August 16th

Objectives:

• To explore and be able to discuss cultural conflicts
• To identify points of view

Read and take Cornell Notes on  La Relacion and Before They Got Thick pp. 13-18.

August 15th HW

Finish Travel Writing Draft

Answer questions 1-7 PP 11

Travel Writing

Travel Writing

1.            Brainstorm a list of events and/or personal experiences that might make a fun piece of travel writing.

2.            Take 5 minutes to share your lists with your peers.

3.            Select one event from your list and write down, using free writing   and brainstorming techniques, everything you can about it during the remainder of the session.

4.            Use the Elements of Good Travel Writing below to identify any characteristics that are not present in your work or that need to be strengthened.

5.            Rework your ideas into a draft, making sure specific sections of their writings focus on the key elements:

·      
Try for a clever attention grabber (this may be the last or most challenging part).


·      Give enough background information to set the context: Where were you? Why were you there? Why was this event important? 


·      Clearly describe the setting. Use details that appeal to multiple senses. 


·      Clearly describe an important person (alternately, an animal or thing) in the story. Make sure that your reader will understand who the key people are in the article. 


·      Look for places where you can add dialogue. If the event happened a long time ago, dialogue does not have to be direct quotations. Focus on the general comments and feelings in their dialogues. 


·      Mix in personal reflections with the telling of the story.

6.            Bring a completed draft of their travel article to the next class session for peer review.

Elements of Good Travel Writing

Travel writing

• centers on a key event.

• uses background information that builds up  to this event.

•may incorporate research to enhance the background information— even if the writer didn’t know the information things at the time of the trip.

• clearly describes the location and focuses on elements that are key to the story or experience.

• clearly describes any important people so that readers feel as if they know them a little.

• uses dialogue where possible to help the story“ happen” for the reader .

•mixes reflections on the experience with the retelling to help the reader see the importance of the experience.

Mapping the Orgainizational Structure of a text ( CSU Standards)

Mapping the Organizational Structure of a text: Annotation Lesson II

When you do a close reading of a text you must also look at the structure of the text.

You do not simply highly names, dates, places, and the thesis statement.  You must look at the structure of the text to understand a writer’s approach to the content and the tools (rhetorical devices that he/she uses to make their argument.

Mapping the Organizational Structure

·      Draw a line across the page where the introduction ends. Is it after the first paragraph, or are there several introductory paragraphs? How do you know?

·      Draw a line across the page where the conclusion begins. Is it the last paragraph, or are there several concluding paragraphs? How do you know?

·      Think on your own, discuss in groups or a s a class why the lines were drawn where they were. In this activity, thinking and reasoning about organizational structure is more important than agreeing on where the lines should be drawn.

·      Further divide the body of the text into topics ( what each section is about).

·      Write a short description of what each section is a bout, what it says about the topic, and the rhetorical function of the section ( why the writer put it there).

After this is done, answer the following questions:

·      How does each section affect the reader? What is the writer trying to accomplish?

·      What does each section say?  (Paraphrase the main idea of the section) What is the content?

·      Which section is the most developed?

·      Which section is the least developed? Does it need more development?

·      Which section is the most persuasive? The least persuasive?

·      On the basis of your chart of the text, what do you think is the main argument? Is the argument explicit or implicit?

Cluster/Webbing

·      Draw a circle in the center of a blank page, and label the circle with the main idea of the text.

·      Record the supporting ideas of the text in branches that connect to the central idea.

Mapping the Content

·      Draw a picture of the argument, mapping the flow of the text graphically or verbally.

Final Exam is in two parts DUE by 5 PM Monday 1/30 to turnitin.com

Part 1: Question 19 in Review Packets  

Discuss the tension between individualism and community, material vs spiritual, progress vs. preservation.

a. Outline in Roman Numeral Format
b. Essay

2 pages typed 12 point font Times New Roman

Include a title page and MLA format citations( works cited list).
Your originality score should be below 5%.


Rubric is already posted on web site.




Part II. Short answers and vocabulary in class on day of final.

Final Essay Rubric

Rubric: Essay Questions

•          Clearly synthesizes the content from several literary texts dealing with a single issue/theme, paraphrasing the ideas and connecting them to other sources and related topics to demonstrate comprehension
•       Demonstrates a thoughtful, comprehensive grasp of the text/s.
•          Accurately and coherently provides specific examples to support thesis and main ideas from at least two sources. 
•      Thoughtfully anticipates and addresses the reader’s potential misunderstandings, biases, and expectations ( provides counterargument/s). 
•        Provides a variety of sentence types and uses precise, descriptive language.
•        Contains few, if any, errors in the conventions of the English language.

Week 18 Stop Week

Week 18	Class work	Homework
Monday (Print out syllabus and turn in by Tuesday at beginning of class for 100 points extra credit if work turned in on time).	Discussion of El Corido de Gregorio Cortez by Americo Paredes, My heart feels like bursting by Satanta, and Gold Mountain Poems pp.397-399	Study for Final Exam
Tuesday	Finals Review Literary Themes	Study for Final Exam
Wednesday	Finals Review	Study for Final Exam
Thursday	Finals Review	Study for Final Exam
Friday	Finals Review	Study for Final Exam