#12 Essay due 11/22 Persuasive (opinion) Essay using a 6-paragraph (or "section) internal structure (organization). Must include logos, pathos, and ethos. Include a clear one-sentence thesis statement (with a debatable claim and three evidences) somewhere within the first paragraph. Should have an attention-getting title, interesting hook, and strong conclusion. Rhetorical Devices/appeals that must be applied: Logos=logic Pathos=emotion Ethos-authority What each paragraph or section should include: #1 Thesis/Claim with 3 evidences (reasons) #2 Evidence #1 #3 Evidence #2 #4 Evidence #3 #5 Counter Claim #6 Conclusion Helpful links: #11 Essay due 11/17 What type of person would you like to be with for the rest of your life? What character traits would they have? How would others' see them? If you have children with them, what kind of parent would you like them to be? #10 Essay due 11/10 What if you could be the person you ultimately want to be deep down inside). What character traits would you have? How would people see you? How would you see yourself? #9 Essay due 10/27 Halloween Scary Story for school competition. Criteria: Long enough, good enough to do the trick. #8 Essay due 10/20 Extended Essay #7 to 3 pages #7 Essay due 10/13--Your "wish." Prewrite, one wish 10 minute journal write.. Clip re Immanuel, young handicapped man from Iraq performing on X-factor. Rewrite wish prompt in essay form focusing on "a wish" with deeper meaning. Minimum criteria absolute. Must have attention grabbing title and parent/peer edit/response. #6 Essay due 10/6--The Importance of names and how they influence identity. Take an alternative perspective then you chose in Essay #5 but keep it focused on names and identity. Make sure you include a creative title and meet basic criteria for grading. Have a parent and a peer read your paper. Ask them to edit if they would like (optional), but to be sure and write a comment and then sign. #5 Essay due 9/29--The Importance of names and how they influence identity BW--Journal Prompt Format a lined sheet of paper you can take home with the EPF: According to poet T.S. Elliot, cats have three names--1) and every day name, 2) a peculiar name, 3) a name only he, the cat knows, that he calls himself. Relate the poem to yourself. If you had three names like a cat does, what would they be? Talk about each name and explain why and how it applies to you. What does it say about you? What do names have to do with who we are? Where do names come from? Are we influenced by our names? What do they say about our heritage? Our culture? Our identity? This is the prewirte for Essay #5. the topic is how names influence identity. This essay should include 1) Prewrite (this paper) 2) R Draft (typed) 3) Draft you turn in (corrected for conventions, spelling, sentence fluency) 4) 2 responses/edits (guardian/peer) Make sure you include a creative title and meet basic criteria for grading. Have a parent and a peer read your paper. Ask them to edit if they would like (optional), but to be sure and write a comment and then sign. #4 Essay due 9/22/2011--Topic is detail a search for something positive (something beautiful, awesome, fun, interesting, attractive, breathtaking, incredible, loving,, etc.). Use five different figurative devices (alliteration, personification, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, imagery, idiom, etc.) One device must be a simile; one device must be a metaphor--the other three are your choice. Have a parent and a peer read your paper. Ask them to edit if they would like (optional), but to be sure and write a comment and then sign. #3 Essay due 9/15/2011--Topic is detail a search for something positive (something beautiful, awesome, fun, interesting, attractive, breathtaking, incredible, loving,, etc.). Prewrite by reading the book Something Beautiful (in-class power point and taking notes of the last slide). Use five different figurative devices (alliteration, personification, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, imagery, idiom, etc.) One device must be a simile; one device must be a metaphor--the other three are your choice. Have a parent and a peer read your paper. Have a parent and a peer read your paper. Ask them to edit if they would like (optional), but to be sure and write a comment and then sign. #2 Essay due 9/8/2011--Prewrite by going to a specific location and recording what you see, smell, taste, hear, feel.. Write a 1.5 page essay of this place. Include a beginning that captures reader's attention. Use as much imagery (5-senses) detail as possible. Underline examples of imagery. |
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