Friday, October 27, 2017

October 30 - November 3

Happy Halloween!  We will celebrate Halloween, the end of a long month without any holidays or breaks, and, last but not least, the full, solid rough drafts that the class finished and uploaded. 

MONDAY/TUESDAY: Journal warm-up.  Special Halloween reading of classic American horror writer Edgar Allen Poe's The Cask of Amantillado, The Raven with modern anime-style drawings and lyrics, and a modern sci-fi horror short.  I'll bring some treats; feel free to bring food to share with no peanuts or tree nuts, please.

Due: For this Sunday night, October 29, please upload your final draft of the Green/Carson/Kelley rhetorical analysis prompt to your class period's Turnitin.com section by 11:00 p.m.  Be sure to get a confirmation that shows you submitted it and e-mail it to mogilefskya@pvpusd.net if you have any issues.  

Homework: Study for vocab quiz at the end of the week.

WEDNESDAY: (4th and 6th periods only) Current event day - read, annotate, and analyze two arguments on different sides of an issue, debate and discuss, and vote.  (SAT/Rhetorical analysis practice with the reading and analysis, and ACT/Argument/Synthesis practice with the discussion and debate using evidence.)

Due: n/a

Homework: Study for quiz on Friday.

THURSDAY/FRIDAY: Journal warm-up.  Quiz covering vocab and grammar only. Frederick Douglass reading - Chapter 6.  Figurative language challenge in groups.

Due: n/a

Homework: Please read and annotate Chapters 7-9 of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.  Bring 2 examples of the most effective figurative language from the weekend reading for next class.

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