1.
BOTH summer reading novels. They must be ANNOTATED. If you had an
electronic book, your annotations must be either typed (and emailed to me ) or handwritten
2. Email me the essay on The Things They Carried.
3. Email me the outline for On Writing.
4. TWO submitted blog posts. Posts must be submitted by 8:00am on the first day of school.
MY EMAIL ADDRESS- elissa.fadlalla@paca.com.br
NOTE: If you do not have ALL of your summer work completed by the first day of school you will be asked to drop the class. If you "forget" to bring something you will be asked to drop the class.
2. Email me the essay on The Things They Carried.
3. Email me the outline for On Writing.
4. TWO submitted blog posts. Posts must be submitted by 8:00am on the first day of school.
MY EMAIL ADDRESS- elissa.fadlalla@paca.com.br
NOTE: If you do not have ALL of your summer work completed by the first day of school you will be asked to drop the class. If you "forget" to bring something you will be asked to drop the class.
Current
Events-Summer Assignment
Please read two current event articles from the following websites and for each write a two paragraph rhetorical analysis evaluating the way the author uses language to communicate his/her message. Was he/she effective? What devices did he/she use?
Your analysis must be posted on our class blog, The Collogquium. To post your analysis go to blogger.com and sign in, then enter the blog and click "new post."
MAKE SURE to NUMBER your blog in the title. For example - #1______________. Please start numbering your posts with #1, and then your second post #2, and so on. If you do not number your blog post you will NOT receive credit. You also need to include a link to the source that you referred to in your analysis. There is an EXAMPLE of a blog post on The Colloquium.
THESE SITES WILL BE ACCEPTABLE:
http://www.salon.com/
http://www.economist.com/
http://www.theatlantic.com/
http://harpers.org/
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/
http://www.newyorker.com/
http://www.slate.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/
Please read two current event articles from the following websites and for each write a two paragraph rhetorical analysis evaluating the way the author uses language to communicate his/her message. Was he/she effective? What devices did he/she use?
Your analysis must be posted on our class blog, The Collogquium. To post your analysis go to blogger.com and sign in, then enter the blog and click "new post."
MAKE SURE to NUMBER your blog in the title. For example - #1______________. Please start numbering your posts with #1, and then your second post #2, and so on. If you do not number your blog post you will NOT receive credit. You also need to include a link to the source that you referred to in your analysis. There is an EXAMPLE of a blog post on The Colloquium.
THESE SITES WILL BE ACCEPTABLE:
http://www.salon.com/
http://www.economist.com/
http://www.theatlantic.com/
http://harpers.org/
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/
http://www.newyorker.com/
http://www.slate.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/
1. Read and annotate The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.
2. Write a 2-3 page essay (MLA format) answering this question: What did Tim O'Brien gain by serving in Vietnam? What did he lose? Support your opinions with passages from the text. Make sure to cite ALL passages correctly.
3. Read and annotate On Writing by Stephan King.
4. Write an outline each chapter, (C.V., Tool Box, On Writing, On Living: A Postscript) noting in the advice and concepts King presents. The outline must be typed and in MLA format. The outline may be in bullet format and you may use both phrases for your bullets or full sentences. Make sure to cite the page number your referring to.
Where to get the books:
Buy The Things They Carried or borrow a copy from PACA. If you borrow a copy you must write your annotations on post-its. There is also a free online PDF file available at
http://corysnow.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/ttc-full-text.pdf
Buy On Writing- it is available on amazon in a print version and a kindle version. There is also a free online PDF file available at
http://biblioteka.teatr-obraz.ru/files/file/English_cinema/Stephen_King_On_Writing.pdf
If
you are using the pdf file you can keep an electronic file of your annotations.
How to Annotate:
How to Annotate:
