English 4 & 4H: 1/24,25/13

Guiding Q

• How can you identify persuasion?

Bell Ringer

• Get out your advertisement and be ready to have it checked.

Activities

• Check ads for a grade.
• Discuss the point of the ads and where we are going beginning next class.
• Students reminded to have the ad every class until we complete the project
• The project begins next class
• Remind students related to the "Declaration of Independence"
• Must be ready for review next class or their will be no review.
• Test in two class days
• Read "A Journal of the Plague Year with special focus on the top paragragh page 585, ""T is a speaking sight."
• Students are assigned to write a minimum of a half page essay. They are to pick a personal experience that has left a lasting image or imprint on their lives. (As an alternative choice, students may pick the experience being described in the reading as though it is their own experience)
• Students are to describe the event/experience and then analyze it.
• The analysis should include things like why it sticks out in their mind; why it's important, what they learned from it; what impact it has had on their life, understanding, behavior; and anything like or related.
• Students are to spend the rest of the time working on the essay or the next vocabulary requirements.