October 16 - 20

 Welcome!  Here's what's on the agenda for the week:

MONDAY/TUESDAY: Journal warm-up.  Go over the prompts and class annotations.  Look at pages 25-26 from the Close Reading packet together. Discuss outline styles. Cumulative sentences and group activity.

Due: 
1. Read and annotate 2 rhetorical analysis prompts.  Think about which one you would like to use to write into a full, take-home essay.

Homework: For Thursday/Friday - complete outline for one of the two rhetorical analysis prompts.  You may use phrases instead of full sentences, but please do write it on a separate piece of paper in outline format.

WEDNESDAY (5th period): Journal warm-up. Current event day: read and annotate articles from multiple perspectives, discuss and debate, outline, and vote.

Due: n/a

Homework: (same as Monday)

THURSDAY/FRIDAY: Journal warm-up. Vocab quiz covering grammar, vocabulary from list #5.  Cumulative sentences - review samples from groups.  Figurative language definitions, how they can make an argument more effective.  Figurative language challenge activity.

Due: Complete outline for one of the two rhetorical analysis prompts.  You may use phrases instead of full sentences, but please do write it on a separate piece of paper in outline format.

Homework: Read and annotate Shooting an Elephant in the Close Reading packet, pages 21-24.

Please get a copy of A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and bring it to class next week.  It's available on Amazon for $3, I can sell you a copy in class, or I'm happy to provide a copy if you're not able to purchase it, please let me know.