Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Terms Test Vocab.com

Thank you to the student who made this terms test vocab.com activity!
Tomorrow we will have a Kahoot review.
https://vocab.com//lists/2030489

HW Due Thurs. 11/30

Complete Euphemisms Organizer. Bring it to class tomorrow.
Here is the video we watched in class. The transcript stops at 4:24. You may watch the rest of the video, but you are only responsible for analyzing the text up until 4:24.
https://ed.ted.com/on/d4tdgXuy#watch

Terms Review Tomorrow.
Terms Test Friday.

Night due Monday 12/2.

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

MLA Citation

For beat report focus on page header, MLA heading, Times New Roman 12 font, double-spaced. SAMPLE MLA PAPER from Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL).

Monday, November 20, 2017

HW Due Tues. 11/20

Due Tues,: Min. 2 pages in journal: Respond to the prompt you were given (printed).

Due Wed.: Vocab.com (Chron, Tempo)

Due Mon. 12/2: your own copy of Night

Opinionated now due Monday 11/27 (day we return from break). No late papers accepted. Please follow all directions, including printing your editorial/op-ed, annotating it, printing and completing SOAPSTone+R, and printing and sharing Beat Report.
Follow MLA Style (Times New Roman 12-point, MLA heading, Page header (Last name page number), double-spaced copy. If you need a new copy of the project description/rubric, please see the top nav bar. You must be signed into your WJPS email account to access the document.

Thursday, November 16, 2017

HW Due Fri. 11/17

Write min. 2 pages in journal: Define propaganda (Oxford Dictionary) and then paraphrase (say in your own words). What do you know about propaganda? Give some examples from real life, history, etc.

Monday, November 13, 2017

HW Due Tues. 11/14

Min. 2 pages: Divide your journal into halves - make a T-chart. Left side titled "text evidence" and right side titled "response/analysis". Be sure to title the page with the text title and author name, and the date of the entry.
Choose evidence from what we have read so far, being careful not to copy full paragraphs but zone in on words, phrases, small pieces of select evidence.
Respond to the text/analyze it in terms of how Henry's background contributes to his purpose and how well he uses the rhetorical situation to argue his message.

New due date for Opinionated (see post below).

Buy Night. We will begin to read it in the next two weeks.

Friday, November 10, 2017

UPDATED DUE DATE: Opinionated now due Nov. 22

New due date: day before Thanksgiving break. If you will be absent, it is your responsibility to turn it in digitally and in print before the due date.

I will supply you with at least one exemplar (opinionated written by other students) so you can grade and see how well they did against the rubric. This will give you a sense of what to do and what not to do on your own published piece.