Last Week Before Break

Complete one blog entry for next class. The entry should deal with the 25-30 pages of text. While writing consider your other reading partner as your audience. Think about how this might affect your word choice.

Over the break, read approximately fifty pages of your independent book (roughly an hour of reading). Be prepared to discuss the first 125 pages of your independent reading upon return; we'll have an in-class timed writing. This will be much like the Half a Life exam.

Submitting Your Literacy Narratives

If you'd like, submit your stories to the HS's literary journal. Email your stories to Ms. Pettyway at alpettway@cng.edu

Reading Weekly

Read the first fifty pages of your memoirs by Friday or next Monday. In a blog entry, discuss what interests you or does not interest you about the book. If possible try guessing what might be the dominant tone of your memoir.

Here are some additional titles available for purchase only:

Here is our reading guide.

Literacy Narrative Rubric

In class, let's work on this literacy narrative rubric. What have we learned about writing in the past few weeks? What have our workshops been aiming towards?

Pathos, Logos, Ethos

You can review today´s lesson here. 

Writers Workshop Reminder

Don't forget to revise your literacy narratives to include appositive phrases. You should have them either written out, printed out, or on a computer or iPad. Phones aren't an effective device for revision.

Free At Last

Finish Douglass' memoir by Friday or next Monday. In your entry discuss why Douglass ends his memoir where he does. Remember his life continued and as we learned in the PBS documentary, there were many interesting developments. So why end his memoir there?

Quizzical!

We´ll have our first in class quiz. It´ll be a reading passage and ten questions. It will be a passage from Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass. It is a comprehension exam in general and from an actual AP Exam.

This will be in class next Friday the 19th or next Monday the 22nd, depending on when we meet. It will only be twenty minutes long.

Douglass' Struggle

As you read further into Douglass' journey, be sure to note Douglass' description of himself. According to Douglass, who is Douglass? This may seem trite, but is important for us in issues of rhetoric. This blog needs to be completed by Friday or Monday. Feel free to comment informally on one another's blogs as well.

Writers Workshop on Dialogue

You can find tips for writing dialogue here. We´ll be using this in class.

For next Writers Workshop bring in your completed literacy narrative drafts. This means completing what we began in class. You may also decide to scrap what you started. That´s part of a typical revision process.

Douglass' Purpose

For class on Friday or next Monday complete one reading blog. You might want to begin looking at purpose. Think about why certain details were included. What do they show?