H Expository Comp. period 5

 Dear Students--the lesson for today is simple-- simply select ANOTHER essay from either the DESCRIPTION or NARRATION section of Patterns For College Writing. Complete a SOAPS Analysis and an academic summary. That's it! Be ready to share and discuss on Monday! I hope everyone is well and thank you for all of the messages of concern! 

H. Expository Composition Period 5

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Expository Composition period 4

 1. Create a listing of Writing Territories based on my model or simply listing specific events or topics in YOUR LIFE. Aim for thirty. Give titles-- it makes you more committed to the ideas you present. 

2.  Read Chapter 6 the opening section on Narrative in our text: Patterns For College Writing. 

3. Read an essay from Chapter 6 Patterns for College Writing and complete a SOAPS Analysis and Summary OR read your own text from NY Times Commentary or Op-Ed; Sports Illustrated Commentary or Op-Ed; Time; The Huffington Post Communities, The Root; or a podcast of YOUR Choice.  

H/ Expos Comp Period 6

 1. Read Chapter 7 on Description in Patterns for College Writing. Then write at least a paragraph using description with: 1.  Your Morning or Nightly routine. 2. Your Bedroom 3. A Favorite Food or Place.

Honors Expository Composition period 6

 Today in class, we were to discuss the differences in descriptive technique after reading the Okefenokee Swamp Passage taken from the AP English Language Test. Today on your own, you will complete a WRITE-LIKE.  you will select the person, place, event or object and write about it mirroring the syntax of passage 2 in the Okefenokee Swamp passage.  You will need to read the passage to yourself several times and at least once out loud to begin to hear the rhythm of the passage and how sentences build off each other.  You may want to annotate the imagery and descriptive details not just of sight but also persona, size and number.   All of this is done and 7 sentences.  You will want your write like to begin with two adjectives and not introduce the subject of your description until the end of the first sentence. I will attempt to provide a template for you. Please work on this for period 6 and upload a draft no later than 2:30 pm today! 

Friday Freewrite--All Classes

1. As always, you may respond to a journal topic from previous weeks or you may write about whatever you would like. 

2.  As we near the end of a school term, write a letter to an underclassmen. In your letter, you may want to discuss the highs and lows of high school life, and habits to form in order to be successful. 

3. Read about Ahmad Arbery, George Floyd or Breonna Taylor--and write a eulogy in the form of a poem or haiku. 

4. Write about your summer plans.  What do you intend to do academically,  for relaxation and enjoyment, and for personal growth? 

Flip Grid Book Talks

Good Morning Students in All Classes! The Independent Reading Flipbooktalk windows have been extended for the Final Time.  If you never read the instructions, wrote a brief script and submitted your flipgrid video, the window has been extended for the last time to this Thursday at 12 noon. Get your videos in by that time! Window will lock then and will not be extended. This is for Period 1, 2, 4 and 5. Period 6, you did not have a Flip Grid Assignment.