September 13, 2010
When you come in…
Turn in 54321 poster.
 New Vocab
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 Choose 8 of the vocabulary words below
and copy them in your flip book.
○ melancholy, nostalgia, despair, objectivity,
enumeration, idyllic, vulgar, escapism,
exposé, bane, intricacies, reminisce, dexterity,
pensive, pedantic, imagistic, nebulous
 Begin defining them.
 You will have a quiz over the terms on
Friday.
Muddy Paws
Outside Reading Assignment – wiki (AP Resources)
 Current Events (return folders) – wiki (AP Resources)
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How to highlight (by hand, preferably) & label (annotate)
Rhetorical terms
POV – Add # to include which one
Where to find articles
MLA heading in top left corner and MLA source citation at
bottom of first page
 How often?
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Lots of Writing Process Questions
“Once More to the Lake”
Assignment
Since the Final Thought question was
the only part that you were not allowed
to collaborate on, it was worth more
points (28).
 Student Samples
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Your Notes on Purpose &
Audience
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While I come around to check your notes, talk with
the people at your table about the notes you took.
Add to your notes if you missed something.
What are some things you heard people at your
table are the most important things to know about
purpose & audience?
 Everyone should write down what is said.
 Purpose: inside vs. outside the writing situation;
hypothesis leads to purpose, purpose leads to discovery
draft, thesis statement makes a restricted, unified, and
precise assertion about your subject
 Audience: self, others who help you choose subject and
coach through the writing process, those who have not
thought too much about how writers work and who want
something interesting and important
Determining Your Purpose
In the Writing Process section of your spiral,
label the front of one page: Purpose.
 Answer these questions for your diagnostic
essay.
1. What was your purpose when you wrote your
diagnostic essay? Was it ‘outside of the essay
itself’? (e.g. to get a good grade, to complete
the assignment)
2. How did this affect the way you approached
the essay?
3. How could you change your purpose to be
“inside” the writing situation?
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Forming a Hypothesis
No, that’s not a typo.
 Hypothesis:
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 Helps you determine what you need to prove,
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and how you need to prove it.
Guides the creation of a thesis statement
Keeps the essay on-topic
Gives you options for exploring the topic
If you have time, you can choose your
hypothesis by writing a quick ‘discovery draft’ (a
paragraph or two that starts exploring the topic)
Purpose and Thesis
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Once you have established your
purpose, you can start working on the
nuts and bolts of a paper.
 A thesis statement is a sentence that usually
appears in the first paragraph of an essay,
and states the main idea you are going to
develop.
 If you do not have a purpose inside the
writing situation, you have no business
writing a thesis.
Prompt
Defend = agree
Challenge = disagree
Qualify = both agree and disagree
The lines below are from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel
Hawthorne. Write a carefully reasoned essay in which
you defend, challenge, or qualify his statement. Support
your argument with specific references to your reading,
observation, or experience.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to
himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting
bewildered as to which may be true.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter,
Chapter XX “The Minister in a Maze”
Guidelines (Riverside p. 18-19)
Answer the following on your paper.
I.
What are the requirements of your writing project?
a.
b.
Do you understand the assignment?
Do you have definite expectations of what you want to accomplish?
What do you need to know?
II.
a.
b.
Do you understand your subject, or do you need more information?
Have you considered the possible audiences who might read your
writing?
What hypothesis can you use as a working purpose?
III.
a.
b.
IV.
a.
b.
How many different hypotheses can you formulate about the
subject?
Which seems to direct and control your information most
effectively?
What purpose have you discovered for this writing project?
Has your purpose changed as you have learned more about your
subject and audience?
Have you discovered, while working, what you want to do in your
writing?
Analyzing Your Audience
Flip over your Purpose page, label the top
Audience
Answer the following questions about the
diagnostic essay.
1. Who are you writing for?
2. Which audience is most important?
 Teacher
 Peer group
 You
Guidelines for Analyzing your Audience
Who are the readers who will be most interested in your
writing?
I.
a.
b.
What are their age, gender, education, economic status, and social
position?
What values, assumptions, and prejudices characterize their attitude
towards life?
What do your readers know or think they know about the
subject?
II.
a.
b.
III.
a.
b.
c.
IV.
a.
b.
c.
What is the probably source of their knowledge?
Will they react positively or negatively to your subject?
Why will your readers read your writing?
What will they expect to learn?
What will they expect to be told about it?
Will they expect to be entertained, informed, or persuaded?
How can your interest your readers in you subject?
How can you convince them to give your writing a fair reading?
How can you fulfill and enhance their expectations?
How can you catch and hold their attention?
Rhetorical Triangle
Rhetorical Framework
Rhetorical Framework
What prompts the
author to speak at
that time?
To whom is the author
writing? How does the
author appeal to the
audience?
Does the author show his credibility
– that he knows relevant info about
the topic? Is he believable?
What does the author want to
happen? What does the author want
the audience to believe or do?
Does the author offer a clear, reasonable
central idea? Does he develop it with
appropriate reasoning, examples, or details?
Does the author draw on the
emotions and interests of the
audience so they will
sympathize and buy into his
central idea or argument?
Word choice
Sentence structure
“word pictures”
that appeal to
senses
Descriptive language such
as metaphor, simile,
personification, symbol, etc.
8.2 paragraph
TS
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Copy in the
Writing
Process
section of your
spiral.
If there’s still time…
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Review vocabulary words
 melancholy, nostalgia, despair, objectivity,
enumeration, idyllic, vulgar, escapism,
exposé, bane, intricacies, reminisce,
dexterity, pensive, pedantic, imagistic,
nebulous
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Review notes on thesis statements for
tomorrow