Do Now: in your JOURNAL Have you ever found yourself in a completely new environment? Though you may have viewed pictures or a brochure depicting the location, suddenly you are taking it all in---in person! What was that experience like? Were you comfortable or uncomfortable? Overwhelmed or pleasantly surprised? Disappointed or overjoyed? Explain your experience in a quick write.

Add to your NOTEBOOK Allusion: a reference to a well-known person, event, or place from history, music, art, or other text.

Reading Pico Iyer’s “Where Worlds Collide” As we read, mark the allusions in the notes section. Think about where else in the world you have heard of these references. What is the effect of these allusions?

Practice Deconstruction of Prompt pg. 52 Subject Speaker Type of Essay Task Hints

TAG statement frames T: Title A: Author G: Genre In the __(genre)___, “___(title)____,” __(author)__ shows/conveys…. __(author)_’s _(genre)__ , “___(title)____,” allows one to see…. “___(title)____,” a __(genre)___ by __(author)_, supports/proves the idea that… Use HANDOUT

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Do Now: Write in your Notebook Colon: Sets off a series in a list, after a complete sentence. The picnic supplies are ready: paper plates, napkins, utensils, cups, and ice. Semicolon: Separates two complete sentences when one begins with a transitional word (however, then, etc) Everyone is ready for a picnic; however, the rain has started.

Combine these sentences The blue skies they saw on TV are scarcely visible from here. It is just smoggy haze, billboards, and gray streets. They can see the familiar signs of Hilton, Hyatt and Holiday Inn. Further out, the City of Angels awaits them.

Parenthetical Expressions Give extra information – add flavor, a tidbit of information, or an extra thought- into a sentence—usually not in parentheses strangely. They are NOT essential to the sentence. The headmistress had been in India, I suppose, fifteen years ago. Strawberry jam, for instance, doesn’t make a good spaghetti sauce.

Appositives A type of parenthetical expression A NOUR or NOUN Phrase placed next to another noun, usually to help identify it or give more information about it.

Appositive or Parenthetical? Uncle Charlie, when he was told about the escaped fleas, broke out in a blush. The hangman, a grey-haired convict in the white uniform of the prison, was waiting beside his machine. Cobras, although they are essentially moody, like an occasional chuckle.

Appositive or Parenthetical? We spotted Tom Hanks, the movie star, at the cafe yesterday. The tone of her letter, however, brought tears to Fang’s eyes. "My father,  a funny man with a subversive wit, is trying to decide which of his eight children he will take with him to the county fair."

Go to your paragraph about Pico Iyer’s essay Go to your paragraph about Pico Iyer’s essay. Add in a parenthetical expression. Exit Slip: In Journal