Thursday, November 19, 2015

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

What you need to work on during Thanksgiving Break...

There are three things that will be due the week we come back from break.  Please stay on top of them.

1.  MC Practice #4 is due on 11/30.  We will also have a quiz that day.
2.  90/90 quizzes begin on 12/1.  Here is the list of terms you need to know.  The powerpoint is in the analysis folder.
3.  You need to read Huck Finn.  The quiz on Chapters 25-32 is on 12/3.



Thursday, November 12, 2015

Extra Credit Opportunity

I will give you 20 points extra credit in the writing category if you participate and enter one of the following categories.  (Only 1 submission will be worth extra credit, but feel free to enter both contests!!)

You must provide me with your essay/ editorial cartoon and proof of entry.  I would need this by December 7th.

Essay Contest
http://www.csus.edu/calst/LegiSchool_contests/2015EssayFlyer.pdf

Editorial Cartoon Contest
http://www.csus.edu/calst/LegiSchool_contests/2015_Art_Contest.pdf

Helpful Terms to Know for MC #4

Here are some terms that you will see on the MC #4 Quiz.  You can find them in the terms packet I gave you.  It has a black rhetorical triangle on the front.  If they are not in there, look online.  A large chunk have to do with sentence structure.

allusion
analogy
paradox
anaphora
antithesis
asyndeton
irony
epistrophe
polysydeton

Monday, November 9, 2015

Project Look-Around

Take some time today to look at the projects your classmates did.
1. Try to look at one of each type. Ex. padlet, wevideo, infographic, etc.
2. Look at a few others.
 3. Spend at least 10 minutes exploring other people's projects.
4. Then you can work on other stuff, like MC practice #4, read Huck Finn, etc,

 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lJyMA13XbA67hHrzRLe05vOgMUdkgSEAOHQhDpN5EqE


Also, here is the free audio for Huck Finn.

http://www.loudlit.org/works/hfinn.htm