This year is veritably flying by. It's hard to believe that we have just a week and a half before midterms. We have so much yet to do. Below is a list of those things we will do in class prior to midterm reviews.
- We will finish reading and discussing the captivity narratives in your book. Anything we don't read in class you will be responsible for reading for homework. The two narratives are The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano and Narrative of the Captivity, by Mary Rowlandson. Each of these narratives is quite different, but both contain important aspects of the American story. You will be expected to compare and contrast these two narratives in writing.
- You will also turn in your essays on heroism. I hope that you take into consideration the advise I have given you on the ratio of commentary to argument and evidence. Be sure they are finished on time.
- Speaking of essays, you should be writing them in MLA format. I will be reviewing with you the basics of this style of writing.
- I will be reviewing sentence structure and ensuring that you can correct compound, complex and compound-complex sentences.
- I will also expect you to be able to use commas correctly.
- Furthermore, I expect you to distinguish between commonly confused homophones.
- Be sure you have your grammar workbooks handy all week.
- We'll also be doing a lesson in vocabulary and taking a quiz on it, so have your vocabulary workbooks with you as well.
Mrs. SO
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