National Novel Writing Month

Yes, we're quickly approaching the holiday season, that is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. The idea: write a novel in a month. Each day you must complete a word count. You also can interact with other novelists. The website provides you with "starters" to get your mind jogging if you're stuck for ideas.


If you complete it, you  can choose from a T-shirt or a mug.

Catching Up

Use Chapters 10-12 from Thank You For Arguing and analyze your own use of these techniques or lack thereof by Tuesday.

Draft Op-Ed

For tomorrow don't forget to bring a draft of an op-ed article. Here is an example.

Yours doesn't have to be as long, but should be complete.

Opinionated

Bring in your opinion article drafts either printed, on a computer or tablet for Writers Workshop.This means that cellular phones aren't acceptable.

Over the Weekend

Read and blog about Chapters 7-9. That is one entry for all of those chapters.

Try These

Here's a little warm-up for Writers Workshop.

The Unofficial Rules of Rhetoric

Read Chapter 5 and 6 and write one blog entry by Thursday or Friday. Choose a hollywood star or star athlete to use as an example of the concepts explained. Remember: stick to the key concepts.

Debate!

Read Chapters 1 and 2 of Thank You For Arguing and write a reading blog, relating the chapters contents to your own experiences with argumentation.

Seeming

As we step into the perilous although exciting world of rhetoric, I'd like you to create a video blog entry in which you assess yourself using this rubric - created by the high school. Do so by Writers Workshop Thursday or Friday.

Semi-Colon Exercise

Exercise here

Parallelism Quiz Here

Click on this.

Tie Up Loose Ends

While I understand that everyone has memoirs of varying difficulty and length, I would encourage you to finish your memoir before your return to class. Upon returning we'll have another timed writing exercise, regarding your outside reading.

Open Rubric

Here is the open google doc for our rubric. I wrote the criteria. You can fill in and edit all the rest.

Final draft is to be printed and stapled in the AP Lang and Comp inbox by Friday October 4th, 2:15pm.