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?

Writers Workshop: Embedding Quotations

Revisions

Revise your first blog entry, incorporating what we learned in Writers Workshop this week about embedded quotations. Have those revisions ready for our next class (be it Friday or next Monday).

Douglass

For Wednesday, complete one reading blog in response to Fredrick Douglass´s memoir.