Modes Project:
Directions: You will be reading two essays a week and writing two essays a week using the modes of development for your own personal
writing. These essays are not required to be overly long but should allow you to try different writing voices and modes of development. Each
essay comes from a different chapter in your textbook and has information about how to organize your writing for each mode.
Remember as we work on these assignments during class and outside of class, you must continue to work on your Research Essay.
**If you have committed the grammatical error found in “Grammar in Context” on any of your writings for this class you must complete the
exercise for that chapter. Be prepared for a multiple choice on the due date for the essay of any essay that has is underlined and bolded.
Chapter/pg.#s/Due
Date:
Reading assign
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Oct. 12
Chapter 6
Narrative p. 83—94
o
“Shooting an Elephant” p. 126—132
Oct. 14th
Chapter 7
Description p. 143—
160
Oct. 19th
Chapter 8
Exemplification p.
199—213
Oct 21st
Chapter 9
Process p. 321—337
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o
**“Once More to the Lake” p. 183—189
“Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders
His Power to Alter Public Space” p.
236—241
“The Embalming of Mr. Jones” p. 304—
310
Exercises
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th
Oct. 26
Chapter 10
Cause and Effect p.
321--337
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“Guns and Grief” p. 350—356
--OR—
“A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She
Carries a Gun” p. 357—362
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Comprehension
Purpose and Audience
Style and Structure
Define any words you do
not know in context
Journal Entry
Comprehension
Purpose and Audience
Style and Structure
Define any words you do
not know in context
Journal Entry
Comprehension
Purpose and Audience
Style and Structure
Define any words you do
not know in context
Journal Entry
Comprehension
Purpose and Audience
Style and Structure
Define any words you do
not know in context
Journal Entry
Comprehension
Purpose and Audience
Style and Structure
Define any words you do
not know in context
Journal Entry
Writing workshop
#1 p. 133
#2 or #3 p. 189
#1, #2, or #3 p. 240
#3 p.310
#2 p. 355
--OR—
#1 p. 362 **male students can
Write about the Peaceful Male
carrying a gun in an urban
environment.
Oct. 28th
Chapter 11
Comparison and
Contrast p. 383—402
o
“Two Ways to Belong in America” p.
411—415
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Nov. 3rd:
Chapter 12
Classification and
Division
o
o
“Mother Tongue” p. 477—484
--OR—
“The Ways We Lie” p. 485—494
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o
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Nov. 9th
Chapter 13
Definition p. 505—
517
o
“Fame-iness” p. 532—536
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Nov.18th
Chapter 14
Argument p. 547—
572
Nov. 30th
Chapter 15
Combining the
Pattern p. 706- -713
Nov. th
Chapter 15
Combining Patterns
p. 706—713
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“Declaration of Independence” p. 575—
580
--OR—
“Declaration of Sentiments and
Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention,
1848” p. 581—587
“A Modest Proposal” p. 745—753
“On Dumpster Diving” p. 714—729
--OR—
“The Myth of the Latin Woman” p. 730-737
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Comprehension
Purpose and Audience
Style and Structure
Define any words you do
not know in context
Journal Entry
Comprehension
Purpose and Audience
Style and Structure
Define any words you do
not know in context
Journal Entry
Comprehension
Purpose and Audience
Style and Structure
Define any words you do
not know in context
Journal Entry
Comprehension
Purpose and Audience
Style and Structure
Define any words you do
not know in context
Journal Entry
Comprehension
Purpose and Audience
Style and Structure
Define any words you do
not know in context
Journal Entry
Comprehension
Purpose and Audience
Style and Structure
Define any words you do
not know in context
Journal Entry
Student Choice for Essay #1, #2,
or #3 p.415
#3 p. 483
--OR—
#1 p. 493
#1 or #2 p.535
For both Readings:
Write a declaration of how you
will free yourself from the
Tyranny of those things that
cause you to be unsuccessful
either now or in the future.
You are either facing your
senior or your first year in
college. What types of things
will you strive to do and identify
those things that might get into
the way and how you will
remove them to insure your
success.
#1, #2, or #3 p. 754
#1, #2, or #3 p. 729
--OR—
#1, #2, or #3 p.737