Peer edit of rhetorical analysis essay
Self-Analysis of Synthesis Essay
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Today's lesson
Welcome to class!
Due to unforeseen health circumstances at our house, your synthesis presentations will be postponed until tomorrow.
For today's class period, you should do the following:
1. Please send me your characterization and narration response journals (via email or put in the inbox).
2. Watch and enjoy the documentary "Hey Boo" all about To Kill a Mockingbird and the author Harper Lee.
3. For homework, you should complete the SPEAKER response, approximately the same length as the responses completed last night.
Due to unforeseen health circumstances at our house, your synthesis presentations will be postponed until tomorrow.
For today's class period, you should do the following:
1. Please send me your characterization and narration response journals (via email or put in the inbox).
2. Watch and enjoy the documentary "Hey Boo" all about To Kill a Mockingbird and the author Harper Lee.
3. For homework, you should complete the SPEAKER response, approximately the same length as the responses completed last night.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Happy 2014!
Hope you are staying warm and enjoying a few extra days of break!
When we return, we will be starting with presentations for our synthesis essay projects.
You will have time to meet with group members and review presentation plan for our first few minutes.
We will also be working on some discussion pieces and responses to To Kill a Mockingbird throughout the remainder of the week.
Tuesday, 1/14, will be our long awaited vocabulary quiz. Here are the words again, if you would like to get a jump start on review. The last five words are from Everyday Use (the striped book), pp. 79-81, so please read about those, and we will talk more about all words this week:
When we return, we will be starting with presentations for our synthesis essay projects.
You will have time to meet with group members and review presentation plan for our first few minutes.
We will also be working on some discussion pieces and responses to To Kill a Mockingbird throughout the remainder of the week.
Tuesday, 1/14, will be our long awaited vocabulary quiz. Here are the words again, if you would like to get a jump start on review. The last five words are from Everyday Use (the striped book), pp. 79-81, so please read about those, and we will talk more about all words this week:
1. Persona
2. Efferent reading
3. Aesthetic reading
4. Stance
5. Irony
6. Implied metaphor
7. Simile
8. Hyperbole
9. Paradox
10. Colloquialism
11. Understatement
12. Euphemism
13. Didactic
14. Repetition
15. Parallelism
16. Allusion
17. Dialect
18. Repertoire
19. Scholarly language
20. Standard language21. Scheme22. Trope23. Zeugma24. Antimetabole25. Antithesis
Friday, December 20, 2013
Happy holidays!
Hope you have a great Christmas break!
Read To Kill a Mockingbird over break, no annotating required.
Enjoy reading this classic... it is honestly my favorite book ever and I am so happy you will get to experience it also! :)
We will do synthesis essay presentations on the Wed. we return from break, so you will have time to practice and finalize plans with your group during class. See you in 2014!
Read To Kill a Mockingbird over break, no annotating required.
Enjoy reading this classic... it is honestly my favorite book ever and I am so happy you will get to experience it also! :)
We will do synthesis essay presentations on the Wed. we return from break, so you will have time to practice and finalize plans with your group during class. See you in 2014!
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Synthesis Presentations
For this short presentation, you will work in groups of 3-4 to:
1. Choose which synthesis essay prompt on reading you would like to respond to.
2. Discuss the various stances that could be taken in response.
3. Decide on your group's claim and develop a thesis statement.
4. Choose and justify the sources which you would use to support your position and to develop your counterargument.
5. Outline the main points and supporting details from the various referenced sources.
6. Decide who will present which aspect, so that each person in the group is speaking at least once.
7. Present on Friday! If you will not be present on Friday, your assignment is to write the synthesis essay.
1. Choose which synthesis essay prompt on reading you would like to respond to.
2. Discuss the various stances that could be taken in response.
3. Decide on your group's claim and develop a thesis statement.
4. Choose and justify the sources which you would use to support your position and to develop your counterargument.
5. Outline the main points and supporting details from the various referenced sources.
6. Decide who will present which aspect, so that each person in the group is speaking at least once.
7. Present on Friday! If you will not be present on Friday, your assignment is to write the synthesis essay.
Friday, December 13, 2013
Weekend work...
This weekend, your assignment is three-fold:
1. Read and take notes on ch. 5, paying close attention to vocabulary words you run into along the way.
2. Please read each of the articles linked below, and determine the claim and implications of each article:
"We Can't Teach Students to Love Reading" by Alan Jacobs , from The Chronicle for Higher Education, July 2011
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read" by Francine Prose, from Harper Magazine, 1999
3. Final assignment is to discuss with your parents how you learned to read. Since they will probably have a stronger recollection of this experience than you do, ask them about how you learned to read, what types of questions you asked, what you were most interested in as far as particular books, stories you liked to be told (even if they were not read to you, just told by a family member), or what your favorite reading spots were when you were younger.
This is meant to be a fun activity, not a stressor! If you are uncomfortable asking your parents, or if they do not have strong memories of the occasion, try to remember for yourself a time when you read something that made your imagination take flight or just made you feel alive and interested in another world.
Please bring these stories and experiences with you to class on Monday to share (they need not be written down, just committed to memory well enough to be retold), and, if possible, the book or a few books that you enjoyed reading as a child!
Thanks and have a fun weekend!
1. Read and take notes on ch. 5, paying close attention to vocabulary words you run into along the way.
2. Please read each of the articles linked below, and determine the claim and implications of each article:
"We Can't Teach Students to Love Reading" by Alan Jacobs , from The Chronicle for Higher Education, July 2011
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read" by Francine Prose, from Harper Magazine, 1999
3. Final assignment is to discuss with your parents how you learned to read. Since they will probably have a stronger recollection of this experience than you do, ask them about how you learned to read, what types of questions you asked, what you were most interested in as far as particular books, stories you liked to be told (even if they were not read to you, just told by a family member), or what your favorite reading spots were when you were younger.
This is meant to be a fun activity, not a stressor! If you are uncomfortable asking your parents, or if they do not have strong memories of the occasion, try to remember for yourself a time when you read something that made your imagination take flight or just made you feel alive and interested in another world.
Please bring these stories and experiences with you to class on Monday to share (they need not be written down, just committed to memory well enough to be retold), and, if possible, the book or a few books that you enjoyed reading as a child!
Thanks and have a fun weekend!
Thursday, December 12, 2013
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