE CLAUSES (boxed) in this response.
In class: Monday - vocabulary is given; read around of model essays; write in parallel structure, antithesis, and subordination.
Tuesday - Discuss the reading. Mandala project is explained, discussed and planned.
Wednesday - Veterans Day. NO CLASS but there is HOMEWORK! Read and gather Mandala materials.
Thursday - Reading and note taking in "Rise to Realism" in ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE. Mr. Jollymore meets with writers.
Friday - Marking period FINAL for writing. An AP style prompt.
Vocabulary The 4th and final list for the marking period.
Quizzes: The standard quiz for vocabulary.
Testing: Friday - writing final. Next week vocabulary final and reading final. Review all readings.
