Undercover Parent and Finals Info

Goals: Practice with rhetorical precis then share out the results.

Agenda: 
Read
Contents of your final
Writing a rhetorical precis
Share out

Contents of your final:
For your final you will be tested on multiple reading and writing skills. With a new article you must be able to do the following on your own:
Annotate to find claims, counterclaims, rebuttals, and evidence.
SOAPSTone
Charting the text
Write a rhetorical precis
Write an on-demand (in class) essay.

(Many of these will be done next week)

Today in class: 
Practice writing a rhetorical precis about Undercover Parent. You know the article very well by now so this should not be hard. Write in your English Journal.

Finals Schedule:
Thursday, June 11, periods 6 and 7
Friday June 12, periods 1 and 2
Monday June 15, periods 3 and 4

Charting the Text

Today's Goal: Work with the people around you to chart the text, "The Undercover Parent," to identify what the author is doing in each section.

The Plan:

1. Read!!
2. Quickwrite in your English Journal
3. Annotation of the article
4. Chart the text

Reminders:

• Next week you will be doing these activities on your own. Work with people now so it gets easier!
• Your final book review is due on June 10
• Call in your extreme sports essay if you haven't yet.
• See me if you have a grade for the Socratic Seminar that worries you.

The Quickwrite that goes in your English Journal:

1. What is Harlen Coben suggesting in "The Undercover Parent?"
2. What evidence does he use to support his opinion?

Charting the Text

Goal: Looking closely at what the author is saying and doing in "Extreme Sports Not About Risk Taking: Study."

Agenda: 

1. Read
2. Charting the text
3. Quick write (on the back of your charting the text paper)

Quick Write:

1. Choose ONE quote. Explain what you think the quote is telling us. (Yes, you've done this before, but there's a new quote!)
2. Explain how the quote applies to the article you were just working on about the study.  

“Security is a kind of death.”  -Tennessee Williams 

“The proper function of man is to live, not exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” -Jack London 

"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." -Sir Edmund Hillary

Charting the Text

Goal: Charting the Text of "Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes" to better understand what the author is saying and doing with the text.

Agenda: 

1. Read your book!
2. Open the Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes essay in your Google Drive.
3. Work with your partner and your group to complete the charting the text activity. This is where you spend time looking at specific paragraphs to identify how Vedantam is making his argument!

If you are absent, you'll need to get today's make up work from me. You can email me or talk to me in class.

Charting the Text

Alright, so we're not done with James McBride's article yet. Every time you read it, there is more to be found and understood and expanded upon. All of these activities will help you with the writing assignment you're going to get.

Today we're going to focus on how McBride has structured the text. I will give you a sheet in class (paper?!?!) to guide your analysis. It is due before the end of class today.

(If you are absent, email me and I will send you this to complete at home.)

Homework: Stylistic Analysis. Tonight you will look closely at the word choices McBride makes in his essay. (If you are absent email me and I will send you this to complete at home.)

Important Dates:

• Wednesday, January 14
• TWO book reviews due on Goodreads.
• I will ask you to give me your links in class. You will not have time to write them in class. 
• Click on the "Independent Reading/Book Reviews" tab at the top of the page for more information.
• Friday, January 16
• If you want to ask for a regrade on your NaNoWriMo document, you must send me and email by Friday.
• Click on the "NaNoWriMo Scoring" tab at the top of the page for more information.