The templates for analyzing quotations (as talked about in block 3) can be found in the Writing Resources tab. Click the tab not the pull down menu
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Essay 5- Narrative Essay: "THIS I BELIEVE"
click on the links to open the files and instructions. Part I - Listen and read what others have Believed Part II and III- draft credo and write essay Narrative Due date: Wednesday Dec. 6 |
(Light Side/Dark Side Project Info
Light Side Authors: Dark Side Authors: Emerson Poe Thoreau Irving (?) Whitman Hawthorne (?) Fuller Stanton Stowe Hawthorne |
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Due Wednesday 10/25
Due Monday 10/30
Read and annotate- bring to class ready to discuss: Susan B Anthony Additionally- Respond- to the idea that in an unjust state the place of the just man is in a prison. 1 paragraph |
Revolutionary Thinkers We've already read Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine, lets now explore Abigail and John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Due Wednesday October 4 Adams and Adams- Print out and annotate Letter From Abigail to John March 31, 1776 Letter from John To Abigail April 14, 1776 Letter from Abigail to Mercy Otis April 27, 1776 Follow the link below print out and bring to class. Abigail and John's Letters Further Reading: Declaration of Independence Benjamin Franklin (post revolution writing 1782) Essay #2- Rhetorical Analysis - Who Said it Best? Draft Due Wednesday Oct. 11 |
1st 6 weeks- Identity and Argument
Who are we? How do we know who we are? How do we communicate that to others in stories, essays, and speeches? How does language affect identity?
Weekly Assignments ACC
Week 6 DUE September 27 &28
- Download and save the document. (see button below)
- Read and take two column notes from "Framing the Question" through part 3 "Rhetoric" (stop at the "activity" before excerpt 1)
- Bring two column notes to class Wed/Thurs
- Do questions on pages 5-7 between the activities "Common Sense of Common Sense" and "Metaphor of Youth"
- Homework due Friday/Monday is the PDF- print out and bring completed to class: "Worksheet: The Question as Rhetorical Device"
New England Primer-
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Click on the image to watch Edward Gorey's "Gashlycrumb Tinies"- an Abecedarium as well but a supposedly humorous take on the grim text shown here.