Work on your Independent Reading Handout. It's due Monday.


Turn in your Brainstorming, Shaping/Outline, & Rough Draft.


Read & do Rhetorical Analysis of "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan p. 542. 

Vocabulary List 2 Quiz
Ehrenreich Reading Check Quiz

Turn in 3 Rhetorical Analysis Assignments.

Be sure to pick up Vocabulary List 3 & Writing Exercise.

Writing Exercises are due next Wednesday, October 3rd (2 Vocabulary & Sentence Combining).

Work on your outline & rough draft.  These are due tomorrow.

You should be working on shaping your Narrative/Descriptive Essay.  Write down the following for your essay:
Subject:
Narrowed Topic:
Purpose:
Main Idea:
Audience:

You also need an informal, working outline.  Look on page 96 of The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers for an example.

Your brainstorming, shaping (with outline), and first draft are due Friday.  These 3 items are worth 30 points of your final grade, which is a test grade 2nd six weeks.  If you do not turn them in, you will NOT be allowed to turn them in later.

If you are going to be absent Friday due to an extra-curricular activity, it is your responsibility to turn in this work on or before Friday.  If you're here in the morning on Friday, you can leave it at the front office for someone to place in my box.  You can send it with a friend or classmate whom you trust to deliver it to me.  You can also turn it in early on Thursday.  :)

Today we read Amy Tan's "Fish Cheeks" essay as an example of a Narrative/Descriptive essay.  You can follow this link to read her essay:

http://redroom.com/member/amy-tan/writing/fish-cheeks

Read yesterday's post for reminders of what is due tomorrow.

Smile....It's Picture Day!  

"Putting Down the Gun"  quiz today.

Work on Shaping/Prewriting your essay.  Make decisions about how you want to organize your narrative.  Set up an informal, working outline.  You should work out what each of your paragraphs will include.  

Don't forget that each part of your essay will count towards the final grade on your essay.

Homework: Read & Do Rhetorical Analysis Assignment for "from Serving in Florida" p. 179-188  in The Language of Composition

Reminders:

 Thursday:  Turn in 3 Rhetorical Analysis Assignments (Freedman, Walker, Ehrenreich)
                  Vocabulary Quiz #2
                  Ehrenreich Quiz

Friday:  Independent Reading Deadline
             Brainstorming, Outline, & First Draft Due

Your essay is for a major grade.  Each step of the writing process counts towards your grade as follows:
Brainstorming 10 pts; Outline 10 pts; 1st Draft 10 pts; Peer Response 10 pts; Teacher Conference 10 pts. 2nd Revised Draft 50 pts.

Today you will collect ideas for your Narrative/Descriptive Essay.  You may use one of the following strategies:
 - Brainstorming   -Freewriting   
 -Looping              -Clustering


Begin shaping/prewriting your essay.  Write down the following elements of your essay:
 -Subject   
 -Narrowed Topic
 -Purpose
 -Main Idea
 -Audience

Decide which shaping strategy you want to use.  
Tomorrow we will work on an informal outline.  

Homework:  
Read & Do Rhetorical Analysis Assignment

p. 412-14  "Putting Down the Gun"  The Language of Composition

Writing Exercise: Sentence Combining

Try combining those sentences into three, two, or even just one clear and coherent sentence: in the process of combining, omit repetitive words and phrases (such as "She was") but keep all of the original details.

·         She was our Latin teacher.

·         We were in high school.

·         She was tiny.

·         She was a birdlike woman.

·         She was swarthy.

·         She had dark eyes.

·         Her eyes were sparkling.

·         Her hair was graying.

Notes from The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers

p. 83-88  Shaping Strategies

p. 104-105  Techniques for Writing About Memories

As you take notes, keep in mind that your purpose is two-fold:  1) learn to use the strategies in your own writing; 2) learn to recognize the strategies in others' writing.

Solidify your ideas for the Narrative/Descriptive essay you plan to write.

Be prepared to identify your Subject, Specific Topic, Purpose, and Audience for this paper.

Monday we will begin sketching out ideas.

Vocabulary Quiz Today

Pick up Vocabulary List 2 and Writing Exercise.

Finish the Rhetorical Analysis Assignment for the Freedman essay.

Continue brainstorming for your personal narrative essay.

Notes on Shaping Strategies pg. 83 in The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers.