ADVANCED COMPOSITION HOMEWORK ALLEY

Please always right-click "refresh" to be sure that you are viewing the most updated pages! HW #30 Complete your Post-Course Reflection, type up your favorite 3 journal entries, and work on revising your essays. Make sure all polished work is on your U Drive. If you email yourself your work, send as attachments as work pasted in the body of an email loses its formatting and becomes a pain to deal with for the publication. Next class, I will introduce you to the Desktop Publishing so make sure that you have polished work to use. Send/save yourself the illustrations for each work. Remember, you can use photos, Internet images, your own artwork, whatever. Just be sure that you have access to it from yoru school U drive. All photos and essays must be in your U Drive, so start saving from an email as soon as you get in to the lab (where we'll be meeting for the rest of the term). What's your style? Have a flavor ready. I strongly urge you to have at least one magazine with you to emulate, not an online version. HW #29 Revise your process essay and compelte the Writer's Response. Packet: Writer REsponse, 1 double spaced final draft, all peer edits, 1 rough. ALSO: Please make sure you have ALL your work from this semester on the computer: Significant Moment, Bio of Influence, Outside Reading Writings, Multi-Genre, in class process assignment, Process Essay, any favorite writings from other classes this year [poetry/short stories/essays, and bring your journal entries from the 1st MP. Please bring your Models for Writers and The Stranger, too. Also begin looking and emailing yourself photos that help illustrate your writing for your portfolio magazine. If you have only a photo, we can scan it in class. FYI: since your portfolio will look like a magazine, you may bring in a "model" to emulate. For instance, if you love Rolling Stone, bring it in! Or, Seventeen. Or, whatever. HW #28 You worked alone or with a partner during class to complete the warm up exercise -- a step by step with POV. That was your intro to subtext. 1. Now, choose your essay topic. Over two class periods, you will write an approximately 1000 word process analysis (either informational or directional) that clearly defines and develops steps. 2. Outline the steps (list the order or create a flowchart). 3. Clearly explain what your subtext or thesis is. In other words, your essay will use the process to reveal a truth. Your essay will be extremely dull (only a technical piece) if you don't have subtext. Student Samples -- Proof that you can write about practically anything!: Tonsil Hockey 101 How To Take an Ap Latin Exam How to Get Ready for School, An Excerpt from an Alien Guide What Taking the SATs is Really Plastic Bottle Weapon So You Want To Be On Page 6 How to Change a Baby's Diaper How to Create a Masterpiece Types of Process Analysis Tips for Thinking Through Process Essay HW #27 Read "...Computer...Evil Wizard..." essay on 379 in Models book (which you need to bring to class!) and answer on loose-elaf to be collected: 1. What is the processs and what TYPE of process is it? 2. What is the subtext? #. What is the author's tone? HW #26 Have at least half your essay completed for class today. Be sure to have it available ON COMPUTER as we will be in the lab... HW #25 Please create a thesis for your Multi-Genre Absurd/Existential Essay Assignment and complete an Outline. Stranger Than Fiction (script) If you struggle with the outline, create a thesis and see me or visit the Writing Center (room 212) before the due date. PLEASE DO NOT COME TO CLASS UNPREPARED! HW #24 Reread and/or think about what we read in Line in class. How does this text fit into the absurd/existential genre? What is each character's philosophy? How does each spend the time? What choices does each make? What is the line for? HW #23 Write a brief composition that provided text based evidence that supports that The Misunderstanding is an absurd text. Remember, when composing literary analysis, start with an assertion, then back with evidence, and then, don't forget to ANALYZE! Aim for at least three solid examples. HW #22 Finish ACT II (to page 37) in The Misunderstanding + quiz. Jess: The Misundertanding Online HW #21 Read pages 3-13 in The Misunderstanding + quiz. Jess, Everett: The Misundertanding Online HW #20 Finish the novel! Read 5 in PArt II. HW #19 Read chapters 3 and 4 in PART II. There will be a quiz. Bring journal to class! HW #18 Read chapters 1 and 2 in PART II. There will be a quiz. Bring journal to class! HW #17 Finish part I -- read chapters 5 & 6 in The Stranger. There will be a reading quiz -- passage ID. Please make sure you bring your journal to class. HW #16 Read chapters 3 & 4 in The Stranger. There will be a reading quiz -- passage ID. Please make sure you bring your journal to class. HW #15 Read chapters 1 & 2 in The Stranger. There will be a reading quiz -- passage ID. Please make sure you bring your journal to class. Those of you who did not present in class for BOOK TALK will do so this class. You are welcome to bring treats again... HW #14 Prepare your Book Talk passage and bring in the food item you signed up for.... [If you were absent, please see me or email me and I can tell you what you could bring: Ben, Harry, Julia] I gave out our next reading, The Stranger. If you were absent, please be sure to secure a copy! What to expect for the Outside Reading Test There will be two class periods allotted to write about your outside reading book. Bring your active reading notes and book (it's open book after all, and you will be a clear disadvantage if you forget it). You will be asked to write several different types of responses. You will be graded on: clarity (organization, logic, fluidity of prose), development (how thoroughly you illustrate your points using specifics from the text and appropriate analysis/insight), and effort. This is your chance to prove that you read, and that you read with purpose. 1) A review (opinion on the book) using specifics from the text. Whether you liked the book, hated, had mixed feelings, consider what three reasons you could give to support that position. You will develop each "reason" with specifics from the text. 2)Analyze how the subject is characterized. Consider what he/she thinks, says, does, how others perceive him/her, treat him/her, etc. Is the character static (stays the same) or dynamic (changes)? What key questions might an interviewer have for him/her? 3)Conflict Analysis. Identify the major conflict/s and be able to identify how it is developed and if it's resolved. 4)Theme and Passage. Identify the dominant theme/s of the memoir/biography and find short passage/s that illustrate/s it. Be sure to analyze how/why the passage/s illustrate the theme/s. You may have only one theme that is developed with 3 passage analyses or 2-3 themes illustrated with a passage for each. Total is 3... All responses will be submitted to turnitin.com. Save time and register now with the class. ID #:2661114 Password:surfturk. HW #13 Work on your bio essay, making doubly sure to send/save yourself a backup copy just-in-case to be able to work on it next class. Aim to complete about half! Again, your essay may be between 500-1000 words. Aim to incorporate dialogue, analogy/metaphor/simile, anecdote, sensory imagery -- all to create a dominant impression of your subject and how he/she has impacted/influenced/changed/inspired/ruined you. Remember, what you choose to include (or omit) tells a lot about you! If you were absent from Wednesday's class [Ivan, Jess], review your Bio Essay Pre-Writing Assignment and make sure you have succeeded in achieving the "right" snapshots to illustrate your dominant impression goal. Be sure to show Ms. Holze your completed Bio Essay Pre-Writing Assignment for credit and half half your essay completed for next class. HW #12 Choose the person you want to write about for your next essay (Common App question #2: Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence). Complete The Bio Essay Pre-Writing Assignment with effort. We'll meet in the lab next class. HW #11 Complete JOURNAL #8 in your journal. HW #10 Complete JOURNAL #7 in your journal. HW #9 Complete JOURNAL #5 in your journal. HW #8 Work on your essay! You should aim to be about half finished by next class. Remember, the more you have available, the more feedback you can get! Don't forget to send yourself a backup on a different email. HW #7 This is it. It's time to write your personal narrative essay. Choose your significant moment essay topic.(You may refer to the Common Application question #1, "1. Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.") Write THREE differnt introductions. First choose the time (before/background, in the sig moment, or aftermath), and then choose a device (dialogue, anecdote, analogy, irony, fact -- see page 133 and following in your Models book for examples. Be sure to clearly labe the time and device for each and DEVELOP each. Remember, an intro is not just a paragraph in these types of essays.... It is preferable that you type and have it available on email/in school. We'll be meeting the lab, sharing the intros with our peers, and working on our essay.... If you would like to write the essay, go for it! You'll get feedback in class! HW #6 Complete JOURNAL #4 in your journal. HW #5 Complete JOURNAL #3 in your journal. HW #4 Please read the seven written essays in the packet you were given and rank them from best to worst. Please justify why you gave each essay its rank. You will need to be able to defend your opinion to the class. You may write on the essay packet. HW #3 Complete JOURNAL #2 in your journal. HW #2 Please have parents sign the Absence Contract. (10 pts) HW #1 Please complete the Pre-Course Reflection Statement for next class. Be sure to think it through and type it (1 page single spaced, please). This will later serve as the first page to your course portfolio. (25 points) JOURNAL ENTRIES [All journal entries are worth 10 points unless otherwise noted!] 3rd Marking Period Significant Moment Journal Entries: Good School Memory. Describe a positive experience you had in school that made you proud, motivated you, and/or inspired you. Describe the experience and its impact. Bad School Memory. Describe a negative lesson you learned in school . It could be a social lesson, a lesson about character, a mistake you made, etc. Develop the experience and show how it has impacted you. Conflict with Parent. Describe a time a parent wanted you to do something you weren't exactly thrilled about. What happened? Was there a "winner" to the conflict? How did you feel? How did they feel? What was the aftermath and how has it impacted your relationship and/or your individuality and/or your growing up and/or your feelings about the thing in question? Provide vivid details to get us in the moment. Meaningful Possession. Think back to an object that meant a lot to you in your past. Show how this object was important. Why did you value it so much? How did you come to attain it? What does this object reveal about you? Consider its impact on you... Me Adjectives/Inner Pirate. I What five adjectives would you use to describe yourself? Provide a brief snapshot for each (a moment that illustrates the quality you chose). II Then, ask FIVE other people to give you FIVE adjectives (each) that they would use to describe you. They don't have to explain themselves. You should feel free to include positives and negatives. Good Teacher. Describe a teacher or coach who has had a positive influence on you. Provide specific details/events that illustrate this influence. Good Family. Describe a family member who has had a positive influence on you. Provide specific details/events that illustrate this influence. Unexpected Influence. Sometimes when we meet someone, we have no idea important that person will become to us later. Describe the first meeting with someone who later became very important to you. Were your first impressions accurate? Were there clues about how this person would impact you? It can be a negative or positive impact. Biography Essay Journal Entries Title. Complete one two sided entry of your choice from the Bio Journals list. Two sides, please! Title. Complete one two sided entry of your choice from the Bio Journals list. Two sides, please! Title. Complete one two sided entry of your choice from the Bio Journals list. Two sides, please! Title. Complete one two sided entry of your choice from the Bio Journals list. Two sides, please! Title. Complete one two sided entry of your choice from the Bio Journals list. Two sides, please! Reaction to Outside Reading FREE WRITE . Write a response to the book you read, free writing the whole time. Do not stop writing. What was interesting about the work? Did the author present a compelling story about the person's life? What, if any, parts resonate with you walking away from the text? 15 minutes. ADVANCED COMPOSITION HANDOUTS General Course Description Absence Policy Pre-Course Reflection Statement Old Calendars Notebook Rubric Recommendation Etiquette Writer's Response Intros Task Worksheet Portfolio Requirements Portfolio Rubric Sample Home Page Generic Literary Essay Outline Multi-Genre Outline Show Verbs Analyze Literature Guide Literary Terms Dictionary English Regents Archived Exams Study Guide for Literature Biography Bio Journals Bio College Essay Assignment Biography Essay Assignment Biography Pre-Writing Intros Task: Choose 3 Different Openers Peer Editing for the Biography Essay Writer's Response Bio Rubric Definition Essay “The Real Meaning of Evil” Definition Essay Assignment Definition Essay Pre-Writing Task Online Etymology Dictionary Take Our Word Etymology Student Model Definition Essay "A Jerk" + Outline Peer Editing the Definition Essay Writer's Response IQ Stuff Students always ask about IQ tests when we read "How I Got Smart" and "Smart Guy" About IQs "Classical" IQ Test (Should be based on Stanford-Binet Test) Wechsler IQ Test Personality & Aptitude Test Variety of Tests More Free Tests Journal Pay Attention Entries Multi-Genre Essay Multi-Genre Outline Multi-Genre New York Asignment How to Figure Out a Thesis Statment for the Multi-Genre Essay Peer Editing for the Multi-Genre Essay Student Sample Multi-Genre Essay Outside Reading Outside Reading Assignment Reader Response Guidelines How to Write a Book Review Sample Book Reviews Book Review Rubric Outline Business Letter Sample Quote Page Guidelines Peer Editing for Expository Essay Peer editing for the Outside Reading Essay Personal Narrative Childhood Memory Pre-Writing College Common Application Questions Intro to the Personal Narrative Intros for the Personal Narrative The Personal Narrative Organization the Personal Narrative Student Sample Significant Moment: Making the Bed Student Sample Significant Moment: ADHD Remember the Dialogue Peer Edit Significant Moment Essay Other Peer Editing Method Personal Narrative Self Review Worksheet Personal Narrative Rubric College Essay Rubric Task I Personal Narrative Exercise Essay Writer's Response Personal Writing Prompts Persuasive/Argument Essay Listening and Writing Task: Cat Article Assignment Argument Essay Exercise: Cooperative Learning Intro to the Argument Essay Logical Fallacies Prompts for the Argument Essay Outline for Five Paragraph Argument Outline Model Argument Essay: Cat Essay Writing an Indirect or Direct Intro for the Argument Essay Writer's Response Peer Edit the Argument Essay Argument Essay Rubric Constructing a Solid Paragraph Peer Editing for Argument Essay #2 REGENTS TASK A: Speechwriting Essay Process Analysis Intro to Process Analysis How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich Exercise Dissect a Process Analysis: HO #2, How to Write a Letter Process Analysis HO #3: How to Eat an Ice Cream Cone Using Inspiration to Dissect an Informational Process Analysis: HO #4 Generic Process Topics to Get You Thinking Sample Student Essay: Process and the SATs Sample Student Essay: How to Annoy Sibling Sample Student Essay: Process and a Kiss Process Student Sample: "How to Take Latin Ap Exam" Process Student Sample: "Tonsil Hockey 101" Process Student Sample: "Cat and Dog" Sample Student Essay: Julia's Process Essay Sample Student Essay: Burgundy's Process Essay The Process Analysis Essay Process Analysis In-Class Exercise Process Essay Assignment and Basics Pre-Planning My Process Analysis Essay Planning My Process Analysis: The Outline Peer Editing the Process Analysis Process Analysis Rubric Writer's Response Regents Study Guide for Literature Supersize Me: Regents Task I Multi Genre Song Comparison Essay Analyze Literature Guide Literary Terms Dictionary Find a poem at poets.org Listening and Writing Task: Cat Article Assignment Research Paper Expository Essay Promt Research Essay Assignment Brain Storm for Research Index Card Model Outline Research Citation Guide Paranthethical Citations Peer editing the Research Paper Power Point Assignment Writer's Response Research Paper Rubric The Stranger Stuff Vocabulary Game Part I 1-3 Camus' Philosophy Worksheet The Stranger Group Work Chapter 1 Reader's Theater Philosophy Presentation Topics and Assignment Script Tips Albert Camus Web Quest Group Work (chapters 1-3) The Stranger Group Work Chapter 1 The Stranger: Irony Worksheet The Stranger Take Home Test Killing an Arab Song Lyrics Stranger Group Work Part II: 1-2 Myth of Sisyphus Literary Circles Roles Meursault Character Chart The Stranger Mock Trial Roles The Misunderstanding The Stranger and The Misunderstanding Essay Assignment old The Stranger & Misunderstanding Essay Assignment new Multi-Genre (Stranger/Misunderstanding Essay Literary Analysis for The Stranger and Misunderstanding Multi-Genre Outline Outline for The Stranger & The Misunderstanding Stranger Than Fiction (script) I Heart Huckabees Script Arsenic and Old Lace Script Waiting for Godot Peer Editing for The Stranger/The Misunderstanding Essay Rubric for Literary Analysis Stranger/Misunderstanding/Line/Waiting for Godot Essay Six Characters in Search of an Author (Luis Pirandello) Web Stuff Online Portfolio Guidelines Sample Home Page How to Post Your Work Online Go to Geocities AAA Backgrounds Pimp Web Page HTML Goodies (make your pages really cool) Background City Flaming Text Color Codes Awesome Backgrounds Cool Retro Clipart School Clip Art Smileys Good Clipart Holiday Clipart Discovery School Clip Art Animated Clips Style Sheet Icon Bazaar Clip art Searcher Free Clipart DHTML Codes (like funky cursors) HTML Help Dave's HTML Resource Center (backgrounds, graphics, buttons, etc.) HTML Tutorial An HTML Tutorial Free Music For web Pages Photo Clipart Greek Backgrounds Soup Faerie Backgrounds Photo and Image Search Engine Buttons and Banners Mediabuilder (animated text, etc.) Clipart Gallery Intro to Javascript Collage Assignment HOME | MAIN MENU | EMAIL V. 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