Due Now: Education Narrative Revisions are due. If you choose not to revise, please return your essay to me. Due Now: Parallelism H/O, exercises 1, 2, and 3 Due Now: "Lost in the Kitchen," by Dave Barry, in 50 Essays. (Add it to your bibliography). Focus on Persona. Due Now: Bibliography Due Wednesday: One synthesis paragraph from your essay. Due Friday: Vocab 7 Due Monday, 11/7: All
H.i.F. Revisions. If you already have an A, come talk to me before you
revise. If you have received the same comment three times, come talk to
me before you revise. Due Monday, 11/7: Education Synthesis. Check the minimums. Does anyone remember this post?
Due Now: Education Narrative Revisions are due. If you choose not to revise, please return your essay to me. Due Now: Parallelism H/O, exercises 1, 2, and 3 Due Now: "Lost in the Kitchen," by Dave Barry, in 50 Essays. (Add it to your bibliography). Focus on Persona. Due Tuesday: Bibliography Due Wednesday: One synthesis paragraph from your essay. Due Friday: Vocab 7 Due Monday, 11/7: All H.i.F. Revisions. If you already have an A, come talk to me before you revise. If you have received the same comment three times, come talk to me before you revise. Does anyone remember this post?
Due Now: Education Narrative Revisions are due. If you choose not to revise, please return your essay to me. Due Now: Vocab 6 Due Monday: Parallelism H/O, exercises 1, 2, and 3 Due Monday: "Lost in the Kitchen," by Dave Barry, in 50 Essays. (Add it to your bibliography). Focus on Persona. Due Tuesday: Bibliography Due Wednesday: One synthesis paragraph from your essay. Does anyone remember this post?
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gradebook
Vocab Questions from you
Vocab Question for you: what are you doing to own this vocab?
Due Now: Education Narrative Revisions are due. If you choose not to revise, please return your essay to me. Due Now: "None of this is Fair," by Richard Rodriguez (handout) Due Friday: Vocab 6 Due Monday: Parallelism H/O, exercises 1, 2, and 3 Due Monday: "Lost in the Kitchen," by Dave Barry, in 50 Essays. (Add it to your bibliography). Focus on Persona. Coming Tomorrow: The Bibliography
Due Now: Education Narrative Revisions are due. If you choose not to revise, please return your essay to me. Due Tuesday: "The Myth of the Latin Woman," by Judith Ortiz Cofer, in 50 Essays. Be sure to reread it. Due Wednesday: "None of this is Fair," by Richard Rodriguez (handout) Due Friday: Vocab 6
Due Now: Education Narrative Revisions are due. If you choose not to revise, please return your essay to me. Due Tuesday: "The Myth of the Latin Woman," by Judith Ortiz Cofer, in 50 Essays. Be sure to reread it. Due Wednesday: "None of this is Fair," by Richard Rodriguez (handout) Due Friday: Vocab 6
What did you learn yesterday?
Your question in one word
What is the myth of the Latin woman? Is it present in the world today?
Due Now: HiF revisions. Highlight all changes. Paper clip final on top of previous drafts. If you choose not to revise, you need to return your essay to me by the due date. Starting tomorrow: Education Narrative Revisions are due. If you choose not to revise, please return your essay to me. Due Tuesday: "The Myth of the Latin Woman," by Judith Ortiz Cofer, in 50 Essays. Be sure to reread it. Due Wednesday: "None of this is Fair," by Richard Rodriguez (handout) Due Friday: Vocab 6
Collect revisions
If you want me to skim your synthesis paragraph, leave it with me.
Considering several of the pieces we have read in this unit
– as well as your personal reading, observation, and research – write an
argument that explores ONE of the following questions: 1) What is the value of
education? or 2) What is the best way to learn?
Typed. Double Spaced. Twelve point. No blank lines between
paragraphs, except to indicate a major shift in tone or setting. Three – six
pages. Don’t forget a title. Don’t forget your header.
Required:
·Include at least one sentence that employs
parallelism, used to create a specific effect. Underline your parallel
structures.
·Support from a minimum of three classroom
sources.
·Support from a minimum of one additional source
from the Gale database.
·At least two “synthesis” paragraphs.
·Properly formatted Works Cited Page.
Suggested: End with a plan of action for the future. Employ
anaphora in your conclusion.
Audience: 1) The editor of a nationally published magazine.
2) The well-educated readers of that magazine. 3) Yourself.
Purpose: 1) To explore contemporary issues regarding the way
people learn and the way we teach 2) To evaluate the current state of education
in America or the world at large. 3) To suggest a plan of action for the
future.
How to approach this paper:
·Develop an opinion on this subject.
·Gather evidence (from our texts and from
research) to support your opinion. This is an argument; therefore, personal experience is valid evidence and
first person is an acceptable POV.
·Create clear, defensible topic sentences.
·Draft paragraphs with two quotations to support
your topic sentences.
·Draft paragraphs with an eye towards ethos,
pathos, and logos.
·Proofread to ensure your quotations are properly
formatted and cited. For this essay, “you will need to include the author’s
name in your parenthetical citation” (Kline 1).
Due Friday: Synthesis Paragraph. Typed. Double Spaced. Due Friday: "The Myth of the Latin Woman," by Judith Ortiz Cofer, in 50 Essays Due Friday: Vocab 5 Due Monday, 10/24: HiF revisions. Highlight all changes. Paper clip final on top of previous drafts. If you choose not to revise, you need to return your essay to me by the due date. Coming Monday: Lab Day to learn research skills. Due Tuesday: "None of this is Fair," by Richard Rodriguez (handout)
Due Yesterday: Read and highlight "Synthesizing Visual Rhetoric" (handout) Due Yesterday: Bring a hard copy of an image or graph about education. If you find it online, feel free to e-mail the link to me. Due Friday: Synthesis Paragraph. Typed. Double Spaced. Due Friday: "The Myth of the Latin Woman," by Judith Ortiz Cofer, in 50 Essays Due Friday: Vocab 5 Due Monday, 10/24: HiF revisions. Highlight all changes. Paper clip final on top of previous drafts. If you choose not to revise, you need to return your essay to me by the due date. Coming Monday: Lab Day to learn research skills. Due Tuesday: "None of this is Fair," by Richard Rodriguez (handout)
Due Wednesday: Read and highlight "Synthesizing Visual Rhetoric" (handout) Due Wednesday: Bring a hard copy of an image or graph about education. If you find it online, feel free to e-mail the link to me. Due Friday: Synthesis Paragraph. Details to be posted soon. Due Friday: "The Myth of the Latin Woman," by Judith Ortiz Cofer, in 50 Essays Due Friday: Vocab 5 Due Monday, 10/24: HiF revisions. Highlight all changes. Paper clip final on top of previous drafts. If you choose not to revise, you need to return your essay to me by the due date.
Topic Sentence: The topic sentence
should state your opinion. The synthesis paragraph supports your opinion
with evidence from multiple sources.
Set-up:
You need to set up your quotation. The set-up has a number of purposes.
Some set-up sentences establish your source. Where did you find the
information? What makes this author qualified to support your opinion.
Sometimes the source material itself is sufficient to establish your
author's qualification. For example, if your article comes from the Journal of American Medicine, your author is by definition credible. If your article if from High Times,
on the other hand, it might be more difficult (but not impossible) to
establish your source as reliable. Appositives can be very helpful when
you are establishing sources. Once you have established your source as
reliable, you don't need to do it again. Your set-up also needs to
provide a little bit of context. What was your author writing about in
the essay when your quotation appears?
Quotation:
Never use a quotation as a complete sentence. At the very least, begin
like this: [Author] writes, " ..." (Author Pg). The "Author's Name" in
the parenthetical citation should be the first word that appears on the
Works Cited page. You don't need the abbreviation "Pg" in your citation.
You don't need to invent a page number for websites that don't have
page numbers.
Analysis: First, decode any
figurative language that appears in your quotation. Then, explain how
the quotation supports your topic sentence. You don't need to label your
quotation as a quotation.
Repeat the S-Q-A
steps. At some point during the first Analysis or the second Set-up you
will need to transition from your first quotation to your second.
Transitions of addition, emphasis, or contrast will all work here (a
quick google search will provide you with endless lists of transitions).
Closing: This sentence wraps up your paragraph and transitions the reader into your next paragraph.
For Synthesis essays, you need to incorporate sources. Below is a list of practices to avoid
when integrating sources, as well as a set of questions to consider when
establishing the position of a source.
In his 1953 song, “Lobachevsky,” mathematician
and satirist Tom Leher mocks society’s tendency to reward poor quality and minimal
effort. Shortly after listing a number of terrible reviews of his terrible book,
he brags, “Metro-Goldwyn-Moskva
buys movie rights for six million rubles” (Lehrer).
Due Wednesday: Read and highlight "Synthesizing Visual Rhetoric" (handout) Due Wednesday: Bring a hard copy of an image or graph about education. If you find it online, feel free to e-mail the link to me. Due Thursday: Synthesis Paragraph. Details to be posted soon. Due Friday: Vocab 5 Due Monday, 10/24: HiF revisions. Highlight all changes. Paper clip final on top of previous drafts. If you choose not to revise, you need to return your essay to me by the due date.
Due Monday: "'I Just Wanna Be Average'," by Mike Rose, in 50 Essays Due Monday: 5-entry dialectical journal on "'Average'" (get handout from me) Due Wednesday: Bring a hard copy of an image or graph about education. Due Friday: Vocab 5
Provide the definition for each of the following words that
you don’t know. Even if you think you are familiar with the word, you should
check its definition to confirm your understanding. For words you need to
define, include the dictionary definition and a translation of the dictionary
definition into your own words.
Write an original sentence for each word in the list,
whether you need to define it or not. Post one sentence as a comment. You only need
to post a sentence for one of the ten following words. Please type your work.
Due Now: "Me Talk Pretty One Day," by David Sedaris, in 50 Essays Due Now: Four column notes on Sedaris essay. These notes may be handwritten or typed.Five quotations exactly. Due Now: Test on Vocab 1-4. Know definitions and be prepared to write sentences. Due Monday: "'I Just Wanna Be Average'," by Mike Rose, in 50 Essays Due Monday: 5-entry dialectical journal on "'Average'" (get handout from me)
Beginning 10/6: Revisions due. Highlight all changes. Staple final on top of previous draft. If you choose not to revise, you need to return your essay to me by the due date. Due Thursday: "Me Talk Pretty One Day," by David Sedaris, in 50 Essays Due Thursday: Four column notes on Sedaris essay. These notes may be handwritten or typed.Five quotations exactly. Due Thursday: Test on Vocab 1-4. Know definitions and be prepared to write sentences. Due Monday: "'I Just Wanna Be Average'," by Mike Rose, in 50 Essays Due Monday: 5-entry dialectical journal (get handout from me)
Vocab 3 Questions
Title as a Rhetorical Strategy
Superman reminds me of
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Beginning 10/6: Revisions due. Highlight all changes. Staple final on top of previous draft. If you choose not to revise, you need to return your essay to me by the due date. Due Thursday: "Me Talk Pretty One Day," by David Sedaris, in 50 Essays Due Thursday: Four column notes on Sedaris essay. These notes may be handwritten or typed.Five quotations exactly.Due Thursday: Test on Vocab 1-4. Know definitions and be prepared to write sentences.
