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

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Explain:




Knowledge of Conventions

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

Define:

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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.

Tying up ends

1.       Works Cited help?  (databases)

2.       Groups and reading?

3.       Outlines review for next project?  Essay Due April 16-

4.       Grading and conferences for submitted essays on Tuesday?

4.3- April 30   Last day for work to be submitted for a star.

4.5- Portfolio List

5.       New Vocab List:

rescind	v.	to repeal or annul
sagacious	adj.	having a sharp or powerful intellect or discernment. (n: sagacity).
sanguine	adj.	cheerful; confident: "Her sanguine attitude put everyone at ease."(Sangfroid (noun) is a related French word meaning unflappibility. Literally, it means cold blood)
sate	v.	to satisfy fully or to excess
saturnine	adj.	having a gloomy or morose temperament
savant	n.	a very knowledgable person; a genious
sedulous	adj.	diligent; persevering; persistent: "Her sedulous devotion to overcoming her background impressed many." (n: sedulity; sedulousness; adv. sedulously)
specious	adj.	seemingly true but really false; deceptively convincing or attractive: "Her argument, though specious, was readily accepted by many."
superficial	adj.	only covering the surface: "A superficial treatment of the topic was all they wanted."
tacit	adj.	unspoken: "Katie and carmella had a tacit agreement that they would not mention the dented fender to their parents."
taciturn	adj.	habitually untalkative or silent (n: taciturnity)
temperate	adj.	exercising moderation and self-denial; calm or mild (n: temperance)
tirade (diatribe)	n.	an angry speech: "His tirade had gone on long enough."
tortuous	adj.	twisted; excessively complicated: "Despite public complaints, tax laws and forms have become increasingly tortuous." Note: Don't confuse this with torturous.
tractable	adj.	ability to be easily managed or controlled: "Her mother wished she were more tractable." (n: tractibility)
turpitude	n.	depravity; baseness: "Mr. Castor was fired for moral turpitude."
tyro	n.	beginner; person lacking experience in a specific endeavor: "They easily took advantage of the tyro."
vacuous	adj.	empty; without contents; without ideas or intelligence:: "She flashed a vacuous smile."
venerate	v.	great respect or reverence: "The Chinese traditionally venerated their ancestors; ancestor worship is merely a popular misnomer for this tradition." (n: veneration, adj: venerable)
verbose	adj.	wordy: "The instructor asked her verbose student make her paper more concise." (n: verbosity)
vex	v.	to annoy; to bother; to perplex; to puzzle; to debate at length: "Franklin vexed his brother with his controversial writings."
viscous	adj.	slow moving; highly resistant to flow: "Heintz commercials imply that their catsup is more viscous than others'." (n: viscosity)
volatile	adj.	explosive; fickle (n: volatility).
voracious	adj.	craving or devouring large quantities of food, drink, or other things. She is a voracious reader.
waver	v.	to hesitate or to tremble
wretched	adj.	extremely pitiful or unfortunate (n: wretch)
zeal	n.	enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal (n: zealot; zealoutry. adj: zealous)