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Just Wrapping Up

1.  We're trying to finish the semester and complete final projects and earn stars on all essays.

2.  Vocab Test.

3.  Grading and Conferences.

Vocab Test Words

Emboss	decorate with a raised design
Eschew	shun; avoid
Limpid	transparently clear
Liturgy	form of worship
Nexus	connection
Odometer	instrument to measure distance covered
Purchase	1. grip; 2. buy
Quotidian	daily; routine
Seminal	essential; formative

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Agog	amazed; wide-eyed with enthusiasm
Amortize	pay off a debt in installments
Curmudgeon	grumpy person
Dormancy	state of inactivity
Efficacy	effectiveness
Epithet	phrase used as a label or to express the essential nature of
Figurehead	symbol of power; nominal leader
Fracas	fight; disturbance
Jamb	door post
Milk	to squeeze; obtain by application of pressure

Presentations

Updates and Reminders:  Next Vocab Test on Tuesday, April 7.

Next, Next Vocab Tests on Tuesday April  14, 21, 28

Book Test #3 on April 28.

All work turned in by April 30th, except for final project.

Final Project Introduction, Tuesday, April 7.

Final Meeting Dates-  Please be ready to meet by May 5th.  What happens at the meeting?

May 5


May 7

Final Day of Class-  May 7. 

Book Test + Time to draft or revise or chat

Book Test:

Select a chapter from your book that you believe best exemplifies one of the main themes in the book.  A theme should be more than just, "Love;" it should be something that describes some aspect of love.  Use many, many contextualized quotes from that chapter to prove that your theme exists in the book.

Essays due at the end of class.

If you finish early, draft, revise, or chat about ongoing projects.

Dates and Reminders

Final Project-

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 purposes

Define:

Explain:

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:

Explain:

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Composing  

Use composing and reading for inquiry, learning, critical thinking, and communicating in various rhetorical contexts

Define:

Explain:


Locate and evaluate (for credibility, sufficiency, accuracy, timeliness, bias and so on) primary and secondary research materials, including journal articles and essays, books, scholarly and professionally established and maintained databases or archives, and informal electronic networks and internet sources

Define:

Explain:

Use strategies—such as interpretation, synthesis, response, critique, and design/redesign—to compose texts that integrate the writer's ideas with those from appropriate sources

Define:

Explain:

Processes

Develop a writing project through multiple drafts

Define:

Explain:

Develop flexible strategies for reading, drafting, reviewing, collaborating, revising, rewriting, rereading, and editing

Define:

Explain:


Learn to give and to act on productive feedback to works in progress

Define:

Explain:




Knowledge of Conventions

Develop knowledge of linguistic structures, including grammar, punctuation, and spelling, through practice in composing and revising

Define:

Explain:



Understand why genre conventions for structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics vary

Define:

Explain:



Practice applying citation conventions systematically in their own work

Define:

Explain:

Current Portfolio List

Diagnostic

Outside reading tests, 3

Journals, a bunch with poems and analysis, especially.

Hope Thing Feathers annotation + writing

TS list, defined

GMH poem

Inference test

Lateral thinking skills test

Thinking skills test

Hink Pink

Love Song essay

Vocab test 1

Good man is hard to find essay

Vocab 2

C/C essay based upon necklace and rocking horse

Happiness Project Essay

Presentation

Proposal

Problem- Solution essay

Final Project.

Vocab 3

* essay should include all drafts and attempts and to be finished, earn a star.