Today: I collected the USSR sheet. We learned three new words: manifesto, relegate and reclusive.
You are being TESTED this week.
WHAT KIND OF LEARNER ARE YOU? Are you ready to write this paragraph on your own? If not, what would you like to do to learn how to write a paragraph.
Bring your plan to class tomorrow.
Due Thursday (if you are ready)
a typed, double-spaced, edited, literary paragraph which demonstrates everything you have learned about answering questions with innovative thesis statements
Question: What does the story, "Want to Play House? by Leon Rooke, reveal about the influence parents have on their children?
You must GO BEYOND THE OBVIOUS. I must learn something about the story based on your paragraph. Tell me something that you figure out.
Don't say in your response: Negative role models create negative citizens.
We probably know that already, don't we?
Instead, say what the story makes you think about? What details in the story really catch your attention? Are they symbolic? Ironic? Funny? Emotional? Do they foreshadow? Does the story interest you? Why or why not? The subject matter is a very serious problem in our society. What does Rooke's story make us do?
Criteria
Length
Style
Insight
Editing
Use all the handouts:
- Literary Must-Haves
- Vocabulary List
- How to Integrate Quotations
- How to Cite Quotations
- How to write strong thesis statements
- Use the five paragraph examples in your notebook
- Teacher
- Peers
- Tutors
- Parents
- Student Services Department
- Internet
You will be writing your own story about an aspect of society that you would like to change or that you want to make the reader think about.
- peer pressure
- gangs
- bullying
- effects of ads on self image
- hat rule at Claremont
- some contention that bothers you
- divorce / family life
- judging others on appearance
- infiltration of NHL with non-Canadians
- something that you think about a lot or that you have read in the paper
