9/17/07

English 3

Aim
1. What does your own writing reveal about your values and beliefs?

Launch: In your own opinion, what would make your group's colony the ideal place to live? How would it be different from and similar to where you live right now?

Agenda
1. Get back into your groups to work on your colony project.
2. Turn in reading logs.

Homework: Independent reading. Finish colony project: due Friday.

English 4

Aim
1. What makes a good personal essay and why?

Launch: What made writing your poem of identity difficult? What was easy about the assignment? What do you think you can take from the experience that could apply to your personal essay?

Agenda
1. In groups, read the packet of essays and choose the one you think is best.
2. Answer the following questions about that essay:

a. What point is the author trying to make about himself/herself?
b. What positive qualities are revealed about the author?
c. What makes this essay exceptional? (i.e. Why did your group choose it as the best?)

3. Turn in reading logs and poems of identity.

Homework: Independent reading.

AP

Aim
1. What are the requirements for the longform?
2. What are the requirements for a good thesis statement?

Launch: Read the following prompt and write a thesis:

Writers often highlight the values of a culture or a society by using characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender, race, class, or creed. Choose a play or novel in which such a character plays a significant role and show how that character's alienation reveals the surrounding society's assumptions and moral values.

Agenda
1. Discuss launch.
2. Continue working on longform.

Homework: Read chapter 4 of Sound and Sense and begin working on the essay suggested at the end of the chapter. Due Friday.