12th Grade: August 15th-19th 2011

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Writing by hand

Essential Question(s):

What are the class expectations for me this school year?

How do our past and present experiences shape our personal identities?

What is a college essay?

Standards Covered This Week:

ELAWLRL4The student employs a variety of writing genres to demonstrate a comprehensive grasp of significant ideas in selected literary works. The student composes essays, narratives, poems, or technical documents

 

ELA12W1 The student produces writing that establishes and appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a focus, and signals closure.

ELA12W2 The student demonstrates competence in a variety of genres: narrative, expository, persuasive, technical, and uses research and technology to support writing.

ELAWLRL2 The student identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of theme in world literature.

Date:

Class Work

Homework

Important Due Date

Monday, August 15th 2011

-Review Class Syllabus Policies and Expectations

World Lit Syllabus.doc

-Learn names

-Get Film Permission form Signed 

 

Tuesday, August 16th 2011

-Establish writing groups

 

-Journal Writing (10 mins)

 

 -Begin Discussing the elements of a personal memoir and personal writing. 

 

-Read "Big Boy" by Davis Sedaris

big-boy-by-sedaris.doc 

 

-Discuss

 

-Focus:  Descriptive writing activity/ Writing from memory

 

 

Wednesday,   August 17th 2011

-Introduction to VOICE in writing- genre activity

 

-Read "Me Talk Pretty One Day"- focus 1st person point of view and voice

me talk pretty one day.doc 

 -Applied Practice and Group Activity:  Voice in writing (see blue link above)

 

 

Thursday,  August 18th 2011

-Journal-10min

 

-Finish discussing VOICE activity from yesterday

 


 

Friday, August 19th 2011

 -Finish Discussion on Voice


-Revise one journal entry using voice techniques

 

-Read "The Pie" - identify sensory detail in groups.- discuss 

the pie.doc

The Pie Sensory Detail.doc  

Signed Film Permission Forms Due

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