How to Read like a Writer: Actively and with Intention

"How to Read like a Writer" by Mike Bunn
Use THIS DOC  as a guide to your reading of this article.  Must be filled out on time, completely and independently to receive ANY points for this assignment!
Go to TIME Magazine opinion articles to choose a reading that interests you for the final task on this doc.

"How to Mark a Book" by Mortimer Adler
Read this article about "marking a book" and then compare this info. to ideas given by Mike Bunn about how to read like a writer.
Then, devise your own method for "marking" what you are reading.  This should be an individualized approach, according to the things you want to notice that an author is doing within his/her writing to achieve a certain purpose.  Write down this personal approach and be prepared to "mark" a reading passage you are given in class starting on Tuesday, 1/31.

THESE READINGS AND NOTES WILL BE DUE ON
 MONDAY, JANUARY 30.

Additionally, as you study your vocabulary words, consider these resources to get to know the words more:
Parallelism
Zeugma
Chiasmus
Antithesis
Antimetabole

Welcome to class!

Welcome to class AP scholars!  In my absence this class period, you will be working on:

1. Completing your vocabulary quiz--turn in to the sub when done.

2.  Multiple choice test corrections-- answer sheets on clipboard at front of classroom.  Remember, test corrections will count on questions completed within the first 60 minutes only.  

3.  Please go to the description of the To Kill a Mockingbird essay response linked here:

     3rd hour TKM responses

     6th hour TKM responses

     In preparation for tomorrow's class period, please prepare a plan for the essay response.

     The analysis of the 3 quotations should include a brief SOAPSTone analysis for each quote.

     The rhetorical analysis of Harper Lee's writing style should be planned similarly to the plan       completed for Eudora Welty's essay response written last week.

Tomorrow, please bring your To Kill a Mockingbird book to class, as well as your memoir book and Everyday Use textbook.

     

    

     

Vocabulary Application answers

1--allusion
2--hyperbole
3--paradox
4-- hyperbole
5--implied metaphor

6--extended metaphor
7--repetition
8--colloquialism
9-- understatement
10-- irony

Model Creative Writing about the importance of words

Use this doc to learn more about the writing assignment you will be doing in response to Welty's writing and your own memories of learning about “the value of reading, learning to read and write, or interpreting the world through language and carefully chosen words." Use this document to help you PLAN this writing assignment.   Final draft of this writing will be due by Thursday, 12/22.  In-class work time will be given during the week.

Other writings to reference by Eudora Welty for this assignment are linked below (your choice on reading these):

"The Making of a Writer: Listening in the Dark" excerpted from One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty (1984)

excerpt from One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty
(this piece contains the "Listening to Words" excerpt that we read together in class, so it gives you a more rounded picture of where these ideas came from for her...)

Vocabulary words

Vocabulary words for this unit are defined in the "Choosing Words" packet and the glossary of Everyday Use.  Use THIS DOCUMENT  to record definitions and do activities to help you to see application of these words (a printed version of this doc was handed out in class).  Please have this packet completed (you do not need to do the last page) by Monday, 12/19-- prepare to show me a start on this packet by Friday, 12/16.

Social issues presentation responses

In response to the presentations delivered by classmates, please write the front of a page about:

1.)  What is one topic that you felt related well to you personally and/or your learning experiences in other classes and why?  Explain with details related to the presentation.  Use your notes for support.

2.) What is one topic that you would like to learn more about and why?  Explain with details related to the presentation.  Use your notes for support.

Chapter 3 beginning notes and activity

Please read the beginning of ch. 3, pp. 57-63 (up to the activity), and take notes on this section.

Next, complete this activity as an application of concepts learned in this part of ch. 3.
This activity will be due on the half day which you have class.