Descriptive Writing Assignment

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Portfolio Grade

Final AP portfolio assignment:                        Name: _____________________________

For your final grade, you will need to turn in a folder containing the following assignments (listed below). Each assignment is followed by a point value adding up to 100 total points.  Note: there is possible extra-credit to earn.

Narrative writing   (10 pts.) __________

Descriptive writing  (10 pts.) ________

Process analysis   (10 pts.)  __________

Example  (10 pts.)  __________

Definition (10 pts.)   __________

Classification (10 pts.)  __________

compare/contrast (10 pts.)  __________

cause/effect  (10 pts.) __________

argument/persuasion (10 pts.) _________

Senior exit speech  (10 pts.) __________

Rhetorical modes chart ____________ (10 extra-credit points)

Total: 100 points     ______________

Day 2: Descriptive Writing

Today we will read our second descriptive writing piece: "Victor's Hall" by Lydia Millet on page 263
and answer questions #1,2, and 4 ONLY--if you did not finish yesterday's questions on the piece by Zora Neale Hurston you may do so as well

*Tomorrow you will be asked to create a draft of a descriptive writing piece of your own

Descriptive Writing:

1. Add on the titles of the 2 descriptive writing pieces that we will be reading over the course of the next two days.
2. If you haven't filled in the column for the 2 narratives from last week, please do so.
3. Your narrative piece is now past due.
4. Today we will read:

Monday--off
Tuesday--"How it Feels to be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston on page 188 and questions #1,2, and 4 that follow
Wednesday--"Victor's Hall" by Lydia Millet on page 263 and questions #1,2, and 4 that follow
Thursday--creating your own descriptive writing piece
Friday--"catch-up"/senior breakfast day

Today we will spend the first 20 minutes writing narratives based on one of the pictures below. For choice #1, begin however you choose. For choice #2, rewrite the sentence and go from there.

narrative ideas

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sentence starters

Narrative writing assignment

Narration #2: "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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After reading “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” answer the following questions on your own paper.

1. How does Sedaris’s selection of detail in the first paragraph establish a humorous tone?

2. Describe at least one example of hyperbole in the essay. What is the effect created through

exaggeration?

3. Identify examples of Sedaris’s ethnic references. What is their effect in the essay?

4. Describe an instance each of irony and understatement. How do they help to create humor in

the essay?

5. Explain the effect of the sarcastic remarks of the French teacher.

Ted Talk with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Short-response: (take some notes during the video)

Explain: What is the danger of the single-story?

1. Give some specific examples and the effects they had on the author. 
2. How did she "overcome" this danger?

Write about 2-3 paragraphs for your response.

Rhetorical modes

click here for the chart link: rhetorical modes chart

• Go to page 17 after making your chart in your notes
• Read 'To My One Love" together as a class 
• Complete the 5 questions that follow on page 21. 
• Fill out the summary section of your chart as well.

mult choice/question 2

First we will the 3rd passage (page 198) and go over questions 26-24 together---if you have not finished the rest at this point do so over the weekend and I will give the answers on Monday.

Second, we will look at writing question #2 (page 214) and review how to write the rhetorical analysis. (remember more writing strategies does not equal a better grade)

n the second essay, you’ll be presented with an excerpt from a nonfiction piece that advances an argument and asked to write an essay analyzing the rhetorical strategies used to construct the passage’s argument. You will also be given some orienting information—where the passage was excerpted from, who wrote it, its approximate date, where it was published (if at all), and to whom it was directed.

Important rhetorical devices and strategies
Here are some examples

Help for the Multiple Choice..

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Today we will attempt to go over a section (#14-25)---FINISH ALL MULTIPLE CHOICE BY FRIDAY'S CLASS TO GO OVER THE ANSWERS (MEANING AS HOMEWORK IF YOU ARE NOT HERE TOMORROW/DO NOT FINISH IN CLASS TOMORROW)

Here is some last minute help on Q1

One last video: click here
Here are some student samples: click here
basic outline: click here
essay help: click here

Today we will:

*Spend today's classes reviewing how to make a claim (thesis) for our argument and set-up our argument/persuasion essay.
*You will have the rest of today's class to write

Note: tomorrow we will have class to wrap-up anything not finished and discuss/peer-edit in groups

Today we will:

Link to the precis: click

1. Make a source chart deciding which sources to use
2. Watch 2 videos about the scandal
3. Write a 2nd rhetorical precis and share
4. Review the format for an argument essay and outline
5. Essay is due by the end of class on Friday 5/3---tomorrow will be a writing day in class.

video link 1: click here
video link 2: click here

link to the articles: click here