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We're earning stars, finishing projects, and catching up on work.  Don't forget your final meeting date!

On line class today!

Please continue compiling portfolios, rewriting essays, and completing final projects.

See you Wed.

On Line Class Monday, April 20th. 

Please check the blog for project definitions and continuing completing portfolios.

Final Project, English 101

Rhetorical Knowledge

Gain experience reading and composing in several genres to understand how genre conventions shape and are shaped by readers’ and writers’ practices and purposesDefine:

This means I have read and written several types of essays and I know what readers expect for each type.

Explain:

In this class I’ve written a C/C essay, a RBA, a problem solution essay, and more.  In the C/C essay, readers are expecting to see things being compared, contrasted, or both, and here is a quote from my C/C essay that shows me doing exactly that: “…………………………….”

In an RBA, readers expect to see research, and some type of persuasion or argument writing.  Here is a quote from my RBA that shows how I incorporated research, which one of the conventions of this essay:  “…………………………………………”

Lastly, I wrote a P/S essay, and I identified a problem and offered a solution.  In that essay I wrote, “……………………………….” and all of these quotes show that I know what readers expect from each type of different essay.

Develop facility in responding to a variety of situations and contexts calling for purposeful shifts in voice, tone, level of formality, design, medium, and/or structure

Define:

This means I can write many different things and I can change the way I sound and the structure of the piece based on what I am writing.

Explain:

In my journals, I employ a familiar voice and lower level of formality or professionalism.  They don’t have to be academic, because they are just for me.  Here’s an example of a journal entry where I am using slang and abbreviating, something I’d never do in a professional essay.  I wrote: “………………………………………” in response to that day’s question.  I sound completely different when I am writing for an academic audience and in my first literary response, about the poem “Daddy,” I attempted to sound more formal and I used separate paragraphs to designate intro, body, and conclusion paragraphs.  Here’s a place where I’m quoting the poem and then writing about it with academic language, which is vastly different from my journal: “………………………………………..”  It’s clear I can change not only the way I sound, but also the way things look based upon what I asked to write.

Final Meeting Days-

Portfolio Meetings-   This is when you're finished with all work and have all stars....

May 1st

Ashley
Karis
Adrian
Alex
Kimberly
Neil
Airianna
Omar



May 4th

Elizabeth
Bron
Maria
Jose
Luis
Becky




May 6th

Hussein
Steven
Angele
Raul
Deo
Terrell
Ian
Ivonne

Grades and Drafting day...

Same as on Friday...

Grades and Drafting Day!

We'll be finishing projects to earn stars.

We'll be having grade conferences.

We'll be awesome.

Book Test

Choose a chapter or section from your book that you think most exemplifies one of the main themes. 

Remember, for our purposes, a theme can't just be love;  it should state something specific about love like

"love is the key to happiness."  Once you've selected your theme, please write an essay that includes many,

many contextualized quotes from the selection you've chosen and that proves the theme is what you say it is.


Dates and Reminders-

Final Project-