1. Journal 24
Tell me the different between: There, Their, They're, and Two, Too, To
Who ever thinks they have it right, come up to the board!

2. Target: Analyze works of art and create an original written response
Monday, September 29th, 2014
Standards: Integrate and evaluate information; Present findings; Produce clear and coherent writing
Target: Analyze works of art and create an original written response
Work: Vocab words, finish stories (that are due today) Present unit paper
Closing: Students will write down the two stories they want to write their paper on and let us know

3. Vocab words!!
Yayyyyyyyy

4. Art Projects
Please finish up your stories and turn them in to me when you are done…these are due TODAYYYYY
Remember: if you are writing the essay it needs to be AT LEAST a page long and the narrative poem lines
Cash prizes for short stories, essays and poetry: $150 for 1st place, $100 for 2nd place and $50 for 3rd place.

5. Unit paper!! Now lets discuss your unit paper that is DUE FRIDAY!!!
Expository Essay: After reading a myriad of memoirs, compose a well-developed expository essay that discusses how the authors used rhetorical modes to tell his/her stories effectively. Choose two memoirs of choice and then include "Shooting An Elephant.”
Here is the rubric!

6. What s rhetorical modes?
The act of capturing people, places, events, objects, and feelings in words so that a reader can visualize and respond to them.

7. So in other words…
What details (in the stories you choose) make them memoirs?
So remember what a memoir is
It is a collection of memories that an individual writes about moments or events, both public or private that took place in the author's life.