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The War on Halloween political cartoons

Friday, October 31

Happy Halloween!

Target: to practice another sentence pattern--Yippee!

1. Vocabulary Test #5--Correct

2. Sentence Pattern #4:  Asyndeton and Polysyndeton

Period 1 padlet: http://padlet.com/jenlamonte/93x0bec270z8

Period 2 padlet: http://padlet.com/jenlamonte/2k8vukep55db

3. Feedback on thesis statements...

Thursday RTI: Rhetorical Analysis

Here is the doc for today's RTI:http://goo.gl/RjsYG7

If you scored a 3 or below on the Gatsby essay, please plan on coming!

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Politics Of Ebola political cartoons

Thursday, October 30

Target:  to examine your essay with a partner and see it with "new eyes" in order to REVISE.

1.  Exchange essays (or share on google) with your seat partner.  

Write your responses to these questions in "comment" form on google docs or on a half sheet of binder paper to give back to the writer:

• What works in the essay so far?
• What doesn't? 
• Any suggestions for what they might need to ADD, CUT or MOVE?

2.  Self-Reflection FORM

Can I attach responses so we can all learn from each other?

FINAL DRAFT is due MONDAY.

TOMORROW:  Vocabulary Test and Sentence Pattern #4!!!!

Wednesday, October 29

Target:  to examine the strengths and weaknesses in your writing of a Rhetorical Analysis so that you can improve next time...

1. Pass back Gatsby essays.

2. Style Sheet with student samples of effective writing that

• develops an insightful analysis with APPROPRIATE evidence and CONVINCING explanations
• the quotations are used within the analysis instead of overwhelming the paragraph by being too long.  Remember to hone in on particular words or phrases; RARELY, an entire sentence or two.
• demonstrates control over diction, syntax and form.

3. RTI list for Thursday or next week

4. Review student samples from Definition Essay and your reflections from yesterday.

Tuesday, October 28

Target:  to choose one Definition essay as a model, study it closely, and begin to write!

1. Read "Identity's Edge" in Bedford Reader, page 541.

2. Fill out Definition essay handout.  TURN IT IN at the end of the period.  

Monday, October 27

Target: to practice analyzing the Definition Method of writing 

1. Finish analysis of Gloria Naylor's essay.

2. Read "I Am a Cripple" by  Nancy Mairs and do SOAPSTone.

3. Read student samples afterwards and discuss their rhetorical moves.

HOMEWORK:  Finish reading all the essays in the Definition packet for class tomorrow. Bring them with you. Tomorrow you will begin work on your drafting your definition essay.

Friday, October 24

Target: to read closely and critically two examples of the definition method

SYNTAX REVIEW:  What is a PERIODIC, CUMULATIVE, and INVERTED sentence?  Why do we use them?

Use this padlet to post your model: http://padlet.com/jenlamonte/gvf8fdowu5vo

2nd period: http://padlet.com/jenlamonte/4wj371qf5zzw

• Read "The Meanings of a Word" and work on the chart together.
• Read "Identity's Edge" on your own.  Review Meaning and Writing Strategy questions at the end. 

HOMEWORK:  Read through the Definition packet, annotating all the models of the Definition Essay.  Your first draft is due on THURSDAY. 

Thursday, October 23

Target:  to introduce the Definition Essay method of writing

• Read and take notes on page 508-512 in The Bedford Reader (see pdf in pages if absent)
• Read "The Meanings of a Word" by Gloria Naylor

Here is a copy of the prompt so you have a heads up for next week. 

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Hong Kong Protesters political cartoons

Wednesday, October 22

Target:  to introduce the DEFINITION mode of writing.

1. Vocabulary Lesson 5 words & an SAT practice.  cards are here

2. Definition mode in a Visual Text:  An advertisement

3. Read in The Bedford Reader: "The Meanings of a Word" by Gloria Naylor.  Answer the questions in the back in your groups from Monday. Use this document.  Make one copy and share it with your group members so you can all work on it at the same time.  Each member should take one question.

Tuesday, October 21

Target:  What are the most important rhetorical moves (2-3) that Ascher makes in "The Box Man" that help her emphatically and persuasively communicate her tone and viewpoint?

1. Share your thesis statement with your partner. 

2. Rhetorical Choices:  example/ juxtaposition of contrasting examples/ diction----TONE/ structure/allusions/syntax: intentional fragments &  isolation

3.  40 minutes: Write your essay analyzing the effect of those 2-3 moves in the essay---connect each move to the same viewpoint and/or tone. 

Monday, October 20

Target:  To share the effect of the stylistic elements you found reading "The Box Man."  

1. Get in groups.

2. Quietly reread "The Box Man."  Annotate as you notice new elements: syntax, diction, structure

3. Share and discuss the elements you noticed in the three passages and their effects.  Add to your charts.

4.Tone question: http://goo.gl/Xn34EI

5. Examples of excellent thesis statements from the Ernie Pyle analysis:

Ernie Pyle utilizes concrete language, stark imagery, and euphemism to illustrate the vast destruction and expendable waste of war.  --Ava Flaherty

Ernie Pyle uses horrific diction, extremely effectively, to portray to the American people that everything in war is expendable: tanks, boats, jeeps, lives, and everything gets destroyed. Nothing is left untouched. ---Cole LeTourneau

Ernie Pyle is trying to communicate the tragedy [in the accumulation of small scale losses].  He is conveying that while Americans won [the battle on D-day], we lost much more than necessary, as the American citizens continued their lives while men lost theirs, or at least everything in it.  Pyle focuses on the small things because it creates a bigger emotional [impact] on the reader by helping them relate [to the dead men as fellow human beings].  We paid a price for entrance into Europe. ---Lottie Knippen

6. Compose a thesis for the analysis of this essay.  How does she use stylistic elements and rhetorical devices to achieve her purpose?

Thursday, October 16

Target:  To practice finding important rhetorical devices, such as DICTION, IMAGERY, DETAIL, SYNTAX, STRUCTURE and TONE in two essays and to write a thesis for RHETORICAL ANALYSIS essay.

• Reread "The Santa Ana Winds" by Joan Didion.
•  In table groups, share your SOAPS and annotations for the Joan Didion piece.  Is there consensus? Did you notice the same devices? Share out with entire class.
• Thesis Statements:  http://goo.gl/bhCJ3h
• Read "The Horrible Waste of War" by WWII war reporter Ernie Pyle.  
• Discuss the use of STRUCTURE and  ABSTRACT and CONCRETE language.
• Complete SOAPS and as your exit ticket today, a thesis statement for your analysis of this essay. 

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Nobel Peace Prize political cartoons

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Tuesday, October 14

Target:  To share Analysis of "The Chase"

Open up your doc from yesterday.  Share it with me.

Share your answers with the class.

HOMEWORK: Read "The Santa Ana Winds" by Joan Didion  

Try annotating text, looking for DETAILS, DICTION, SYNTAX, TONE, ORGANIZATION
DO SOAPS, too.

FOR PSAT tomorrow:

·        Students with last name A through O will report to the big gym

·        Students with last name P through Z will report to the small gym

·        Students should arrive on campus at 7:30 and go to their testing location to check in.  Testing will begin at 8:00

·        Please remind students to bring…two number 2 pencils, a graphing or scientific calculator and their photo ID

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Monday, October 13

Target: to Analyze diction, detail (imagery), syntax, and TONE in "The Chase" by Annie Dillard.

• Share definitions with your partner....revise as needed
• Read "The Chase" by Annie Dillard.
• With your proximity group: Fill out this form. 

HOMEWORK:  Finish the form and Study lesson 4 words.  

Friday, October 10

Target:  To give students more tools to talk about TONE.

1. Review SOAPSTone for both NY Times pieces.

2. Review AP list of TONE WORDS (see me if you are absent today).

HOMEWORK:  Look up unknown words and write definitions on the margins of the list for future use.

Thursday, October 9

Target:  more SOAPS practice with a closer look at detail, diction, syntax and essay organization

1. More SOAPS on Two NY Times articles: "The Rich are More Oblivious Than You and Me" and FOR HOMEWORK:  Why Poor Students Struggle



2. TOMORROW: Write a response to either one.  Do you agree with the viewpoint expressed?  How does either text relate or connect to The Great Gatsby?

Wednesday, October 8

Target:  Using SOAPStone to help you analyze rhetorical choices in an essay

1. Reread the essay:  in your notes, complete SOAPStone.

2. Share out.  

3. Vocabulary Lesson 4 words: http://goo.gl/phTJY

Tuesday, October 7

1. REVISING & EDITING:  your in class essay (20 minutes)

SUBVOCALIZE!  Read your paper out loud to yourself.  EDIT.

TRY Adding the three sentence patterns to your in class essay (see the board)

Please highlight or underline them so I can see them clearly!

2. A return to SOAPSTONE

"Why I Want a Wife" 

Subject --What is the article about?  What are the main topics dealt with in the piece?

                    

Occasion--What occasion or event motivated the writer to compose this piece?
     a sense of exigence: something that needed to be done, some gap or lack that needed to be addressed by writing. 

Audience-For whom is this piece designed?  Whom is the author trying to reach?

Purpose-  What is the writer's purpose in this piece?What viewpoint is she conveying?

Speaker--Who wrote the piece?  What makes her knowledgeable and reputable?

Tone-How would you characterize the overall tone of the piece?  Is it serious, humorous, respectful, sneering, etc?  What emotions appear in the piece?  Does the tone change?  Where?

DETAILS

DICTION

SYNTAX

ORGANIZATION

Class notes

Friday, October 3

Vocabulary Test #3 and SYNTAX

SENTENCE PATTERN #3: General Idea: Specific Example

1st Period Examples of Sentence Pattern #3:http://goo.gl/lBtBMP

2nd period examples: http://goo.gl/T0DGk5

Thursday, October 2

TARGET: to review Rhetorical Analysis style sheet for assessment on Monday and review Fitzgerald's big ideas for the last time

1. Last STYLE SHEET for Rhetorical Analysis

2. Group docs from yesterday.   Copy and paste the theme statement from your conversation about happiness and values here: http://goo.gl/hFb0rJ

TOMORROW:  Sentence Pattern #3  and Vocabulary Test, Lesson 3

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