Thursday and Friday & Weekend Homework

3C1

Thursday
-finish handout on Business Writing
-Memo structure and style - note

Friday
-watch new "Monsters" episode
-Memo assignment outline

Weekend Homework
-work on memo - rough copy due Thursday

4U1

Thursday
-finish "The Death Penalty: Justice for None"
-persuasive techniques - note

Friday
**narrative due
-"Forget Price Charming" in Echoes

What should you look for as your perfect match?

Things to think about:

1. What does the author say about personal intelligence? Personality?
2. What is the difference between promotion and prevention personality types?
3. Why does the author suggest matching opposite personality?
4. Are you a prevention or a promotion person?  

Weekend Homework
-start preparing for essay test next Friday

Analysing Evidence in "The Death Penalty: Justice for None"

1.  Go to page 213 of Reading and Writing Strategies

Define emotional appeals, refutation and logic appeals (examples, facts, expert opinions, personal experience).


2.  Identify the following evidence as an example, fact, stat or expert opinion (can be a combination of 2).  Explain your reasoning.

1. Death Penalty is legal in 38 states
2. Thurgood Marshall quote
3.  Joseph Cannon execution
4.  Death Penalty costs 2.3 million
5. 98% of death penalty prosecutors are white.
6.  Micheal Kroll quote
7. Only 5 countries plus the USA execute juveniles
8. Cases of Donald Marshall, David Milgaard and Guy Paul Morin
9. Defense attorneys show up ill prepared or drunk

Death Penalty

Why write editorials?

Monday Sept 25 to Wednesday Sept 27

3C1
-element of fiction #6 - dialogue
-finish "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"

Tuesday
-watch episode of "Monsters"
-work on review

Wednesday 
-quiz: first 3 stories, associated vocabulary, 6 elements
-intro to minor writing assignment #1 - business writing

Monday and Tuesday Homework
-prepare for the quiz

4U1

Monday
-rhetorical devices quiz
-persuasive techniques (overhead)
-notes on persuasive writing
-begin "The Death Penalty: Justice For None"

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wheat kings lyrics

Tuesday
-complete "The Death Penalty"

Wednesday\
-peer editing of narrative and MLA submission instructions

**essays test will be after 6th essay studied in class (we have 2 more to do)

Thursday Sept 21

3C1
-began reading "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"

Weekend Homework
-begin reviewing for Wednesday's short story quiz
-what to review: 5 elements of fiction, the 2 stories we finished and any associated vocabulary words with the stories we read

Wednesday Sept 27 - quiz

4U1
-rhetorical device - short sentences (note)
-last chance rhetorical devices practice quiz (handout - our third practice!)
-final reminders for narrative assignment

Weekend Homeworrk
-work on narrative
-review for rhetorical devices quiz

Monday Sept 25 - rhetorical devices quiz
Wednesday Sept 27 - rough copy of narrative due
Friday Sept 29 - narrative due

Tues Sept 19

3C1
-completed web quest for DB Cooper - minor media assignment
-if not completed by the end of class it is due tomorrow

Homework
-complete unfinished DB web quest
-continue to review and study your elements of fiction

Upcoming Important Dates
-Tuesday Sept 26 -quiz 1 - content: first 6 elements and the first three short stories

Twilight Zone

4U1
-note on loose and periodic sentences
-another rhetorical devices practice handout
-took up questions #1,2,4,8 of "Snapshots: Lost Lives of Women"
-in class worked on #5,6

-for homework answer #7

Upcoming Important Dates
-Mon Sept 25 - rhetorical device quiz
-Wed Sept 27 - rough copy of narrative due

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