Monday, October 7, 2019

October 7 - 11


It's another four-day week! You've turned in your first rhetorical analysis essay, and while I'm grading it, we'll practice deciphering tone from a variety of passages and get back into Frederick Douglass.

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TUESDAY: Journal warm-up. Frederick Douglass review, reading. Songs of slavery and their meaning. Tone activities: exercises and examples as a whole class and in groups.

DueRevise and edit the Kelley rhetorical analysis passage and upload the final draft to Turnitin.com by Monday, October 7 at 11:00 p.m. 

Homework: Study for Current Events Quiz covering TheWeek.com e-mails from Sunday, October 6, through Wednesday, October 9. (Click here for a Word doc with all of the e-mails for the quiz.)

WEDNESDAY: Holiday - Yom Kippur. No school.

FRIDAY: Journal warm-up. Current Events Quiz. Class analysis of Queen Elizabeth I's Speech to the Troops at Tilbury. Notes: figurative language, syntax. Reading: Ralph Ellison passage.  

Due: n/a

Homework: Please read the rest of Chapter 9 and Chapter 10 of Frederick Douglass. We're almost done with the book!

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