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February 2019
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Homework
Wednesday
Homework
Friday
Homework
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Description Exercise: Portrait-Self Portrait / Pair-Pair / Outside Writer (purpose and viewpoint)
Writing an interesting article for the Newspaper? Genre (content [informative or opinion piece / sports, political, food, fashion, and advice columns], form [headline, byline, lead, explanation, and additional information], stance [viewpoint] / Rhetorical Situation (more details) / Dialogue (indirect vs. direct discourse)
Grammar Highlight: Comma (1,2,3)
HS Snow Makeup Day
5
Revise and add the description exercise done in class to Quip.  Then, review the paragraphs written by your group members and provide constructive suggestions/editing.
Challenge: Can your group create a newspaper version of the description that merges the information gained from each writing viewpoint (outside-inside)?  What is your stance and purpose?  Where does it fit into the newspaper?  Have you included any quotations?
Read Profiles (Norton 224-234) and consider the place of narration and description in the literary genre called “Profile”.
Start brainstorming and mindmapping your ideas for Essay 1.  
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Glimpse at: Newspaper Article
Explanation / Practice / Parts of Speech / Connective Words /  More Phrases and Clauses.
Key Concepts: Ekphrastic Description
Ekphrastic Description: Urn (2) / “Ode on a Grecian Urn” - Keats
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Write an ekphrastic description for Vermeer’s Milkmaid and place it on Quip.  If you are still working on your Essay, make sure this is done by Saturday.
Then, read: “Cezanne's Ports” and look at “Three for the Mona Lisa”
Review the paragraphs written by your group members and provide constructive suggestions / editing.
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Grammar Highlight: Fragments
Fragments /  Practice / Parts of Speech / Connective Words /  More Phrases and Clauses
Ekphrastic Description: Turner’s Slave Ship / Ruskin / Hazlitt
Apply Paramedic Method to our Ekphrasic Descriptions.  / (Practice)
Creating the Preliminary Bibliography
Essay 1
Incomplete Grade Changes
9-10
Revise and edit Essay 1.  Does your essay satisfy these criteria?
InQuizitive:Sentence Fragments
Quip: Make sure you have finished and edited all of the assignments by Saturday.
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Review Quip: Student Profile and Timeless Writing / Journalistic Writing and the Writer / Ekphrastic Description
Admin: From thesis to Preliminary Bibliography / Sample
More Phrases and Clauses. / Connective Words / What is a Run-on as opposed to a fragment?
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InQuizitive:Fused (Run-on) Sentences / Mixed constructions
Work on the Preliminary Bibliography


Credit by Exam
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At Home Reading
Key Concepts: Discourse, Metaphor, Nash’s typology of paragraphs
Read: Nash
Download and View: Paragraph Structure
Download and View: Shark’s Swim example
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At Home Homework
Complete this online quiz based on Nash's Metaphors.  
Note: You will need a web browser capable of displaying Flash files.  You may need to use Edge, Iexplore, Chrome, or add the Open in IE extension to Firefox.
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Reminder: Preliminary Bibliography / Sample  / Hanging Indent and Alphabetical Order
Review: Nash's Metaphors of Paragraph Structure / Step versus stack / Chain / Jelly Bean / A Confederacy of Dunces / Genesis / American Tabloid / A Farewell to Arms / Tale of Two Cities / Pick-up / Notes from the Underground


Preliminary Bibliography

 HS Early Dismissal
16-17
Read “Rebel Music” by Daniel Felsenfeld, Norton (640-643)
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Return to More phrases and clauses (focus infinitive, gerund, and participle phrases)
Key concepts: Person, Voice, Point of View / Stance (1,2, 3, 4) / How is stance related to person, voice, and point of view?  Persona (1)?
Daniel Felsenfeld Questions – Genre and Music Literacy


HS Snow Makeup Day
President's Day
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Read “Stance”, Norton (64-67
Read “S-5 Subject-Verb Agreement” Norton (HB 24-28)
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Divide the class and use the video to write a paragraph from each different person. / Now try persona (cat, grandmother, etc.)
Example of 1st mixed with 2nd : You Say You Want a Resolution? (1) / When is this appropriate?


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Study for the Midterm
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Midterm
23-24
Break into partners.  The first one will write a paragraph to a friend using the 1st person, an intimate or personal voice, and an ironic and biased stance about the following topic: “How to Impress a Professor.”  Next, the second one will rewrite this same paragraph using the 3rd person , a formal and serious voice, and informative and unbiased stance (to an audience of students, teachers, and parents).
Upload to your group’s folder on Quip.
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Feedback on 1st & 3rd person paragraphs.
Academic Writing and the 1st Person
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InQuizitive: Pronouns in the Wrong Case,Pronouns That Don't Agree with Their Antecedents, Pronouns with Unclear Reference, Subject-Verb Agreement Errors, Verb Tense and Verb Form Errors
Start reading sources for Annotated Bibliography
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Annotated Bibliography / Citation, Indirect and Direct Discourse, “Common Knowledge”, and Plagiarism (Def., MU, TRIO, Library, Norton, NIU (2), Rutgers)
Audience:
Aiming at the right audience: Describing your new significant other (1,2,3)
RO Sentences: More Practice
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Read: “Arguing” (355-373)
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At Home Reading
Read Analysis of  an Essay’s Argument and “A Woman’s Reality” and come to class having prepared an argumentative map of the "A Woman's Reality".
If you have not finished last night's homework, please, read that article first.  It can be found in the Norton Reader.
Midterm Grades due by 4pm
2-3
At Home Homework
After reading "A Woman's Reality" complete this Reading Quiz.  
Note: You will need a web browser capable of displaying Flash files.  You may need to use Edge, Iexplore, Chrome, or add the Open in IE extension to Firefox.
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