Please use these academic langauge terms in your upcoming timed essay where appropriate. Please review any of the terms that you are not familiar with. The reader's of your college placement essays will be looking to see that you can use academic language appropriately!
Abstract
Allusion
Analogy
Analysis
Anecdote
Argument
Audience
Cliché
Coherence
Colloquial Expression
Conclusion
Concrete
Connotation
Denotation
Diction
Dialect, Slang, Archaism, and Pretentious Diction
Effect
Periodic Sentence and Cumulative (Loose) Sentence; Interrupted and Balanced Sentence
Repetition
Euphemism
Evaluation
Evidence
Example
Exposition
Fallacy
Figure of Speech: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Understatement, Hyperbole, Paradox
Flashback
Imagery
Inference
Irony
Jargon
Narration
Parallelism
Paraphrase
Person
Persuasion
Point of View
Premise
Purpose
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Week of January 10th
Senior Presentation Guidelines*
The purpose of the Senior Presentation is to tell the story of the Senior Project by synthesizing what was learned from the product creation with the information from the paper. It is your chance to describe what you learned to a group of interested adults and peers.
Guidelines:
· The student should explain the process of creating the product and writing the paper. There should be an introduction, body and conclusion.
· The presentation must include visual or auditory aids such as PowerPoint or Keynote.
· The presentation must be 7 to 10 minutes in length including a question and answer period.
· The presentation should be rehearsed in front of an audience at least three times. You may use note cards or PowerPoint presentation as prompts.
· This is a formal presentation. Students should dress in business attire.
Useful URLS for PowerPoints
USC PowerPoint TipsPowerPoint Tips
Remember to sign up for free LACER PowerPointclass.
Remember you can sign up for free Keynote Tutorials at any Apple Store.
The purpose of the Senior Presentation is to tell the story of the Senior Project by synthesizing what was learned from the product creation with the information from the paper. It is your chance to describe what you learned to a group of interested adults and peers.
Guidelines:
· The student should explain the process of creating the product and writing the paper. There should be an introduction, body and conclusion.
· The presentation must include visual or auditory aids such as PowerPoint or Keynote.
· The presentation must be 7 to 10 minutes in length including a question and answer period.
· The presentation should be rehearsed in front of an audience at least three times. You may use note cards or PowerPoint presentation as prompts.
· This is a formal presentation. Students should dress in business attire.
Useful URLS for PowerPoints
USC PowerPoint TipsPowerPoint Tips
Remember to sign up for free LACER PowerPointclass.
Remember you can sign up for free Keynote Tutorials at any Apple Store.
Monday | Correct Grammar Chapters 1-4 | Review Activities 7 and 8 |
Tuesday | Correct Grammar Chapters 1-4 | Grammar Chapter 5 |
Wednesday LACER PowerPoint | Correct Grammar Chapters 1-4 | Grammar Ch. 5 |
Thursday LACER PowerPoint | Obama Speech Correct Grammar | Grammar Ch. 5 |
Friday Lacer PowerPoint | Correct Grammar | Work on your Presentation |
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Holiday Assignments
1. Complete Chapters 1-4 of Grammar Packet if you have not done so already.
2. If you did not submit your revision of the Unit 3 Timed Exam please do so. I have reopened the window on Turnitin.com
3. Make up an missing work for partial credit.
4. From the Senior Project Survival Guide:
2. If you did not submit your revision of the Unit 3 Timed Exam please do so. I have reopened the window on Turnitin.com
3. Make up an missing work for partial credit.
4. From the Senior Project Survival Guide:
Senior Presentation Guidelines*
The purpose of the Senior Presentation is to tell the story of the Senior Project by synthesizing what was learned from the product creation with the information from the paper. It is your chance to describe what you learned to a group of interested adults and peers.
Guidelines:
· The student should explain the process of creating the product and writing the paper. There should be an introduction, body and conclusion.
· The presentation must include visual or auditory aids such as PowerPoint or Keynote.
· The presentation must be 7 to 10 minutes in length including a question and answer period.
· The presentation should be rehearsed in front of an audience at least three times. You may use note cards or PowerPoint presentation as prompts.
· This is a formal presentation. Students should dress in business attire.
Useful URLS for PowerPoints
Remember to sign up for free LACER PowerPoint
class.
Remember you can sign up for free Keynote Tutorials at any Apple Store.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Senior Projects Papers Due December 6th
Final Draft are due tomorrow December 6th to turnitin.com
Some students will be asked to revise and resubmit to turnitin.com by Wednesday with the changes required in order to pass.
Some students will be asked to revise and resubmit to turnitin.com by Wednesday with the changes required in order to pass.
Week 14
| Day | Class Work | Homework |
| Monday | Peer Review Unit 3 essay | Type your constructed response and submit it to turnitin.com by Wednesday Readers writers notebook check on Tuesday. |
| Tuesday | In class Reflection Essay on Unit 3 | Type your constructed response and submit it to turnitin.com by Wednesday |
| Wednesday | Begin Unit 4 Activity 1 | Activity 2 |
| Thursday G | Activity 3 | Activity 3 reread Grammar Packet Chapter 4 |
| Friday | Grammar Packet Chapter 4 | Grammar Packer Chapter 4 |
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