H. Expository Composition period 2

1. Finish your Expository Text of the Week SOAPS. Remember, it has to be from the Narration Section or must be from Radio Rookies.
2. Public Narratives: As learned and discussed briefly in class, the public debate can change with time, and across different groups.  Following are ten issues.  Pick those issues that you are knowledgeable about and then write down what seems to be the public debate on these issues. Know that as a minority there is a such thing as the "general" public debate, and the "my group" public debate. You can respond to the following subjects from your view as a minority or the 'general public'
1. Police Officers      2. Confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh            3. NFL Players
4.  Nike Shoes, Inc.    5.  Black Lives Matter          6. #MeTooMovement    7. Charter Schools
8. Gentrification         9. Apple I-Phone         10. November Mid-Term Elections

H. Expository Composition Beginning Unit#2: Narration

Today, we will read and analyze the following essay that are in part narrative:

1. Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan
Homework: 1. Read another Narrative Essay from Patterns for College Writing.  Remember, it must be a narrative essay. Then complete your SOAPS, but also include a response to the question: Why does the author remember this incident when so many others have been forgotten?

Begin two separate and distinct narratives. One that could possibly be used in your College Admission Personal Insight Question.  Your narrative should clearly and specifically be used for one of the UC Questions OR a general admissions question.

2. Begin a narrative about something else...perhaps a time you felt embarrassed or out of place; your journey to the California; Los Angeles, or even the United States; a time you learned an important lesson; or you can write three paragraphs about each of these if you don't remember enough on one specific topic.

AP English Literature

Reading: Finish Reading Oedipus Rex. If you do not have the text, scroll down to the online downloadable versions. Remember to take notes, jot down meaningful and memorable passages or quotes or statements. 

H. Expository Composition

Appositive Phrase Practice. Complete Practice Exercises 1-5; and and 5 from 11-18. Handout is here:
Appositive Practice PDF

AP Literature Modelling Toni Morrison

Creative Writing. Using the passage from Paradise by Toni Morrison as a model, think of an abstract concept (love) that you would like to make concrete by use of metaphor. Compose a response in which you state that your abstraction is something concrete. Also attempt to use the conventions that Mrs. Morrison uses in her example: antithesis (balanced opposites); parallelism achieved through repetition--alliteration; anaphora. Dont forget to have a metaphor in your composition.! Be ready to share tomorrow in class.

H. Expository Composition period 2

Good Morning,
Please follow the agenda for Period 2.
1. Engage in Friday Freewrite.  Two volunteers can pass out journals or all can write on their own regular notebook paper if cabinets are locked.
2. Be sure to submit hard copy or Schoology final draft descriptive essay. NO emailed copies.
3. Finish worksheet from yesterday on Objective and Subjective Description.
4.  Think of your favorite celebrity, or athlete; or entertainer or someone the class would know.  Write a description of that person using objective and subjective description.  On Tuesday, we will take turns seeing if we can identify the personage based on your description of him or her.

H. Expository Composition

1. Select your favorite item of clothing; favorite pair of shoes, favorite place in your house. Identify them and begin jotting down adjectives and sensory details for each.
2. Reflection: What advice did you receive that you feel was correct or precise, or most helpful? Why was it helpful to provide feedback and receive it as well? Write a two paragraph minimum reflection on the process of giving and receiving feedback--being a mentor and mentee.
3. SOAPS----yes!
4. Final Drafts of Descriptive Essays are due this Friday.  NO papers accepted past Monday. Late papers incur penalty of 20% since Friday is Friday.