There will be a couple questions on Melville!
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1. Melville due tomorrow. Can be hand-written
2. CIA due on Friday 3. Test on Emerson (Nature and Self-Reliance) and Thoreau (Walden) will NOT include sections on Dillard and Doyle 4. Rewrite and reflection are due next Monday-- November 4th. 5. Numbers 2 and 4 may change dependent on the weather and PG&E In light of the loss of power experienced by Almaden Valley, students will not be required to type their Melville questions.
How did the essay go today? I'm concerned about the when and whether we will have power this week (especially as PG&E may turn the power off again on Tuesday.) To simplify things, Thursday's test will consist of the two Emerson sections (Nature and Self-Reliance) and one Thoreau section--Walden (NOT Resistance to Civil Government). Dillard and Doyle will NOT be on the test. The Thoreau sections will be in the textbook in class. If you lack access to Thoreau at home because of power issues, come to my tutorial Tuesday or Wednesday (yes, I will open tutorial on Tuesday to students who would like to see the book, NO I will look over your rewrites on Tuesday). Yay shorter test! Again keeping in mind the power situation, you can turn your CIA in on Friday if you want. If the power stays out, we'll talk about a further extension. 1. Your partner paragraphs cannot more than a page. Submit them to Turnitin before you show up to class and remember to analyze how your author constructs an argument using rhetorical strategies.
2. You can turn in extra credit on Friday 10/25 (some of you still haven't signed up for a chapter--I'll be after school for a bit if you still want to). 3. If you get THREE of your rewrites checked by me and IF you have improved enough to get a plus and a stamp, you will get THREE extra points on your AP Binder assignment, leading to you potentially earning three extra credit points in the writing category. 4. Does anyone know how to import (or is it export?) a keynote presentation to a Microsoft powerpoint when I no longer have Keynote on my computer? If you have any clue how to save me, please swing by 6th or 7th period today! Sadly the wrong Thoreau assignment was posted on the Weebly. The test requires you to read excerpts from Walden (which I posted today in the Forms and Docs section). So here's the deal that I am going to make with you. If you turn in the Thoreau questions on Resistance to Civil Government on time today, you will get an automatic 100 percent on this assignment. You will need to read the Walden excerpts but NOT answer the questions. There will be questions on Walden on the test (and the questions from the assignment can direct you to areas to study) and Resistance to Civil Government.
If you have checked your rewrites with me and have earned a plus, please bring them in as they need a stamp too. Sorry for the inconvenience. You can bring them in anytime next week.
The Doyle and the Dillard essays are in the forms and docs section. Remember for each, you need to find purpose, author, occasion, exigence + I added one question for Dillard-- check the end of the essay. I know that finding these four things is difficult so you can be wrong and still earn points if you explain your reasoning (and your reasoning makes sense). Thanatopsis is also posted (poem and questions) and Melville questions are posted. The Melville story is loooong. I posted an annotated version of the story from Slate and I have hard copies you can read (not enough for everyone, sadly) and you can easily find it online for free.
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