Poetry For A New Age...

Follow this link to find your poetry assignment: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1416947191876877/

The Poetry Writing File can also be found on the x drive in Student Outboxes in the Laven folder and then in the English 11 - 5 folder!

Brains & Tenacity

With a little tenacity you too will learn to do a thing!

DOC ZONE

Superstitious Minds:

After watching the DOC ZONE video, "Superstitious Minds" respond to the questions provided in class. Use the questions to form a response to the film. Our "questioning " session should provide a question to guide your writing.

How does bias effect message in "Superstitious Minds"?
What is the role of superstition in determining luck?
Are superstitious people more likely to be affected by their beliefs?
You can certainly choose the question you wrote or one of the above.

Compose a multi-paragraph response that adresses the question and explores related ideas. In your writing consider using the devices we talk about in class... metaphor, simile, irony, personification.
The focus of evaluation will be on your ability to write a unified and coherent composition that addresses the question in a multiple paragraph format.

 

A graphic oragnizer will certainly help you to get the big ideas that you want to explore onto paper before you begin writing.

Non-Fiction Research Project

Independent Research Project - a study in non-fiction

IRP in CSI Style! Below is a sample graphic organizer - complete and submit a graphic organizer before building your presentation.

When you begin to compose your IRP think like a forensic investigator who is working to solve a case… You are putting the analysis before your audience, but to convince them of your message you must plan your presentation! (Not to say that your presentation will be a crime!) THINK CSI!

C = Claim. This is your introduction and should include an introductory slide. Present a short speech where you include these points:

• Introduce yourself: “Good morning fellow students. I am ________________ …”
• Credit th eauthor and mention the title of the book
• State the topic you are presenting: “…and I’d like to present you with _______...”
• Explain your claim: “This is relevant because ___________...”

S = Support. Speak to your audience about your topic. This is the BULK of your presenation. 

§         Show your PowerPoint, ComicLife, or any other audio/visual aid. The following points you should either explain as the presentation is being given or should be part of the presentation: Give structure to your presentation - at least three content slides.

 

1.      Prove why the topic you have chosen is important.

2.      Supply facts, anecdotes and statistics to strengthen your support.

3.      Include pictures, interviews, sound or video clips and tie these together to fully explore the topic you have chosen.

 

I = Impact. Tell your audience why your topic is relevant to them. These are your concluding statements and should be accompanied by a concluding slide.

• State why the information you have shared is relevant to your audience.
• Explain how the information you presented might affect your audience.
• Thank your audience for their attentiveness and ask for questions.

Kite Runner: Assignment 3 - 5 in 1

Theme

Great stories, like the one you are reading are often great because they convey themes. Theme is defined as a message that the writer wishes you to get from his story.

The central idea may be expressed as a singular encompassing theme, while at the same time there are often lesser themes within the story.

Theme is expressed as a complete thought:

§  War is a futile endeavour that is best avoided, by both leaders and their citizens.

§  The bonds of blood are often stronger than those forged by friendship.

Prepare a 5 in 1 and post it to your blog: you may post it as a picture or compose the 5 in 1 on your blog and add a picture:

Components:

 

1. Write a theme that you feel best encompasses the author’s central idea in the novel that you are reading. 

2. Write a paragraph that explains how the theme is developed in the novel.

3. Quote a few lines that you feel best capture the theme. Cite the quotation according to AMA format.

4. Create an image that you feel best captures the theme. (Think of an image that reflects the themes above: bonds of family vs. bonds of friendship or the futility of war. How would you draw these themes?

5. Write a title that encompasses all of the other elements of this assignment!

The Kite Runner

Novel Study: Paragraph 2 

Any good story has a conflict, and conflict is the direct outgrowth of a causative incident (CI). From the story that you are reading, identify the CI and write about how that CI came about and what likely conflict it will foment.

Writing the paragraph: unity and coherence:

A paragraph is unified when it stays on topic.

A paragraph is coherent when the point made is clearly made. 

To achieve unity and coherence write a paragraph that outlines the CI and indicates what likely conflict will transpire. 

The criteria for this paragraph: 

• Maintaining unity
• Achieving coherence
• writing in active sentences
• using at least one correlative conjunction

To add style to your writing play with your words. Add a hook that you return to in the concluding sentence.

 

 

Example:

            (hook) When you look around at others you probably assume that people are all the same - and that only you are different. Well, in that regard we are all the same - we each like to think that we are the different one! In Sherman Alexie’s novel, Part Time Indian, the main character, Junior, likes to think that he is unique. This wildly original thinking, though, is what leads to the causative event in this book. Junior, a Okanagan native boy, leaves his rez school in central Washington to attend a white school in the nearby town of Reardon. Because he’s fought with his teacher at his reservation school, Junior makes the decision to attend Reardon High School, and consequently finds himself between two worlds, the world of his native heritage and his adopted white culture. Without a doubt this causative incident should lead to plenty of conflict, in the variety of both man versus man and man versus self. So, the next time that you are looking around to see that everyone else is the same, give your head a shake and realize that there are as many differences as there are people out there! (clincher)

Paragraph # 1 Quotable Quotes

When Syme gets Vaporized

While reading the novel select one quotation which “strikes” you and write it down. Include a proper reference to the quotation you select.

Example: “One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized.” (Orwell, 1948, p. 56) Notice that below I have modified the quotation.

The reason for selecting a specific quotation should be because it…

 
Annoys you…
Angers you…
Inspires you…
Frustrates you…
Makes you think…
Confuses you…
Reminds you…
Etc.

Copy verbatim the quotation and reference accordingly. State which of the above apply to the selected quotation.

1. Tie the quotation to the story in such a way as to give a bit of background to it.
2. In a clearly structured paragraph respond to the quotation with an explanation about why the quotation addresses one of the above concerns. (topic sentence, developing sentences and concluding sentence)

 

Example:

• When Winston thinks, “One of these days... Syme will be vaporized” (Orwell, 1948, p. 56) it angers me to think that the protagonist lives in a society where he is able to consider that his friends or even his coworkers might just disappear one day. That they would disappear for having committed a thought-crime makes the realization of the absolute control of the totalitarian government even more repugnant. Winston, through the voice of the narrator, muses on the myriad ways that people in his society can merely disappear, and then even disappear from all references - as if they had never existed. I would like to think that if I lived in such a society that I, too, would be a rebel. I’d like to think that I would join forces with others to overthrow such an authoritarian regime. But what chance would I have. If I had grown up in such a regime, how would I know what political system would better afford the freedom that I so desperately craved?