Honors: Go to the Class Blog for your period (1 or 4) and answer the question posted there. Your answer should be approximately 100 - 200 words long and formed with grammatically correct complete sentences. (Sometimes it helps to type in Word first, use spell and grammar check, and then copy and paste). Before the next class, be sure to respond to two people's posts. Your responses should be between 25 - 50 words long.
Complete your rhetorical precis. (We'll work on this together.) Type your rhetorical precis using Microsoft Word. Format your paper correctly and add a internal header (last name and page number in the upper right hand corner), just as an exercise in learning how to do this. If you don't know how to format, see screen shot PP attached.
Upload your rhetorical precis to the turnitin.com account that you are now going to create.
www.turnitin.com
Turn in your annotations and your rhetorical precis worksheet.
HW: In the Bedford Reader, read pp 148-the top of 153 on Descriptive Writing. Then read the essay"Ladder" by Sven Birkerts. Be prepared to discuss the essay in class on Monday, Tuesday. Thanks!
Regular: Go to the Class Blog for your period (2 or 5) and answer the question posted there. Your answer should be approximately 100 - 200 words long and formed with grammatically correct complete sentences. (Sometimes it helps to type in Word first, use spell and grammar check, and then copy and paste). Before the next class, be sure to respond to two people's posts. Your responses should be between 25 - 50 words long.
We will write a rhetorical precis for Sherman Alexie's "Superman and Me" and post it on turnitin.com. See above for Word instructions.
Turn in your annotations and rhetorical precis worksheet.
HW: In the Bedford Reader, read pp 148-the top of 153 on Descriptive Writing. Then read the essay"Ladder" by Sven Birkerts. Be prepared to discuss the essay in class on Monday, Tuesday. Thanks!
Complete your rhetorical precis. (We'll work on this together.) Type your rhetorical precis using Microsoft Word. Format your paper correctly and add a internal header (last name and page number in the upper right hand corner), just as an exercise in learning how to do this. If you don't know how to format, see screen shot PP attached.
Upload your rhetorical precis to the turnitin.com account that you are now going to create.
www.turnitin.com
Turn in your annotations and your rhetorical precis worksheet.
HW: In the Bedford Reader, read pp 148-the top of 153 on Descriptive Writing. Then read the essay"Ladder" by Sven Birkerts. Be prepared to discuss the essay in class on Monday, Tuesday. Thanks!
Regular: Go to the Class Blog for your period (2 or 5) and answer the question posted there. Your answer should be approximately 100 - 200 words long and formed with grammatically correct complete sentences. (Sometimes it helps to type in Word first, use spell and grammar check, and then copy and paste). Before the next class, be sure to respond to two people's posts. Your responses should be between 25 - 50 words long.
We will write a rhetorical precis for Sherman Alexie's "Superman and Me" and post it on turnitin.com. See above for Word instructions.
Turn in your annotations and rhetorical precis worksheet.
HW: In the Bedford Reader, read pp 148-the top of 153 on Descriptive Writing. Then read the essay"Ladder" by Sven Birkerts. Be prepared to discuss the essay in class on Monday, Tuesday. Thanks!