Prioritized Work Options: Media Center * I WILL HOLD SENIOR PROJECT-RELATED CONFERENCES WITH EACH STUDENT*  Turnitin.com Deadline by 11:30 p.m.: Argument #1: Publish-Ready Draft: Most Significant MC Lit Theme  Proposal Resubmission  Research Paper Framework (IF YOU DID NOT TURN IT IN)  Resume Revision (Bring originally-graded w/rubric and revised copy)  Annotated Bib and RD of Works Cited  Unit 5 Vocabulary Practice sheets (CTS, S,A,CRW)  Current Event Log work

Homework/Reminders SP Timeline Link  Wednes., Oct. 7: Proposal Resubmission Deadline #1 Closed  Oct. 7: Resume Revisions Session (Bring originally-graded w/rubric and revised copy)  Oct. 7: Unit 5 Vocabulary Practice sheets (CTS, S,A,CRW)  Thurs., Oct. 8: Annotated Bib and RD of Works Cited due (mark Easy Bib source/note card change of date)  Thurs., Oct. 8: Peer-review Session: PQP on “Sagging” Paper Draft #1  Fri., Oct. 9 or Mon., Oct. 12: Current Event Rdg Logs Due at End of Cl (2-4 thoroughly completed Log entries required)  Fri., Oct. 9: Republican Debate Clip (MC focus and Ethos, Logos, Pathos appeal)  Thurs., Oct. 22: Library Visitation (Focus: Research Paper-Sent. Outline)  Tues., Oct. 27: Library Visitation (Focus: Research Paper)  Thurs., Oct. 29: Due- Sentence Outline (provided format) and EasyBib Source/Note Cards  Tues., Nov. 3: Library Visitation (Focus: Intro., Body Para.)  Tues., Nov. 17: Library Visitation (Focus: Peer-edit Final Draft)  Thurs., Oct. 22: Book #2: Summer Rdg Chapter Notes submitted to Turnitin

Classwork → Collect Resumes (stapled in this order: REVISED COPY (on top); ORIGINAL COPY (middle); committee-member completed RUBRIC (bottom) → Review Argument #2 “Sagging” and Peer Review Session Peer- review Requirements/ PQPPeer- review Requirements → Unit 5 Vocabulary Review/Practice sheets (CTS, S,A,CRW)/Activity → Current Event Log → Small group meeting (as needed): Annotated Bib and Works Cited

ARGUMENT #2 Argument Paper #2 Focus: Should the government pass the law that states that a male can be fined (made to pay money) if he wears his jeans below his waist in public? This law says a guy can actually get a ticket for wearing his jeans below his waist, thus exposing his underwear. Do you agree or disagree with this law? You will write a persuasive argument using pathos, ethos, and logos to prove your point. Step 1: Prewrite: Plan your paper using the SOAPSTone strategy and include 2-3 examples of Ethos, Pathos, Logos that you will use in your paper to further argue your point. Step 2: Draft 1: Typed; Proper Format; 5 Vocab. Words from units 1-5; Examples of ethos, pathos, logos; 2-3 examples of diction. Step 3: Peer Review

Classwork: Fri., Oct.9, 2015  Analyze Republican Debate (ethos, pathos, logos, fallacies of argument) Analyze Republican Debate

Classwork: Mon., Oct. 12, 2015 → Review/Discuss Critical Reading Question on Alvarez’s “I Want to Be Miss Amer.” Qs 1-8  Read/Annotate Maya Angelou’s “WithoutAnnotate Commercials” (pp.86-89) a. Pre-read: b. During: Annotate c. After: SOAPSTone; Critical Reading Qs; Compare/contrastCritical Reading Qs with Alvarez’s “IWBMA”

Julia Alvarez’s “I Want to Be Miss America” Questions 1-8 (pp.91-96) 1.Where is the Dominican Republic located? 2.How do the father’s words and actions fail to match when choosing his favorite contestants in the Miss America pageants? 3.How does watching the pageants broaden the sisters’ ideas about what they can do and be? 4.Why does Alvarez say that the popularity of exotic, “ethnic” looks in the late ’60s “came too late” for her and her sisters? *Apply SOAPSTone on your own paper

Alvarez Qs Cont’d 5. Why does Alvarez put an explanation point after every word of the contestant’s introduction in paragraph 3? What does this unusual punctuation achieve? 6.In paragraph 4, Alvarez writes, “There they stood, fifty puzzle pieces forming the pretty face of America…though most of the color had been left out.” How does this figurative language reinforce the main idea of her essay? Miss America Pageant How does Alvarez’s concluding paragraph differ in tone from the first paragraph of her essay? What message does this difference in tone convey to the reader? 8.(Add vocabulary and definitions to Vocab. Log): acute, sashayed, inane, aspirations, prodigies, sappy, diaphanous, gratifying, sallow

Research Paper Documents (links) Rationale/Steps/Framework Deadline Checklist Title Formation Annotated Bibliography Format Works Cited (incl link) Bib. (Source) and Note card Format (incl link)