Check the comments on your Narratives and
Descriptions
 Narrative—3
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points
1 for establishing
and maintaining
POV
1 for having a Point
1 for choosing a
Pace
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For those of you who
did not get this score,
a narrative must have
a character, conflict,
rising action, and
climax—it must be a
story.
 Description—6
points
1
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1
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for sight imagery
for smell details
for sound details
for taste details
for touch details
And if all details lead
to the same dominant
impression—one more
point.
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Excellent Story
Tellers!
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Staying on Topic!
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Choosing appropriate
POV for Rhetorical
Situation
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Having your Pace
highlight your point
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Expanding on your
Descriptions
Few grammatical
errors
Having a point
Strengths
Needs
 For
a Research Paper:
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If it did not happen to you—do not use first
person.
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Make sure that your third person POV is focusing
on what you want your major point to be—
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Ex. If you want to point out that bone marrow
transplants can save lives, don’t spend most of the
narrative on what your character did all day before
the diagnosis of Leukemia.
Your pace should slow at the moment where your
point becomes most obvious.
 Basic
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Description:
I was red with embarrassment.
 Next
Level Description:
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A fire burned beneath my cheeks spreading
splotchy flames across my freckles, leaving them
looking like black burn holes on a red sheet.
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Bitter bile was rising in my mouth, causing my
acidic saliva to choke me. It fought the lump in
my throat as I tried to swallow the pill of poison
her words had fed me.
 If
you turned it in, you may revise your
narrative and/or description.
 Resubmit
into the Revision 1 area for the
given essay.
 Due
by the end of the week
 Definition—4
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pts
1 for a working
definition
1 for a discussion of
what your thing IS
NOT
1 for examples
1 for a historical
and/or etymological
discussion of the
word/issue
 Causal
Analysis—3
pts
1 for the primary
causes of your issue
 1 for a discussion of
other things that
affect it
 1 for examples of
the effects of your
issue.
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And yes, you’ll get to revise these,
too—next week.
aka Illustration
(and not the drawing kind)
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The act of giving an example!
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What it does:
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When its used:
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Clarify what you are saying
To support an assertion or point
They must be:
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Real
Specific
Clearly Introduced and connected to the claim
Relevant
Love
 Success
 Freedom
 Good
 Moral
 Democracy
 Racism
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Vague
Spoon
 Table
 Velvet eye patch
 Nose ring
 Sinus mask
 Green
 Hot
 Walking
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Real
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Furniture
Chair
General
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Rocking Chair

Lazy Boy Recliner

Lime green velvet LaZ-Boy rocker recliner
with a cigarette burn
on the left arm
Specific
 Use
introductory phrases such as:
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Take __________ as our example
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Two examples will do to ________________
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For example…
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Of these….
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To show how ___________________ works, one
can look at…
What is wrong here?
My stepfather is a grumpy old person.
For example, he contributes money every
year to the Audubon fund. He serves as an
usher in church and is a Scoutmaster for my
half-brother’s troop.
How would you fix it?
 “Mirror,
Mirror, on the Wall…” by John Leo
(pp. 386-388)
 In a Cornell Note:
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What is Leo’s point?
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Find three illustrations (examples) that support
that point
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Determine what introduction he used for those
examples
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Decide why the examples are relevant
 Make
your plan
 What
is the assignment?
 How
long will each of you talk?
 How
will you encourage each other to use the
time well?
 What
 Report
 What
is the order for discussion?
out:
was your group’s consensus?

Read “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a
Girl Named Maria” by Judith Ortiz Cofer (pp 375380)
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In a Cornell Note:

What is Leo’s point?
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Find three illustrations (examples) that support that
point
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Determine what introduction he used for those
examples
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Decide why it is relevant
1.
If you shop wisely, you can save large amounts of
money.
2.
My mom and dad hear and see things differently.
3.
Sometimes imperfections are beautiful.
4.
Not being covered by medical insurance can be
disastrous.
5.
My boy/girlfriend always thinks of romantic things to
do.
 What
makes a snowy landscape beautiful?
 What
are some elements of authority against
which teenagers rebel?
 Why
do most people admire firefighters?
 What
makes national parks so valuable?
 What
are the worst aspects of homelessness?
 Being
 The
a dentist requires ultimate patience.
POTUS is not always a role model.
 Email
is one of the great inventions of the
last decade.
 Modern
 Saying
medicine has created miracle cures.
good-bye can be hear wrenching.
It seems as though the idea of arch-enemies has existed
forever. There are so many examples from history, literature,
and movies to draw upon. The first historical arch-enemies
that come to mind are Caesar and Brutus. Though
immortalized in a Shakespearean play, this real-life duo from
the Roman Empire moved from friends to enemies to the death
of Caesar. Fictionally, Lex Luthor and Superman face off on
the big screen, Tom and Jerry face off on the small screen, and
Jekyll and Hyde face off in one body! The list could go on and
on. One could say that an arch-enemy is a consistent
archetype in fact OR fiction.