Junior+Writing

= = =Honors Junior Narrative, Exposition, and Research=

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 * Every few weeks, take the Participation Reflection survey.**

The following document demonstrates correct parenthetical citation format and Works Cited format.

Use the following file to view the Keynote presentation highlighting templates for "They Say" / "I Say" and 10 persuasive techniques

You should have assembled one source from each of the five categories: If you are missing any of these categories, actively seek out this category of source to answer any remaining questions you have on your topic.
 * Newspaper/magazine article (from on-line or print source)
 * On-line info from reputable website
 * Cartoon/photo/ad/graph/chart/map or other non-print source
 * Personal interview with knowledgeable subject
 * Segment from TV/radio (BBC, NPR, 60 Minutes, Oprah, local news...)

and complete Works Cited ||= 5/19 ||
 * < ===Assignment=== ||= ===**Date Due**=== ||
 * < Notes #8 and Concept Map ||= 5/12 ||
 * < Notes #9 and Synthesis #4 ||= 5/17 ||
 * < Notes #10
 * < Opening hook/introduction ||= 5/21 ||
 * Rough draft - 1st half ||= 5/25 ||
 * Rough draft - 2nd half ||= 5/27 ||
 * Peer editing ||= 6/1 ||
 * Final paper due - **NO LATE DAYS!** ||= 6/3 ||
 * Presentations ||= 6/7 ||
 * Presentations ||= 6/9 ||
 * Wrap-up - revisions to paper due ||= 6/11 ||
 * Final exam 7:50-9:10 ||= 6/16 ||

Dig deeper into your topic
Find an article from **MINERVA: ProQuest Newpapers** that would expand your current knowledge of your topic.

You may search these sites individually but ProQuest is faster:

New York Times Newspaper
http://www.nytimes.com/

Portland Press Herald
http://www.pressherald.com/

London Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/

BBC World News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/

NPR: National Public Radio, News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts
http://www.npr.org/

Read, annotate, and fill out analysis worksheet on one article by end of period OR before next class.

Homework for April 13, 2010
Finish synthesis essay defending, challenging, or qualifying the claim that the memoirist’s commitment to the truth is of absolute importance in memoir writing. Synthesize at least three sources, remembering to interweave sources within subpoints in paragraphs. Read "On the Rainy River" in __Things They Carried__ (pages 39-61).

OUTLINE your response to the following prompt:
In an essay that synthesizes at least three of the provided sources for support (including Source G: "How to Tell A True War Story"), take a position that defends, challenges, or qualifies the claim that the memoirist’s commitment to the truth is of absolute importance in memoir writing. Your outline should lay out what your thesis sentence would be, how you'd divide your position into subtopics, and what support (which sources + specific quotes) you would use to back up each subtopic.

Read the following sample response to Source A from the Memoir packet.
Write a paragraph following the same question over your assigned source. ===For Homework: Read "How to Tell a True War Story" (pages 67-85) and write a well-developed and well-organized paragraph that exposes how this particular source (Source G: Tim O'Brien) would respond to the following statement: A memoirist's commitment to the truth is of absolute importance in memoir writing. Due in class April 7, 2010===

HOMEWORK for March 30, 2010
Read AND annotate packet of short articles on advertising. If you did not previously read carefully the article "The Merchants of Cool," be sure you have done so before class. For each source, be able to determine the following: Audience Tone Purpose Claim Ethos Logos Pathos NOTE: If you did not yet write the analytical essay comparing the rhetorical strategies in the letters back and forth between Coca Cola and Grove Press (due two class periods ago), be sure to complete this homework grade!

====Attached is the power point with model response to "A Wind from the North." Use it as reference when composing your own response to the question: How is the uncle characterized in Bill Capossere's "A Wind from the North."====

Homework for March 3 - Write a 500 word personal essay inspired by any of the journal entries to date and/or the individual "This I Believe" essays we read/you listened to in class.

Complete the following questions to help me get to know you at the beginning of the semester:
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