Happy Holidays!

"All you need is love."

                                                          -- The Beatles

1.  INTERACTIVE READER -- I asked you to bring this so we would have it available upon our return from vacation.   Extra credit opportunity.

2.  SATIRE ESSAY -- If you have not done so, please turn in your hard copy to me.

3.  Dickens' Protest

Have a wonderful and safe vacation!

SATIRE ESSAY

"But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- . . . . as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely . . . ."

                                                                        -- from A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

1.  INDEPENDENT READING -- Begin at the bell.  

2.  NOTE:  Tomorrow please bring your copy of the INTERACTIVE READER which you checked out with your textbook at the beginning of the year.

3.  SATIRE ESSAY -- Before I collect all essays, I would like some of you to volunteer to share your essay with the class.  This is an extra credit opportunity!

4.  EXPERT PROJECT -- tomorrow you will have the class period to work on your expert project.

SATIRE ESSAY

"But you were always a good man of business, Jacob," faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.  "Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing his hands again.  "Mankind was my business.  The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business.  The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"

                                                                    -- from A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

1.  INDEPENDENT READING -- Please begin at the bell

2.  WRITER RESPONSE GROUPS --  Today you have a hard copy of your satire essay and you will be sharing what you have written with your group.  You will receive a handout which very explicitly explains what you are to do with your group.  I will collect the handout at the end of the class.

3.  HOMEWORK:  For homework you will revise your essay if necessary, considering the feedback that you received from your group.  Refer to your notes that you were asked to record during this activity.  Tomorrow I will collect ALL revised, final drafts of essays.  Make sure that you also have shared your essay with me on Google Docs.

SATIRE ESSAY

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

                                                                                                            -- Shakespeare

1.  INDEPENDENT READING -- Please do a little bit of reading this morning while your netbook powers up.  

2.  SATIRE ESSAY -- Today is the last day in class to work on your satire essay.  I indicated that you should be working on the essay for homework as well as in class.  Make sure that you share your essay with me on Google docs.  Please bring a hard copy of your essay to class tomorrow.  You will be sharing your essay in a writing response group tomorrow and then you will turn it in to me.

      NOTE:  If you anticipate having difficulty printing out your essay, please see me during lunchtime.

The library, of course, is also available.  

GEARUP Presentation

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under the heaven

                                                                    Ecclesiastes 

     

1.  GEARUP PRESENTATION today

2.  NOTE:  We will work on the satire essay tomorrow.  It is due Wednesday.  Please share your essay with me on google docs (abaltrushes@gmail.com).

SATIRE ESSAY

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

                                                                                             William Shakespeare

1.  INDEPENDENT READING -- Please have your books open and do a little bit of reading this morning while waiting for your netbooks to power up.

2.  WRITING A SATIRE ESSAY -- You are using a variety of satirical techniques in your writing, e.g., verbal irony, hyperbole, exaggeration, and figurative language.  Another device is used when we thoughtfully select vocabulary to produce a particular effect.  When we select a word because of the associations that come to mind with the word, we are interested in the CONNOTATION of the word.  As you write, carefully consider the words you use to create your desired effect.

       
Example:  "tree-hugger" connotes a radical, highly enthusiastic environmentalist and is

                                       used to mock such individuals.

                                       

3.  TODAY -- You are quietly writing your satire essay.  Be sure to have an introduction that introduces the issue and that also states a thesis.  In each of your body paragraphs you are thoroughly discussing reasons that support your thesis.  You should have 4 reasons.  Write a conclusion which not only sums up the points that you have made but provides additional commentary on the significance of what you have written. The length of your essay should be a minimum of TWO DOUBLE SPACED pages.  

This essay is due by WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19th.  Please work on this for homework.  You will have one final in-class day on TUESDAY.  Name this document Per 2 or 3 Satire Essay.  NOTE:  A GEARUP Presentation is scheduled for Monday.

SATIRE ESSAY

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.  On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

                                                                                                 -- William Shakespeare

 

 

 

1.  INDEPENDENT READING  --  Please begin at the bell. 

 

2.  Example of student satire essay.

 

3.  SATIRE ESSAY -- For homework last night I asked you to write an introduction to your satire essay.  Today, before you begin writing the body of your essay, list at least 4 reasons that support your thesis.  For example:

 

THESIS: There should be a more liberal policy on school campuses regarding student cell phone 

               use.

             

REASON #1:   Parents should be able to contact their child at any moment throughout the day 

                                     and vice-versa

REASON #2:   If a student is bored in class he or she can make contructive use of their time by

                                     surfing the internet or otherwise using their phone.

REASON #3:   Students' social life is important and they should be given every opportunity to

                                      develop their interpersonal social skills by accessing social networks

REASON #4:   Our world today expects individuals to be technology savvy and cell phones 

                                      increase our knowledge.

3.  NOTE:  Tomorrow you will be writing in class.