Agenda, March 1

• Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters v & vi.
• Due Tomorrow: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters vii & viii.
• Due Tomorrow: Optional but highly recommended revision of your Works Cited page. Staple your revised WC to your previous WC.
• Do Thursday, Friday, and Saturday: Go see Lost in Yonkers. All tickets are $8. Doors open at 6:45. Get there early.
• Due Tuesday, 3/6 (NOT OPTIONAL): Revise or add one synthesis paragraph to your Poor Synthesis Essay. If you did not turn in a Poor Synthesis Essay, write a synthesis paragraph that you would have used. Attach this to your previous draft. If you would like to do a more thorough revision, see me.
• Due Friday, 3/9: Develop one of your outlines into a full essay (with at least 4 body paragraphs). Your audience is the editors of the OCHS Lit Mag and the student body of OCHS. MLA. 750-1000 words. 

Today's Agenda:

1. MC Answers
2. Talks about and Goes on to say
3. Juxtaposition in Ch. iii
4. What do we need to discuss in Ch. i - vi?
5. Rhetorical Devices in Ch. v
6. Become a chapter expert: Chapter iv or vi

Agenda, February 28

• Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters iii & iv.
• Due Tomorrow: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters v & vi.
• Due Friday: Optional but highly recommended revision of your Works Cited page. Staple your revised WC to your previous WC.
• Do Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday: Go see Lost in Yonkers. All tickets are $8. Doors open at 6:45. Get there early.
• Due Tuesday, 3/6 (NOT OPTIONAL): Revise or add one synthesis paragraph to your Poor Synthesis Essay. If you did not turn in a Poor Synthesis Essay, write a synthesis paragraph that you would have used. Attach this to your previous draft. If you would like to do a more thorough revision, see me.

Today's Agenda:

1. Rhetorical Devices Review
2. While I was reading, I noticed ...
3. Open Discussion
4. Juxtaposition
5. Talks about and Goes on to say

Agenda, February 27

• Due Now: Cause and Effect Outline. Instead of an introduction, state your purpose or So What? at the beginning of the outline. For each body paragraph, write a topic sentence and two supporting details, just like you've been doing. Write a full conclusion. Typed. Not quite MLA. 
• Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 1 and 2.
• Due Tomorrow: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters iii & iv
• Due Friday: Optional but highly recommended revision of your Works Cited page. Staple your revised WC to your previous WC.
• Do Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday: Go see Lost in Yonkers. All tickets are $8. Doors open at 6:45. Get there early.
• Due Tuesday, 3/6 (NOT OPTIONAL): Revise or add one synthesis paragraph to your Poor Synthesis Essay. If you did not turn in a Poor Synthesis Essay, write a synthesis paragraph that you would have used. Attach this to your previous draft. If you would like to do a more thorough revision, see me.

Today's Agenda:

1. While I was reading, I noticed ...
2. Open Discussion
3. Ch. i Rhetorical Devices
4. Ch ii Structure
5. Talks about and Goes on to say

Agenda, February 26

• Due Now: What are the three most important revisions you need to make to your synthesis paper? Why do you think so? Typed preferred, but not required.
• Due Tomorrow: Cause and Effect Outline. Instead of an introduction, state your purpose or So What? at the beginning of the outline. For each body paragraph, write a topic sentence and two supporting details, just like you've been doing. Write a full conclusion. Typed. Not quite MLA. 
• Due Tomorrow: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 1 and 2. It's about World War I. It's written in stream of consciousness. 
• Due Friday, 3/2: Optional but highly recommended revision of your Works Cited page. 
• Do Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday: Go see Lost in Yonkers. All tickets are $8. Doors open at 6:45. Get there early.

Today's Agenda:

1. Handouts from Hellman
2. Conclusion Strategies Review (plus "exhortation")
3. Cause and effect brainstorm
4. MC Practice
5. 1 Quick TEP Practice
6. The Structural Rhetorical Analysis

Agenda, January 23

• Due Now: Cause and Effect Packet; three different essays from Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition. Add each essay to your Bib. You don't need to add the chapter. 
• Due Now: Process Analysis Outline. Instead of an introduction, state your purpose or So What? at the beginning of the outline. For each body paragraph, write a topic sentence and two supporting details, just like you've been doing. Write a full conclusion. Typed. Not quite MLA. 
• Due Tuesday: Cause and Effect Outline. Instead of an introduction, state your purpose or So What? at the beginning of the outline. For each body paragraph, write a topic sentence and two supporting details, just like you've been doing. Write a full conclusion. Typed. Not quite MLA. 
• Due Tuesday: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 1 and 2. It's about World War I. It's written in stream of consciousness. 
• Due Monday: What are the three most important revisions you need to make to your synthesis paper? Why do you think so? Typed preferred, but not required.
• Due Friday, 3/2: Optional but highly recommended revision of your Works Cited page.  

  Today's Agenda:

1. What is cause and effect?
2. Cause and effect brainstorm
3. A trip to the library
4. What essay would you like to discuss?

Updated Due Dates

• Due Thursday: Cause and Effect Packet; three different essays from Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition. Add each essay to your Bib. You don't need to add the chapter. 
• Due Thursday: Process Analysis Outline. Instead of an introduction, state your purpose or So What? at the beginning of the outline. For each body paragraph, write a topic sentence and two supporting details, just like you've been doing. Write a full conclusion. Typed. Not quite MLA.   

Agenda, February 20

• Do today: Drive safely!
• Do tonight: Frolic in the snow
• Due Now: Process Analysis Packet; three different essays from Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition. Add each essay to your Bib. You don't need to add the chapter.
• Due Wednesday: Cause and Effect Packet; three different essays from Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition. Add each essay to your Bib. You don't need to add the chapter. 
• Due Wednesday: Process Analysis Outline. Instead of an introduction, state your purpose or So What? at the beginning of the outline. For each body paragraph, write a topic sentence and two supporting details, just like you've been doing. Write a full conclusion. Typed. Not quite MLA.  

  Today's Agenda:

1. Um ...

Would you like to see Kline get stabbed?

Here's an opportunity to schedule a blood drive!

You might be able to count this as a senior project, too! You'd have to check with KJ to make sure.

For my foul and pestilent congregation of vapors ...

I post this link at Baileigh's request. Happy insulting, you lumpish, bettle-headed miscreants!

Agenda, Discount Candy Day

• Due Now: Process Analysis Packet; three different essays from Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition. Add each essay to your Bib. You don't need to add the chapter.
• Due Wednesday: Cause and Effect Packet; three different essays from Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition. Add each essay to your Bib. You don't need to add the chapter. 
• Due Now: Compare and Contrast Outline with a multi-paragraph intro. Typed. Not quite MLA.
• Due Wednesday: Process Analysis Outline. Instead of an introduction, state your purpose or So What? at the beginning of the outline. For each body paragraph, write a topic sentence and two supporting details, just like you've been doing. Write a full conclusion. Typed. Not quite MLA.  

  Today's Agenda:

1. In conclusion ...
2. Questions about PA?
3. Steps in "Runner." Get it? STEPS in "Runner."
4. PA Brainstorm