Friday, April 21:
1) Complete these practice multiple choice questions. Use process of elimination.
2) Highlight your Samuel Johnson paragraph according to this:
– yellow: text (quotes and paraphrase)
– orange: inference (devices, explanation, anything not yellow or pink)
– pink: analysis (Why does the author do this? What effect does it have on the audience?)
3) Based on our observations yesterday about the sample essay, what do you need to work on with your paragraph?
4) Copy notes from someone else on the analysis prompt from the back of the 10 commandments sheet.
5) Read, annotate, and write a thesis for the analysis prompt in your packet from 2007 (Staying Put).
HW: Tshirt money due Tuesday
– checks made out to Mrs. Chanski
– $9 for short sleeve, $13 for long sleeve
For a bit more practice with analysis, you could read and annotate the last prompt in your packet of analysis prompts (the prompt from 2004 from Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring).
Thursday, April 20: Read the second prompt and passage in the packet of analysis prompts (the passage from 2010: The Horizontal World). You should read and annotate carefully for the three guiding questions we’ve been using for analysis. This should take you about 8 minutes.
– What is the passage about?
– What is the purpose?
– How does the author accomplish that purpose?
Write a thesis.
Read the sample student essay responding to this prompt. You’ll find it on the last page of the packet of analysis prompts. Identify strengths and weaknesses, and estimate a score.
Highlight the first body paragraph of that essay according to the following key:
– yellow: text (quotes and paraphrase)
– orange: inference (devices, explanation, anything not yellow or pink)
– pink: analysis (Why does the author do this? What effect does it have on the audience?)
What do you notice about the organization, proportion, and combinations of colors in this successful essay?
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Wednesday, April 19:
1) Brainstorm as many answers as you can think of for the following question. Use the TOUGHER acronym to help you.
– What good ideas don’t work because people are flawed?
– What are some of the things we (as individuals or society) do or methods we use simply out of habit and tradition, but that don’t serve a specific practical purpose?
2) Write a thesis and one body paragraph for the analysis prompt we read yesterday (letter from Samuel Johnson).
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Tuesday, April 18:
1) Brainstorm as many answers as you can think of for the following question. Use the TOUGHER acronym to help you.
What are some of the necessary evils of history or modern day?
2) Brainstorm a list of what you or any writer needs to think about or do when trying to communicate. What things might you do to appeal/manipulate? (copy someone else’s list if you were absent)
3) Close read the 2011 analysis prompt (letter from Samuel Johnson – in the mailbox if you were absent). In you journal, you should have a list of steps to follow when completing the analysis essay–you can use this to help you.
4) Write an introduction and 1 body paragraph for that analysis essay.
5) Place t-shirt orders.
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Monday, April 17:
1) Read these three sample essays
– rank
– strengths and weaknesses of each
– estimate scores
2) What score do you think you got on the essay? What do you need to work on? What can you learn from the sample essays you read?
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